(More pictures to come <Progress>)
I very much enjoy working with acrylic paint. I haven't done a painting with acrylic in a good 3 years. I find this medium much easier to work with than oils because acrylic allows the user to layer (to fix mistakes) and it dries much faster. I was able to mixed wide varieties of colors to get the values you see in this piece. The biggest part about working with acrylic is the artist's skill in layering. Because of this feat, the user must create the background first, then layer on top the foreground. Without using this technique, (i.e.- painting the foreground first) the artist must paint around their foreground to make a background. This leaves margin for creating white spaces around the foreground, and the brush strokes will look bad. I had trouble keeping my color palette the same throughout the entirety of this project. In the reference picture I used, the colors were more vibrants and orange (in the browns). I didn't like that about the picture so I changed it up a little bit. I wanted this painting to feel like more of a fall-based piece. I felt this aspect would be achieved by darkening my values by adding a smudge of black to each of my darks, and add white to those same darks to create pale, lighter colors. I think this worked out well in my benefit, and the overall piece turned out good. To finish this piece off, I added wreaths with bright red bows to give direction and balance to my pale color palette.
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