for this project, we had to choose a picture of a landscape that we had photographed either for this project or at some point in time and it was generally supposed to be painted. I decided that i had wanted to do water color because i really enjoyed using them when i painted my job lifeguarding at the pool, and when i did the unusual interior of the fridge in watercolor as well. This however, turned out to be a fatal mistake because this project went horribly wrong and i deffinitley learned that i am not skilled in the area of watercolors to say the least. The landscape was a picture that i took two years ago at a zoo, and it was a small pond with trees and bushes in the background and flamingos standing around the pool. I thought this would be a really could scene to paint because flamingos are such an exotic colored animal, and there are so many cool colors incorporated in this like the green blue pond, and the pink flamingos and yellow sand it just really is a cool idea. i started with the trees in the background and i thought they were turning out pretty good but then i moved on to the sand and the flamingos and everything just went downhill from there. I think that i just have a lot of trouble getting the depth in the landscape with water color because everything kept turning out to look like just one straight color with no shadows or anything, so i tried to incorporate the pen in there to try to bring out some demensioning and make it look like it had a little shape to it but that turned out to just be in vain. Its really frustrating because i spent so much time on this piece just to have it turn out not how i wanted. I would like to learn how to correctly use water colors because i really truly do love how they look and how amazing it can turn out if done right soi would like to learn how to do them to eventually redeem this piece and redo it.
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March 2016
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