Artist Statement

Six Project Sketches

Half-Way Sketch 

Finished Project 

Original Artwork

Artist Statement 

I don’t have any information about the artist. I chose to recreate this artwork because it is a sunset and I love sunsets. This artwork intrigued me more then the other because of how they used and egg and made a sunset over an ocean. I love oceans and sunsets, so I thought it would be fun to recreate this artwork. The artwork symbolizes to me joy. I find joy in looking at the sun. The sun makes me think and sitting at quite location, which I don’t do often makes me have peace when I’m stressed or just need some comfort. It also reminds me of the line “They rode off into the sunset” which makes me think of happy ending and joy. The motion that sense in the colors used in the artwork are joy that comes form the yellow in the sun or “yoke of the egg”. I did not change the color of the sun because I still wanted to display joy in my painting as well. I did change the water to grass and chafed the color to green. I wanted it to be a road leading into the sunset, instead of a stream leading into the ocean. I used the color pallets primary, secondary colors, and tertiary colors. I used acrylic colors because of the texture it has. Its thicker then regular paint but thinner then pastels. I used a paintbrush and canvas. If this were a group project I would make the sun, because I find the sun the most important part of this painting. I feel very successful on this painting because of how mush effort I put into it. I think that the sky worked out really good because that was not my original idea for the sky but it ended to be cool and unique. If I were to do the project again i would add something to the grass to make it a little more unique then it is already. The most difficult part of this project was not mixing up the paint in the process. i learned that when you make a mistake it may not turn out the way you want it to but if you go with it and don’t start over you will see how one mistake can lead to a better painting then you ever imagined.