These last four weeks I decided to do more of a meticulous approach to my paintings as the ever so important night is on sight at the horizon. This is more so for my learning center. For it, I’m planning to show my progress as a painter from the beginning by showing a variety of my creations. Although I am embarrassed by some of them, the ones at the beginning are particularly bad but I feel like it’s very important to show. In order to contrast, you need to have two different sides, right? So, it’s because of the bad ones I feel like I have to be more careful or precise when making my last few paintings. Besides showing my progress from the beginning, I was also planning to show my process of the actual task. I want to be painting during the night, while conversing with the many people that will (hopefully) want to visit. Originally, I had the idea of just showing my best works, but now that I think about it, that wouldn’t really show my learning or really be interactive with the audience. As an alternative, I thought about ways I could have a hands-on activity but other than letting people play around with the (little) watercolour I have, I could only think of people watching me as I paint.
Since the beginning but especially during the past few weeks, I have been practicing specific techniques. I don’t know how to explain it but with my mentor we practiced showing lightness and light values in shapes:
and things like edges and how to keep them sharp or blendy:
These are skills I might talk about on the day of the night with others or highlight them in my completed works.
Plubigla Kawaiii 