Illuminated letter

This is my illuminated letter. It had to look medieval, like in books drawn by monks from that time.

I decided to use a lot of colours from nature, like green and brown.

I personally think it looks pretty good, but it's not really medieval.

The branches surrounding the letter aren't very bright. That is because I first made this letter in gray with a normal pencil. But then my teacher said we had to colour it, and I didn't really have time to colour the branches too, so I only coloured very softly.

I scored a 7.5 for it, so I'm happy

My drawings

A few days ago we had to make drawings of things using perspective and shadows in art class.

First we had to make a series of drawings of an apple, every drawing another bite was taken from it.

I thought I did the first drawings pretty good, but the last ones were a bit weird.

After we finished that we were allowed to draw other things, I tried to draw an orange.

It looked pretty good, but the shadows were not so good. I think I also could have done better on the texture of the orange. I tried to draw it another time, and it looked a little better.

Then I made the drawing you see in the picture above. It are just some random objects from my pencilcase.

I think I did pretty good and I'm proud of it.(If you don't look at the "pencil sharpener" in the bottom right.)

Then we also had to make an drawing of a ball or fruit on black paper with white crayons.

I choose to draw a simple ball. It looked fine but I did the shadows wrong.

My bread painting!!

Here is a picture of my painting of a bread.

The bread has salad, chicken and a slice of tomato on it. First my bread had only one layer of salad, but then you couldn't see the difference between the chicken and the bread. I added another layer of salad, and now it looks fine.

First, I wanted to make a Roman pillar under my bread. I drew it and then started to colour it. Unfortunatly I dripped black paint on it. I couldn't get it off, so I mixed the colours of the pillar(white and lightbrown) with the black, luckily, it turned into gray.

So I made a rock, it's a bit boring and simple but I thought it would do fine. 

I didn't do a very good job on the colours. I forgot to add shadow on the mountains and bottom layer of salad is a bit weird coloured.

Also my painting is a bit boring, because of all the gray, but it does make my bread jump out some more.

(Lets say its a reference to the battle of Hamburger Hill, my father told me about that.)

Johannes Itten

Johannes Itten was a Swiss painter, creator and teacher.
He was born on 11 november 1888 in Südern-Linden, and died on 27 may 1967 in Zürich.
In 1938, he had to leave Germany and went to Amsterdam.
After that he became the leader of the Kunstwerbeschule in Zürich.

Johannes Itten

In 1966, he got a prize from a Dutch paintfactory named Sikkens, the name of the prize was the Sikkens-prize, for colour and space.

Itten's colourwheel

He was the inventor of a new color theory, with primary, secondary and tertiaire colours.
If you mix two primary colours, you get a secondary colour.
If you give a secondary colour a tint of a primary colour, you get a tertiare colour.


This is my self-made colourwheel. We had to make it in art class.
I used paint, because we had to.
I think i did pretty well on the left side of it, but on the right side I failed at the violet colours.
Also, now I see it like this, I reversed the orange colours.
But I think I did pretty well with green.
I got a 7 for it, so I'm happy.

Bank note

This is my banknote I made for the art lessons.
We had to use East-Indian ink.
We weren't allowed to use colours, only black.
The assignment was to make a new banknote, we could make everything we want, I chose to make some sort of tentacles.
There are some totally black parts in my banknote. On that places I dropped some ink, and I decided to make it all black.
I filled up the background with dots, after my teacher said so.
Personally I think i did pretty well, I'm only not that good with ink.