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My Reinvention

Materials: Pencil and acrylic paint

Stone City (Original) by Grant Wood

Materials: Acrylic Paint

This project is to draw/paint/make a reinvention of a painting that was made at least a century ago. In my case, it is a reinvention of Grant Wood’s painting “Stone City”.

The viewer is looking at a painting of Stone City, a real place. It was an art colony founded by Grant Wood himself.

Thinking of the modern world influenced/inspired me to reinvent the painting the way I did. I thought of the Manhattan skyline, and that is what I was thinking when I drew the skyline. I also thought of the world today trying to use more renewable energy, so I drew windmills and nuclear power plants. I know to some people nuclear power isn’t renewable, but it is still pretty clean.

The best part of the project was the reinvention part, since I let my imagination run wild. The most difficult thing was probably the painting itself, which took a long time. I like the project the way it is now, and don’t have any ideas on how it could be changed.