Progress overtimeFor my painting i knew that i wanted to do something in relation to the beach. So i chose this really pretty picture that i took at Carolina Beach this past summer, while the sun was setting. The reason i chose to paint this picture is because like many people the beach is where i'm happiest. I also really love the beach because its where my family always meets for trips and every time we do wonderful memories are made. So i wanted to paint something that really showed connection to happy times and a reminder of what means the most to me. What i found most challenging about this piece was trying to get the sunset right. It took me most of the time to get each color closest to what the picture looked like, using gradient techniques to fix the sunset together. I think the most successful part of my piece is the "palm trees", i found it very easy to fix up the style of the tree because if you messed up it actually blended together nicely to form the shape of the tree and leaves. The process of my painting started with the blue back round which set the tone for the color of the sky in my painting. Second, i started setting a base for how the sunset would form and eventually started blending the purples and pinks together to make it look more realistic. After i finished the sunset i could set a basis of how the purple ish clouds looked, for this i used water and a dash of purple and lightly stroke my brush to make the oddly shaped clouds. Lastly, i could paint my trees in which i used black paint and used my brush to make the shape of leaves of a palm tree. i thought this went very well and made the sunset really pop. Above is the original picture i took at Carolina Beach.
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