Pumpkins of the Shadows

My goals for this artwork was to make it look as real as possible and to have my pumpkins emerge from the shadows. I accomplished this by darkening the paper and erasing away the light and adding chalk for a brighter white. My artwork was about shadows and bringing forth an object out of the darkness. The most difficult part of this work was making the stems look real and bring them dimension rather than flatness. I met that challenge by focusing on making it more alive. My artworks works the best with the small skull in the front and the curves the stems formed on the pumpkins. It draws your eye right to my artwork. In my next painting I can use the shadows and certain moments of light bring my painting to life. Janet Fish was a good mentor with her work by giving me ideas on how to make things have definition. Edward Hopper was another artists who helped give me ideas on how to emerge things from shadows and give bold figures in my work. If I had a do-over I would probably add another stem to my drawing so I can make the my work stand out even more. I feel best about the skull emerging from the shadows. I thought I was able to draw people into my work and focus on the details and lights and shadows that were created. I believe this was the cherry on top of my artwork!