The challenge of this painting project is to paint something from an unexpected angle or unusual viewpoint, rather than the view typically seen by an adult standing up. Pick something that you'd like to paint, but don't paint the angle that immediately comes to mind. Instead, turn the object around in your hand looking at different possibilities. Or change the angle you're at by sitting on the floor and looking up at it, or putting it on the floor and sitting on a table so you've a bird's eye view of it.
Take, for example, a cork screw and look at it from the angle the cork would 'see' rather than the angle you'd use it at. Paint your room or a piece of furniture from the height a child, cat, or dog sees it. Or grass the way an ant sees it. Or the view you get of your child/grandchild when they're sitting on your lap.
You could take a flower and paint it so the petals "fall" off the edge of the paper rather than "fitting it all on", or you could paint only half of it so you had a semi-circle of petals. What about painting a flower from behind? Or focus right into it, like the view a bee or hummingbird must get.
The objective of the painting project is to get you to consider the composition of your painting, so that you don't just automatically paint from the same point of view just because that's is the height at which your easel is set.
Note: New submissions for this project gallery are currently not being accepted. Check the list of monthly painting projects to see what this month's project is.
Take, for example, a cork screw and look at it from the angle the cork would 'see' rather than the angle you'd use it at. Paint your room or a piece of furniture from the height a child, cat, or dog sees it. Or grass the way an ant sees it. Or the view you get of your child/grandchild when they're sitting on your lap.
You could take a flower and paint it so the petals "fall" off the edge of the paper rather than "fitting it all on", or you could paint only half of it so you had a semi-circle of petals. What about painting a flower from behind? Or focus right into it, like the view a bee or hummingbird must get.
The objective of the painting project is to get you to consider the composition of your painting, so that you don't just automatically paint from the same point of view just because that's is the height at which your easel is set.
Note: New submissions for this project gallery are currently not being accepted. Check the list of monthly painting projects to see what this month's project is.