A couple of weeks ago I started my advanced painting
independent study. I have been waiting ever since the end of the last school
year to get back to working and improving my skills and was ecstatic, to say
the least, to get going!
In this class I will be working mainly with oil paint and
some watercolor. I plan on doing at least 5 paintings (and probably a few other
things) during this class. My goal is to get down the basics of painting:
different brush stroke styles, thicknesses, colors, and positioning, and too begin
creating my own "unique" style.
Yesterday, I finished my first painting! I choose to do an oil painting of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado from my vacation this summer. I started out by painting the sky, then moved on to the mountains, and then finished with the foreground.
The sky was the easiest part for me, I got it painted in a few hours. The mountains were a bit more tricky for me but were still fairly easy for me get right. The hardest part by far for me, and what took me the longest, was the foreground.
When I first painted the foreground, the greens were way too similar to the greens in the mountain. It made the painting look very flat and brought down the overall quality of the painting as a whole. I went back through and added some browns, yellow ochre, and lighter greens. Doing that brought forward the trees and pushed back the mountains, and made the painting look a lot better.
Yesterday, I finished my first painting! I choose to do an oil painting of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado from my vacation this summer. I started out by painting the sky, then moved on to the mountains, and then finished with the foreground.
The sky was the easiest part for me, I got it painted in a few hours. The mountains were a bit more tricky for me but were still fairly easy for me get right. The hardest part by far for me, and what took me the longest, was the foreground.
When I first painted the foreground, the greens were way too similar to the greens in the mountain. It made the painting look very flat and brought down the overall quality of the painting as a whole. I went back through and added some browns, yellow ochre, and lighter greens. Doing that brought forward the trees and pushed back the mountains, and made the painting look a lot better.
