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This piece was a lot of fun! You can tell that when I did the first pear I was still a little shaky in the watercolor ways but the difference between the first and second pear is pretty drastic I would say. I got a lot more comfortable by the time I did the second pear. You can’t really see the salt in the first pear, but it is in the dark part of the pear. My favorite one to do was the watercolor pencils. I think it looks very stylistic and fin compared to the others which are more traditional looking. Also, to have no color restrictions in the watercolor pear was really fun because I could just go crazy with the colors!
This practice, although it didn’t turn out great, was definitely worth it to do before anything big so I could work out the kinks in my technique before moving on to something like the fruits/veggies thing we did after. I had a hard time controlling how much water I used with the pigment, as seen in the blue and red value charts, where the paper had too much water in it before I added the paint
Doing a teacher-led practice was a great introduction to a new medium. A lot of people in my class including me hadn’t spent a lot of time painting with watercolor, and this helps us get a feel for the new medium without being an overwhelming task. I had a little trouble with this; I switched the was and gradient techniques and messed up the bleed by waiting too long before adding the second color, but I got a feel for the paints and I now know a lot of applicable techniques for further use.
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AuthorSophomore at Apex High School Archives
June 2018
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