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It didn’t take me long to think of an idea for my final. Everyone knows me for being the foreign girl; it is brought up to me on a daily basis and I love the fact that I am from Bosnia. It’s what makes me, who I am. I go back to Sarajevo, Bosnia every summer; I pretty much have two homes, one here in Oconomowoc and another one in Sarajevo. The experience is wonderful; it makes me understand the world much better and see it from a different perspective.
So my final is based around this. I decided to do a scene of the cities down towns. In both of the pictures, which I took, the scenes are famous landmarks in the town. In Oconomowoc I choose the four corners and the yellow stone building that everyone knows about. In Sarajevo I choose the old historic downtown, a huge tourist attraction and a beautiful place. For the background, I painted the continents and the oceans on two boards that I connected together. That brings the two main scenes together; and on top of the background I used a quote to show my theme. It says “home is where the heart is” and it is exactly what I was trying to portray with my art.
I had some trouble at the start of the project. First I started painting with oil based water colors and I just couldn’t get the hang of it. They weren’t drying, and I had trouble mixing the colors and getting the right shades. It definitely got frustrating. I really tried to make it work, but it just didn’t cooperate with my skill. So I switched to acrylic and started all over again. This time around, it was much easier because the pain dried faster and I had a variety. The colors were looking good and I could even create texture, and it would dry like that! I got the two images painted pretty fast, and I was satisfied. The background connected them together really well, creating movement and rhythm.