Back at the BarnI am doing the inside of the barn that my Great Aunt keeps her horse, Gambler, at. A lot of happy memories for me are with my Aunt and the barn, not particularly the one I am going to paint, but the barns where Gambler stays. She sent me a ton of pictures it was almost too hard to choose. I decided to use a medium that I had never used before, gouache. It seems like watercolor but doesn't blend together easily. As I worked on this project, the more I realized I didn't like gouache. The StruggleThis whole project has been a struggle even this post. I had a really good summary of my process and weebly just deleted it. Oh well, I struggled with the type of paper to use because the watercolor paper I was experimenting with didn't hold a lot of the gouache well. I ended up using mix media paper and it worked very well. I struggled with the perspective of the piece and in the end I still don't think I got it right. As I mentioned before it turns out I HATE GOUACHE!!!! I tried several different techniques and didn't like any of them. I wanted to see the detail of the wood, but the gouache made everything smooth and flat. I knew I had to make the most out of a bad situation so I opted to use watercolor markers and pencils for the details of the piece. Since I had pretty much color blocked with the gouache I used the markers to make harsher lines to then be covered with more detail. Before using the markers the piece looked soft, but not in a good way. Soft as in the piece melted into itself and I couldn't quite make out the shapes. The brightness of the markers helped me highlight the parts of the piece I wanted to focus on. After that I went in with the watercolor pencils and did the finer details in the wood and the buckets. The more detail I got into the piece the more I liked it. Overall I wouldn't call this my worst piece, but I wouldn't call it my best piece either. I think I could have done better if I wasn't pressed for time to finish this project. If I were to do the project again I would not use gouache, and I would spend more time making sure the perspectives are right. My favorite thing about the piece has to be the color choice. I feel like I did a good job picking out the colors for the project and nothing is too extreme or seems like it doesn't belong. I think the piece could be revisited later, but for now I'm done
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