This project assignment was a landscape. The picture was taken at yellow stone national park. The piece is in acrylic paint. When I started this project, my main objective was to capture the texture of the rocks. I had originally thought of doing a water color piece with pen. I ended up doing the piece with acrylic and a palette knife. I started the piece off with a red backwash. I chose red because of the red in the foreground rocks. When using the palette knife, I tried to focus on following the lines down towards the water. One of the things I learned when doing this piece was the while using a palette knife, you can just lay down colors and blend on the canvas. At first I had a hard time differentiating between the different ridges in the mountains. I ended up taking a deep green and using the trees on the top of the mountain to show the different ridges. My darkest color in this piece is purple. I used the purple in the shadows behind the closest rock and right of the edges of the waterfall. I painted the waterfall first in just blue and white. I then decided to go back and add some yellow in. I was most apprehensive about the clouds, which of course I saved for last. I ended up just trying to lay down black, blue and white in the clouds. The closest clouds are pure white. I overall am really pleased with this piece. I love the flow of the piece and am really happy with the texture. One thing that I think I might want to do is to go back on the closest rock and put another layer of white on top of the red. Also the rock on the right behind the closes rock looks a little funky so maybe fix that as well.
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