Art Through 2016

Sometimes it's hard to see if your style has changed or if your art has improved. By viewing all of your works side by side it's a lot easier to spot the transformation. It's fun to walk down memory lane. This is most of my art through 2016:

My artworks from February and March were meant to be part of a portfolio to apply to art school. I had put a lot of thought behind each piece. The four skeletons from March I called "It's What's on the Inside" and were suppose to represent; that you cannot judge a person based on how they look but only from who they are. The four different plants, flowers, leaves, branches and cacti, tried to impersonate different types of personalities. 

The first time I ever tried gouache was in April 2016 and I fell in love at once. My parents gave me some paints for my birthday and I had to get started right away. The day after my birthday I did some small studies of Hayao Miyazaki's movie "Spirited Away" in gouache. 

I decided that art school, and an art education, wasn't really what I want in life. The next couple of months I did a lot of thinking and not a lot of painting. 

My piece from August, the panda butts, was a gift for my brother. He, and his girlfriend, wanted something a bit cheeky with a color explosion for the background. Playing around with this colourful mess was loads of fun and I had to experiment more.

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Coloured pencils: Faber-Castell

Gouache: Royal Talens

Watercolour: Royal Talens