I used 7 mediums or techniques. The techniques or mediums that I used were glitter, acrylic paint, pencil, rhinestone stickers, white pen, water color, dripping watercolor technique, and glitter and glue technique. The glitter is the medium I used to create the word joy in cursive on the top; it's tiny shiny and reflective, that comes in a variety of shapes and colors , and in this case gold and silver and it can be used in a variety of decorative and crafty ways but it's usually quite messy to use. I used acrylic paint to create the silhouette of cats in the back using black acrylic paint, I taped cutouts of two cats onto the board and painted the parts of the board that weren't covered by the cat cutouts with back acrylic paint and created the silhouette of the cats in the back, and I also used the acrylic black paint to paint over the cutouts of the women with the umbrella and the cat in the box to create their silhouettes. Acrylic paint is fast drying and can blend and mix well, allowing a variety of tints and shades to be produced and is good for painting a gradient, and good for covering mistakes since once it dries you can paint over it. Pencil is my medium that I used to make raindrop hearts, I used shading to create the raindrop and it's shadow; pencil is good for getting rid of mistakes easily since it can be erased easily with an eraser and it has a variety of different dark and lighter versions, it's very versatile in different techniques, like shading, line work and hatching and so much more. On top of pencil, I also used white pen to make the light reflection in the heart raindrops, white pens are good for adding finer and smaller, lighter details on darker surfaces. Rhinestone stickers are another medium that I used, they are used to make the colorful rain form the clouds; the rhinestones are very beautiful and can be used for in many ways for decorations, crafts and art. many different designs. Water color is another medium that I used for the clouds and the two smaller cats , one on the left and the right side, I used a variety of colors that would match each other and created them, and they turned out very beautiful and unique. It's very unique when mixing multiple colors since the colors are a bit more transparent, giving it more clarity and giving the paint a more unique and "flowy" appearance and it provides more fluidity, ti vibrate and you can do so many effects and techniques with it. Also, regarding water color, I used the watercolor dripping technique on the umbrella belonging to my women and umbrella silhouette; I pooled water color, in multiple colors, on the top of the umbrella and let it bleed a bit and allowed it to drip a little bit down my silhouette to represent colorful rain dripping down the umbrella, this technique is really pretty and can be used for and represent many things and can create a very abstract and fluid feel and appearance and add a lot of flow. Lastly, I used the glitter and glue technique, I used it create the word joy at the top of my piece, I wrote the word joy in cursive n glue first then sprinkled gold and silver glitter on to the glue to create word joy out of glitter, it very versatile and creative way to use glitter to use both glitter and glue, it can be used to created almost anything out of glitter,as long as you draw it correctly with glue first, and it provide a a pleasant and shiny appearance/detail. My word was joy. I portrayed joy as a combination of both how I felt like how others would describe it or "see" it as but also added a twist at which what I see it as, as well. Joy is something that everyone wants; its lasts for a long time, it's not fleeting, and it can be both hard and easy to obtain. Joy is born out sadness and lost of hope, that's what I'm symbolizing or showing with the cat in the box and the women. The cat is abandoned, whatever the cat had is now gone, all its hope and it's filled with sadness, its suffering and is even forced to experience the force of the elements, or the rain, it has no shelter. Then, as those feelings consumed the cat, the women show up, with her umbrella, and she shelter the cat from the rain and gives the cat hope and everything it lost, and of course she gave that cat joy, overwhelming joy. with all the cats, I'm kind of portraying that joy is for everyone, for every little thing, no matter how insignificant and who or what they are, it's you receiving again something that you thought was lost or was taken from you, or was given something you have never received before, it's some from those moments when you feel the most down in your life and makes it all better and I think that how most people see it as. I also added bright colors, cute cats and sparkles/glitter, because I also feel like that's what most people thing almost immediately when you say joy, these things kind of are embodiment of what people commonly see joy as and what they think it is and what it represents, something that will make everything better and prettier and just more bright and valuable. But, as mentioned, I also put my own twist; I put rain which isn't something people usually associate with the word joy, but for me rain brings me joy. Rain is something more personal that brings me joy, so I portray it as more colorful and happy and added the heart raindrop to show that, that I'm unique and everyone is unique. Joy is unique and different for everyone, sparkles and bright colors and cute animals is common, but even those things might not be what brings joy to other people and they other things bring them joy. Something that one person might see as something joyful that brings them joy could be something that someone else thinks that could never bring them joy, everyone is different and joy is represented by many different for many different people.
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