Edy Wong, Flowertree, photography, 5"x8", 3/29/10, FCS art classroom


You know those pretty little white blossoms that grow on trees during the first few weeks of spring? Well I like these flowers from far away because they make the tree look like its covered in snow. But I've never seen one of these flowers up close. So I picked some that fell on the ground and I decided to arrange a photograph using these flowers. My favorite arrangement was this single flower that I stuck on another tree. So this flower really doesn't grow from this particular tree but it does look cool if it did.

Water Lilies

Edy Wong, Water Lilies, 3/22/10, watercolor and computer paper, FCS art classroom

This is my sixth piece of my concentration. I decided to paint water lilies using watercolor because I thought it would be appropriate. Water lilies in watercolor, get it? ANYWAYS..this piece turned out to be time consuming because I had to add detail to the individual lilies to make them look more realistic. I like using watercolor because even though the paint dried I can still erase most of it with water if I needed to fix some things, which I needed to do a lot with this piece. I added lily flowers that I printed out because I couldn't paint lilies that looked normal so I decided to cut out the flowers and glue them onto the paper.

Flower Collection

Edy Wong, Flower Collection, photography, 16-4"x6" photographs, 3/15/10, FCS art classroom

This is my fifth concentration piece. I decided to take lots of pictures of the same type of flower for this piece because I really liked these flowers in my backyard. I think they are absolutely beautiful and the best way to capture their beauty, in my opinion, is through photography. I wanted this piece to include many photos because I thought it would be interesting to show the flowers from different angles, perspective, etc. and because they were just so pretty I couldn't setting on merely a few pictures. Taking pictures also allowed me to finish this assignment pretty quickly since I was gone for Musicale and was falling behind. Taking pictures also allowed me to capture the flowers' detail and color accurately. Some of the challenges I faced was getting the lighting correct because I took some pictures on a cloudy day (which offered me excellent lighting) and some I took on another day when I was a little sunnier. So some of the lighting didn't match.

Birds of Paradise

Edy Wong, Birds of Paradise, watercolor and acrylics, 14.5"x11", 3/08/10, FCS art classroom

This is my fourth concentration piece. I decided to paint birds of paradise flowers because as I was deciding what to do, I looked out my window and saw these flowers outside in my backyard, and I thought it would be nice to include these bright and beautiful flowers in my concentration. I decided to use watercolor because I figured it would allow me to do it in a faster time, and I wanted to experiment with the blending of watercolors. I also suddenly liked to use watercolors. I don't know why, since I have never really liked to use watercolors in the past. I tried to incorporate as many colors as possible to make these flowers bright and special. I painted the flowers with colors that are slightly different from their natural colors (like the stems) because I thought that it would add an interesting touch to them, and I wanted to experiment with more abstract and creative elements. This piece is pretty successful in my opinion, and I got the highest score out of all my other concentration pieces so far, and it's kinda funny when you consider how late I waited to start this piece. I am definitely going to use watercolor as my medium on later pieces now that I found out I like it. I'll post the pic later since I forgot to bring my camera.