My assignment is to paint a landscape that has a foreground, middle ground, and background. My goal is to show there is more detail in the foreground, and it will progressive lessen and colors will become lights as the viewer looks to the background. I will accomplish this by choosing a photo with these aspects and painting exactly what I see rather than adding detail to everything.

Here is the photo I will be painting. As you can see, the hills and trees in the background have much less detail than the trees in the foreground, making this
an acceptable photo.

Here is my painting the the landscape. The photo made it appear lighter than it actually is. This is a successful painting because you can clearly see the depth of the trees in the foreground to the hills in the background. Of course, the painting also looks like the photo I had, which is a positive aspect. 

My assignment is to create a pastel and charcoal portrait of myself, but it will be so blurred to where the veiwer knows its a face because of the shape and form. My goal is to use these two elements to create extremly blurred portraits, only recognizable as a face by common areas of shadows and higlights. I will do this by not paying attention to detail and using the ipad to transform my face into one that's blurred.

For my first drafts, I took a photo of myself and used an app to blurr my face. I them turned the ipad upside down so that I wouldn't be focused on drawing my face, but rather focused on the movement of the lines and the hilights and shawdows. I tried to accomplish drawing myself in way so that you only know it's a person but not specifically me. I'd improve by blurring the edges between the dark hair and the skin, to make the change less defined.

Here are my finals of the two blurred portraits. These accomplish my goal because although they do not actually look like a face, the veiwer sees a face within the blurred colors and shades. These are successful portraits because I used highlights and shadows correctly to create portraits that resemble a face, even though no detail was added.