This is my fourth concentration and I don't know how I feel about it honestly. Some people have told me that they like it but I can't decide if I do or don't. I think it's too plain but I just copied straight from the picture so there wasn't much that I could add. I did it in a monochromatic style because it's different and I like doing paintings in just one color. It allows me to really focus on the shading and dark and light values instead of trying to get the perfect colors. I think my favorite part of this piece is the smoke coming out of the geyser. This is a picture I took at Yellowstone national park of a geyser just going off. I chose the red because the geysers reminded me of volcanoes which I think of red when I think of volcanoes. I think it's makes sense. Overall, this piece is nice but I don't think I like it as much as my last piece. My last piece definitely shows my style the best.
This is my third concentration piece and I really like it. I think this piece really shows my style and the direction I want to take my art. All the colors and different brush strokes are what I really like about this piece. I like how abstract and unique they are and how it makes the piece different than the average real life painting. This is definitely the style I enjoy the most. I find it easy and simple. Someone in class even described it as "child-like" and I kind of like that style. I didn't take any offense to that. I actually completely agreed. I think my style is very simple. Another thing someone told me to do was maybe add more shadows and depth to my paintings. My lines don't look as natural as I want them to look. I just feel like I'm not a realistic painter. And I paint pretty flat with no depth so I definitely want to work on that. I'll try to incorporate that in my next pieces by making the background duller and trying to improve my line work. Hopefully my pieces will just keep getting better.
For my second concentration I made it pretty simple. I just did some sand dunes in a desert. In the picture they looked red and pink so I really tried to emphasize that. I really like how they turned out but it may look a little too simple. I didn't really know what else to put in the picture because I only put in what I saw, which were hills. But overall I like this painting. It was fun and took me a really short amount of time. The hardest part was definitely the sky. The clouds are hard to do because it was really difficult to make them look realistic. I did my best and I still don't really like how it turned out, but I don't think it really takes away from the picture much. I also did this painting in acrylic so I could paint over stuff and now worry about everything blending together. It also made it easier because it dried fast and didn't stay wet for super long. Like I said, I like how this piece turned out and I think it goes well with my concentration idea. It really shows a different style of painting that's smoother and softer than my pieces before.
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