Week 7

 Butterfly

Craft

This piece was created using acrylic paint on top of oil pastel, working from a photography taken in the summer of 2010.  The oil pastel was applied onto standard computer paper and allowed to dry before applying the  tribal designs using the acrylic paint.  The prior idea of the piece was to apply acrylic directly onto glass, but then transformed to

Concept

When creating this piece, my intention was to work the tribal designs in to a more realistic styled backdrop.

Composition

For this piece I positioned the butterfly so as to create an asymmetrical format, and used the black, red, and gray colors in the butterfly to contrast to the vivid greens in the backdrop.