So me and Kylie got let into a secret room in our school dedicated solely to painting our painting because we are such responsible students :) So this is the room we came into everyday to paint.
Step one: Step up my station.
This is where I was working for about a week. I've never actually painted on an easel before so I have to say it was a good first experience! I usually paint on the floor, but since this piece was so much bigger than I am used to, it was nice to be able to step back and observe it from farther away.
Step two: Paint my sky
I added a picture of the mixed paint here because I thought it looked really cool, but also because this is always how I blend my paint. I don't like completely blending paint because I think it looks too basic, I feel like leaving some untouched colors gives is more depth. Next, I just slapped some paint on about half of my canvas. I had a different idea for the bottom so no point in painting down there.
Step three: Add clouds
Here's my paint for the bottom half of the clouds, thought it looked kind of like a bird. This also go my thinking, is this considered art?
This is right after I finished my clouds and a basic outline of the trees. Do do my clouds, I mixed paint like I have shown above, and used a sponge. I've never used a sponge in art before, and I really liked it for this. I cant think of much else besides painting clouds that I could use it for but I thought it gave the clouds a really neat look!
Step four: Paint a valley
My original idea was to add a valley. I liked the way the bottom half looked, and the way the top half looked, but I didn't like them together. I thought that the bottom looked too abstract whereas the top looked too real. I decided to carry on with it anyways and see if my opinion would change. *In the second picture I began to add definition to my big trees, and a few small trees in the background using a super thin paint brush, (very time consuming!).
Step five: Just go with it!
First picture is first attempt, but I thought it looked too basic, so I tried to add something else to my mountains. I liked it, but it wasn't quite right. I was honestly considering leaving it because the difficult part about art is that once you change something, you can't go back. But, I wasn't completely happy with it so I decided to change it!
I decided to try to make a more realistic version of a night sky. I liked the look of this better, but I still really wanted to incorporate mountains.
So, I hated the moon and the mountains were too tall. Great. It felt like I was working backwards. Time to paint a night sky again.
In all honestly, I liked my first night sky a little better, but there was no way I could get it exactly the same, and I was willing to work with this. I spread blue, black, purple, and pink paint all over. Then when it was still wet dabbed it with a sponge with a bit of white paint to look like clouds or fog or something. I then used the good ol'toothbrush trick to create my stars. I still wanted mountains again, just lower this time.
I outlined then with a thin paintbrush in case I changed my mind again.
After I was happy with the shape, I filled my mountains in and added little trees all over them. Now it was time for my moon. I wasn't a real fan of the white moon last time, so I decided to try a black lunar eclipse style moon,
Nope, looks more like a black hole to me then a moon.
That's better. Last step: just wanted to add a bit more definition to the moon and put a few more clouds around it.
Voila!
Final thoughts: I am really happy with how it turned out! I'm glad I tried out more than one option. However, I still do like the look of the abstracty looking one near the top. I with I would have played around with that a bit more before dismissing it completely. However, I do still really like this one. Poem art=success! What do you guys think?
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