Mixed Media Artwork

For my quarter 2 project, I wanted to work on a mixed media art. While having many ideas, I knew I wanted it to be based off of Henna, henna is something I am very passionate in and I think the more I do it, the more better I get. Henna is a big aspect to art, henna can be a paste or a design, even though I do both, I wanted to practice more on my drawing designs. I wanted this mixed media project to be something motivational and something to put around the house to show creativity.

For this project, I decided except of doing a canvas that everyone does already, I should do something different. So I chose a wooden board. I painted the whole board Yellow because I wanted something bright. The henna designs were red and green because of the holiday and the quote was black and white. For the wooden board I used acrylic paint, for the red and green henna designs, I used acrylic markers, and lastly for the quote I used black and white watercolor.

The quote in wooden board said “Hold the vision, Trust the Process”. This quote is very meaningful because it talks about holding on to the thought or vision and to just go along with it and this is what I did with this project.

This artwork is different from other work I did because I am only getting better at henna and its a learning process. A new technique I learned was to test out all the products first and go over with a simple draft.

I am very proud that the work came out bright and very neat. Next time I would work on a different concept, to try it out.