Art camp day one

Today was the first day of art camp at the Yong Li art studio. Today we drew the first part of our forest painting.

In the first half of class, I painted the background and grass of the painting. This was relatively easy, in my opinion, because you were making big strokes and covering a large part of the painting every time. Even though there were some small things to avoid, it was still very straightforward and simple. Because of that, I spent a lot of my time on the colors. I tried to make a sunset, and I think it came out something like that, even though there were some small splotches of orange in the yellow. For the grass, I tried to make swirls like Starry Night but they didn't really work out. I still thought it was cool how there were different kinds of green all swirled around, though.

In the second half of class, I painted the two small animals and the watermelon house. My first animal, the bear, got really messed up because I had covered some of it with the background, and it was hard to tell which part was which. The teacher came over and helped me, though, and the bear looked a lot better. But then I tried to do the eyes and mouth and got messed up all over again. The eyes were okay, but the mouth was too red so I dabbed some white on it so it turned pink. Then I tried to make the mouth have a black outline and it became super thick. It looked ugly. So I worked on the mouse. But that also got messed up because the person next to me kept hitting my elbow. It looked like a zombie who hasn't slept in a year and is really starving. So I worked on the watermelon house and it actually looked pretty good until it blended in with the sky and the grass. I turned it crimson and dark green, and that looked a lot better. It might also have been that that was the only part of my painting that actually worked.

In conclusion, I hope that I can make my painting look better tomorrow because it looks really ugly right now!