First 3 Abstract Paintings/Drawings:

 60 Minutes:

This last image that I created on photoshop took me the most amount of time because it was allowed to be whatever I wanted it to be and not being very artistic I didn't really know what to draw. I started by making the entire canvas a light purple because that is my favorite color. Next I began playing with all the different kinds of brushes and textures they make, creating these bubble-like images which could symbolize random thoughts, wishes, desires of people. I wanted these bubbles to pop out of the painting so I chose bold colors that would attract attention.Once I had drawn these bubbles, I decided to fill them in with colors that again would pop out of the picture, giving the largest bubble outlined in a dark purple multiple colors. Before finishing my painting I felt that it was missing some thing so I added some random dots inside the yellow and orange of the largest bubble as well as some random pink squiggles towards the bottom of the painting. Once I had done this, I felt that my painting was finished.

45 Minutes: 

This painting was more difficult than the self portrait to construct because we had to paint a landscape and I wanted to create the image of mountains after mountains, but not in close proximity. The difficulty stemmed from creating the image of "far-away" distance-wise. I could not figure out how to draw the mountains to make them look like they were far away, so I settled for making the mountains look like they were appearing one after another, instead of far apart. I chose the colors before I drew the outline of the mountains themselves, deciding to make the outline of the mountains blue so it would be obvious where they started. I decided to make the mountains in the forefront a dark blue color to show that they were taller than the mountains that I drew behind them. Then I added some white at the peaks of the mountains to further emphasize that they were taller and therefore colder. The green mountains are colored green to show that they aren't as tall and therefore not as cold. Behind these green mountains there are three other colors, a lighter green, light blue and a purple color. The green symbolizes another mountain, the blue is for the sky and the purple is for rocks that might appear in between mountains.

15 Minutes:

This was my first attempt at using photoshop to create anything. Being that we had to draw a self-portrait using the paint tools I didn't really know how to go about drawing my self-portrait. After playing around with photoshop and all of the various tools, I figured out how to create a perfect circle as well as ovals to make my head and eyes. I then used the paintbrush to draw a nose, eyebrows, and a mouth. Then, playing with the different kinds of brushes I found a thicker more feathery brush to draw in my hair. Next, I added various colors to my hair, eyes and mouth to make it look more realistic. The pink on my cheeks was one of my final additions using a round faded brush. Finally, I added the colors red, blue and yellow around my head, emphasizing some of the various emotions that help to characterize me as a person such as yellow for happiness, red for angry, and blue for melancholy.