Feb. 11:So this day I made a lot of progress on my painting. I started by making large gestural strokes over most of the painting with two blue colors blended which created a really nice layer. This honestly may be my favorite part of the painting, I really like the effect that these two blues created. This also started the gestural flow that my painting follows after for the rest of the time. Next, I cautiously applied charcoal to the painting after experimenting with different types. I did not like this at first especially considering I had not followed the "don't get attached" advice. As soon as I added the next green layer though I started to see how the charcoal adds depth and deepens the layering effect. I hadn't expected the paint to mix with the charcoal but it actually created really cool effects. The green paint also is multi-toned like the past few steps. I definitely began to get frustrated especially when I covered over some of my favorite blue sections. Feb. 13So this is where it started to get complicated. I was attempting to follow the advice to "fill in shapes." Being a normally precise person I kept attempting to fill in specific shapes with this purple paint and then trying to blend it unsuccessfully to get a gradient, and it was not working. I definitely was not a fan of this step especially when doing it because it felt like I was restricting myself and I wasn't sure where the "shapes" were to fill in or overlap. After a while I did try to fan out and have more expressive edges even to the defined shapes. My main issue with this section was that I think I covered up some of my favorite parts where you could see through to the other layers and I was unhappy that they were now lost under the purple paint. The green blob in the middle was also throwing off the balance to me and that bothered me.
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