PlanningI went to Seattle the summer between my freshman and sophomore year and went hiking at Mt. Rainier. I thought the mountain was absolutely beautiful and wanted to draw one of the pictures I took for my landscape last year. Somehow I didn't end up doing the mountains last year, so I thought now was a good time to revisit my pictures. I had Mrs. Rossi go through all the pictures I had and she narrowed it down to a few for me to choose from. I didn't think about the medium too much that I was going to use. Somehow, I don't know how Mrs. Rossi did it, but she got me to really like oil paints so if am going to paint on a canvas it's gonna be oil. ProgressSo, this piece kinda fell out of my mind very often. This time every year I start to get a little behind with all my work with all the holiday breaks and testing going on. I meant to paint this over thanksgiving break but that never happened. Once we got back from break we had to move on to the next project. As I moved on the next project I started this one at home. I decided I was going to try another technique of oil painting when doing this project. I wanted to lay down some base colors for each section and then add the details after that first layer dried. That idea didn't end up working out the way I planned and all my greens looked the same. The next problem I ran into with this piece is when Mrs. Rossi wanted to see it. I would go a week or so without painting the piece since I wanted the first layer to dry and then Mrs. Rossi wanted the piece at school so she could see it. If I ended up painting some of it at school then I had to keep it there till it was dry again and drag all of my other project home. The painting of this piece didn't take a long time but finding the time to paint it was the hardest part. FinalOverall I really like this piece, I like all the colors and how the go together. In the reference picture there is a whole lot more detail and normally I am one for detail, but I like more simplicity in my oil paintings. My landscape from last year actually was an oil paint as well and that time was only my second time using oil paints. I really struggle with brown tones and paint, not sure why I just do. My goal for this piece was to make it a redemption from my last landscape. To do this I tried to simplify the shapes to capture the essence of the picture without all of the detail. I feel like I did a pretty good job with that since the color of the mountain is so drastic from the rest of the piece it makes it stand out like it does in the reference picture. To redeem myself with the browns I pushed my self to add browns for the shading of the green areas even though there wasn't brown in the ref picture. I love the mountain itself the most, I like the shape the different shades used and the snow in it. The purple was a good idea for the shading since the background is blue. I do like the trees as well. What I could do better is the water. The water in the picture is flatter and browner, but I didn't want it to blend so much with the trees and grass. I think I could do a better job blending the water to the grass so the ground doesn't so flat. Other than that I really like how the piece turned out.
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