So this is it. The start of my concentration. For my concentration I chose "exploring nature through color, style, and texture." I like this because I really enjoy painting landscape scenes. I did this painting in oils because I've definitely become pretty fond of them. I like how easy they are to apply and how nice it is to blend with them. They are definitely one of my favorites. But I chose oils because I knew I would have to blend a lot of colors in the waterfall and in the trees on the side. Do I think oils were a good decision? Yes. But do I like this painting? Definitely not. It is very rough and honestly I can't even tell if it's a waterfall. I think I went for a too stylized look and it ended up just looking like a mess. I definitely learned a lot from this painting (like what not to do). At first I really like the way the waterfall was looking, but when I started adding in the greens it became so hard. All the greens began to blend together and I couldn't tell which tree was which. That's when the piece went to a place of no return, and I couldn't save it no matter how hard I tried. But I pursued through it because every artist has a flop piece, and this one was definitely mine. I hope not all my concentrations don't look as bad as this though. I'll work harder on the next ones just in case. (Btw Mrs. Rossi I'll post the final picture later. I forgot to take a final picture of the painting and I accidentally left it in your room when I visited you the other day. Don't worry it'll be up here soon enough when I'm able to take a picture of it!)
For my landscape I chose to do it in oils. I took this picture a few years ago when I was at the Grand Canyon for a summer trip. I chose oils because I wanted to use something that would blend well, and in the end I feel like oils definitely were the best choice. The whole point of the painting was to recreate the picture in my style. To make it more stylized and colorful and texturized. For the most part I think I did pretty well. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I learned a lot about blending, and adding highlights, and creating texture. I think something I need to work on with my paintings though is creating more depth. Even though it is a stylized piece and it's not supposed to be realistic I think some depth could really make it look a lot nicer. I also like this piece because it goes along with my concentration theme, so if I need an extra piece I could definitely use this one. The only thing I would like to change would definitely be the trees in the bottom right corner. They look a little weird. I probably should add some more darker and lighter values in them to make them pop more. But like I said, overall it's a nice piece and I'm happy with the way it turned out.
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