Season 10 Recap
I would call this season perhaps the season I really started to trust myself. In season 9, I started to discover ways to control the overall temperature and color of each composition. It helped me create bold and deeply colorful paintings when I looked at that season as a whole. With this season, I started to really make decisions on what to make the focal point would be for each. I spent much more time making dynamic skies instead of just starting off with a basic flat blended wash. I began to experiment a bit more with this season, which gave me some real successes but also a bit of more failures.
Favorite Painting: Episode 10 Ocean Sunset. I’ve been getting a lot of practice with seascapes this season and last season and with each one, I keep improving. This one is my favorite because if the great contrast between the sky’s glow and the dark parts of the ocean. I intentionally wanted this one to have drama and I think the intentional use of contrast really made this painting a success. Also, the structure of the wave in that one is my best yet!
Least Favorite Painting: Episode 8 Golden Sunset. I hated this one because I felt like I lost some control with the mid-ground. It started off promising but I think I moved too quickly with the white snow and couldn’t decide with what should be the main hero of the painting. Plus, that tree in the front was a last attempt to save it and it failed miserably. I’ll admit all the paint on there looks expressive, but I also didn’t feel in control of how that would look, so I wasn’t happy with the end result.
Painting I Learned the Most From: Episode 3 Twin Falls. I think this is the one I really started to experiment more with the sky and how to bring in the overall tone of a painting. I let loose a bit more and really started to incorporate more colors within the sky. Also, with this one, I was able to really make the background look great with depth and the layers. When I look at this one in a smaller scale, I can really see how well the depth was created. The river in the front is the true hero here and is bright against all the dark in the painting.
