1. The place represented in my art is my best friend's lake house on Lake Gaston. This was taken over the trees in the backyard. This house is where all of our family friend circle goes for weeks at a time over the summer and we all go tubing on her speed boat and we have picnics on her pontoon boat. All of us just get together and bond. 2. The thing I found most challenging was the weird lines and shapes in the sunset. There were lots of diagonals, horizontals, and verticals all mixed together. I think that in the end it made it look more unique though. 3. Honestly, I don't think this is my best piece ever but the most successful part of it was probably the pink part of the sunset, near the right side. 4. I first sketched the general outlines and then got to work painting. I started with the blue ombre sky, which in the final piece you can't really see the ombre, I think it was needed in order to give the sky a more realistic look. I then added the pink in. The unique shapes of this made it difficult but I powered through. I then added the small yellow lines in which added a nice pop of color. And I finished off with the black silhouette of the trees. I ended up going over the trees with some blue and pink to add more yellow, and then I brought down the tree line a bit which helped make the black not so overwhelming because this piece is supposed to be very vibrant and bright, not dark. I think the skin color mixing was the most helpful because we had to work had to create hard-to-make colors with just red, blue, and yellow. I didn't end up using skin tones in my piece but they still helped me to mix the colors for my painting a lot better. I got almost perfect matches in paint to my original image.
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