Diving Into Acrylics: Week 7 of 8

Starting a “final project”

Photos by the author of the objects for her still life project and the first step of her “final project” collated in Canva.

For the final two classes of our 8-week beginner’s acrylics class (see the full series on this class here), our instructor let us have both classes (a full 4 hours) to work on a project of our choosing. As we had figured out through the course, 2 hours often wasn’t enough time to finish a project and she wanted to make sure that we had time to come back and get help from her during the last session to finish our “big project”. She hesitated to call it a final project since we weren’t being graded or anything like that.

I really considered how I wanted to use my two final classes. Before the seventh class, I decided that as much as I wanted to try out some space art, I should probably use this opportunity to work on the basics that I had signed up for this class. Therefore, I figured my two options were either a still life or a portrait. As much as I loved how my monochrome and even full-color portrait turned out, I felt a little more confident with still-lifes and so I began scouring for still-life objects around my house.

As I had learned the hard way in my last attempts at still life for this class, picking simple objects with only a few colors really helps set you up for success. She had suggested 2–3 objects for the previous still life and so I decided to go for 3 since this was a bigger…