Exploring acrylic paint part 1

As I started to explore acrylic paint, I originally had a plan to paint a previous sketch I had done of a girl. (as seen below)

As I started my background I started incorporating more color and texture than I originally was thinking. I left a whole in the middle of the canvas for the girl but eventually realized I needed/was taking this painting more abstract. So I filled in the middle and just kept adding more layers of color and texture. I haven't painted much and this was slightly out of my comfort zone but I love the way it turned out. I plan to now take a much bigger canvas and paint this on a large scale.

Text art

For my first challenge in the Text art unit I decided to use one of my favorite quotes and big curly font on construction paper to write it out. This was a arty way to incorporate words and creativity into the same piece. 

For my second challenge I made a black out poem. Using a page out of an old book I colored over all the words, except the few that I wanted to keep for my poem. This book was fairly deep and dark therfore my poem is sort of disturbing. Because of the dark tone I have the bottom of the covered words turn from brown to red. 

For my final text art project I used modeling clay to make various size and shaped buttons. Next I painted each button a different color, keeping my color scheme very bright and neon. Then I used the buttons to spell out various words like the one above FIT. Fit symbolized what we use buttons for (to make something fit). While exploring art pieces using text art I really liked when artist did a piece that could be manipulated over and over again. This piece can be changed and altered as someone comes up with a new word or phrase, I like that.