This week--red rocks!

This week I combined two things I'm not very good at--landscape/environments, and photoshop. So its no wonder that I'm not yet satisfied with it. It still looks really... photoshoppy. Ugh.

The reason I'm stopping know is that my hand hurts, and I really need to give it a break. So. I think maybe my art for next week will be edits on pieces I've done in the past few weeks (including this one) rather than an entirely new piece... but we'll see.

This is based on a photo from a trip my family took to Southern Utah. I didn't go on the trip, but I still liked the picture.

I like landscapes pala...

This semester I'm taking the Illustration 4 class, a class where we go out every Friday morning and do en plein aire painting through the afternoon. The first couple weeks were, I admit, very frustrating. I have painted a fair amount in the past, but never really focused on landscapes--figures have almost always been the subject of my paintings in the past. So its not surprising that I struggled. But this last week, I feel like I kind of got over a hump. I'm still far from saying "I'm so good at landscape painting now!" That, I think, is still quite a few humps away. No, this hump was more along the lines of, "Hey, I might eventually be able to become somewhat competent at this!"

Also, I discovered that using palette knives is very fun. Also, they are much easier to clean than brushes are.