This artwork is a mountain scene painting comprised of mainly pinks, blues, and whites. It depicts three large mountains in front of two large rolling clouds. Just before the mountain is a blue silhouette of a group of trees. The sky and ground are mostly shades of pink with some blue areas, giving the effect of a body of water below the mountains. in the foreground are two landmasses, one on either side of the image, with large snowy mine trees on them. The landmass on the right also has two smaller, barren trees growing on the shore, and a walking path through its bushes. In the bottom right corner, I signed the canvas with the usual silver sharpie. The painting is outlined by a black border.
I created this painting using a slough of different techniques. I first used a palette knife to mix up blues, pinks, and whites on the canvas, followed by a large paintbrush to blend it. After it dried, I used cotton balls to dab on light blue in the shape of clouds, then a white layer over it. I then used a palette knife to scrape white paint over the shape of the mountains to give them a rocky texture. I then used a cotton ball to get a small amount of blue onto the mountains. I used an inkpen and drew in a style much like my 'faux sumi-e' painting to make the black lines on the mountains. I used a fan shaped brush to paint the smaller blue trees just under the mountains, and a palette knife to make the white lines in the water. I used four different fan brushes (one black, two different blues, and one white) to paint the pine trees with a Bob Ross inspired technique. I used cotton balls of black blue and white to dab on the bushes below the pine trees, a palette knife to swirl the walking path and left shoreline, and a regular paintbrush to make the small trees at the bottom. The main point behind this painting was to make something nice for my great grandma. She is currently moving into a nursing home, and she needed decoration for her new room. I thought a peaceful winter scene would be nice for her. My family are also all big Bob Ross fans, so making a landscape painting in his style made her like it even more. Overall, I really enjoy this artwork. I was very non stressful to make, it was fun making a canvas, it turned out great, and it's bright and colorful. Many of my artworks are predominantly dark, so making a painting that was bright and colorful was a nice change of pace. I definitely think this painting was a success and I might make more like it.
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For my landscape artwork, my plan has shifted a bit. Originally I was gonna follow a Bob Ross tutorial that my mom picked out, but that has changed. Instead, I had her send me a few screenshots of landscape paintings she liked. I then picked the brightest colored one out of the selection (because it's the most different from my last painting) and decided to recreate it my own way. I ended up choosing a bright pink and blue winter mountain scene, and with all the techniques I've learned so far began painting. I used the blending skills I learned earlier this year, the cotton ball techniques, painting with a palette knife and an ink pen to create all the different parts of the landscape. I am currently about halfway done, but that still leaves a lot to go.
Before starting this artwork though, I recreated a design I found on Displate. The original work was created using Sumi-e ink, but of course we don't have that. So I instead used old separated tempera paint so it was watery and thin like Sumi-e. The only real reason I made this piece was because it looked cool. It was just fun to make. Right now I think I have a plan. While I did just complete a landscape artwork, I think I'm going to paint another. My Mom is a very big Bob Ross fan, so I had the idea to make her a painting following a Bob Ross tutorial. I don't know which one yet though because I told her to find one she likes and send me a link. The landscape I already made was following a few art techniques I found on youtube, most of which just involved painting very quickly so I was unable to pay attention to mistakes. Painting quickly allows me to keep making progress instead of fussing over mistakes the entire time.
When making my star wars scenery series, I didn't put much preparation into it. I never sketched into my sketchbook or practiced my paint blending. To begin, Daryn and I made a list of possible planets I could paint. We then made small lists of possible subjects for each planet. Many of the ideas we came up with were the ones I ended up painting in each scene. I started by painting the most iconic planets and moving towards the more obscure ones. As the paintings went by I figured out that ink dries to the same darkness as black paint. With that knowledge, I started drawing the scenes more intricately using an ink pent instead of a paintbrush. other than that, I rarely used any preparation.
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