Ideas and ReferencesI made a list of 20 ideas and chose two of my favorites. My first idea was being inside a state park. The images were from the Arches state park when I visited. My second idea was inside buildings in downtown Charleston. I took the reference images on a trip to Charleston a few years ago. Colored SketchI ended up choosing the inside a state park idea. Mrs. Rossi helped me pick the image that I should use for my final and I began a colored sketch in colored pencil. I tried to add as many colors that I could see into the colored sketch so I knew how to achieve the perfect look for my final piece. In ProgressFinalReflectionI first brain stormed what I wanted to do for the theme of Interior Spaces. I came up with a list of 20 ideas and narrowed it down to inside a building in Charleston and inside the Arches State Park. The state park references were more interesting and the colors were really bright. This caused me to lean more towards doing the State park photo. Out of all five of my references for this idea I ended up picking the one that had arches that you could go under or "inside . I think that this idea also made my piece fit with the theme more. I then did a color sketch of my piece and picked out which colors that I would use for it. I then started my piece by placing a wash of red orange all over the canvas. I then laid out all of the colors with one layer of paint on top of the orange layer. I began adding shading and more colors as I went. I made different textures to the piece such as using a dry brush to make the leaves on the bushes. I add a hard time getting the grey bushes right. The color of them was really hard to make and I could not get them to look as realistic as I wanted. They still are not perfect but I think that they look better than before. Acrylic is really hard to blend and that was supper frustrating to me. I did however, like that you could add layers over mistakes and parts of the painting. This made it easier to fix some of my mistakes. Overall, I liked acrylic even though it was frustrating to work with at really hard to blend. I am also really happy with how my piece turned out! I love the colors in the piece and I love the way that the shadowing looks. I think that this piece helped me gain more knowledge in mixing colors. I feel like I have definitely grown as an artist because I got to experience a medium that does not blend well which was definitely out of my comfort zone.
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