It has been a few weeks since I have updated my blog on my painting. Over Reading Break (Nov12,13) I managed to get in some painting while I was (metaphorically) under a mountain of schoolwork. In our Teaching Art Course we had been working on colours and blending colours, so I decided to try and create a sunset painting. As has been my theme over the semester, I stuck with mountains and added in a body of water.

What I should have done first was watch this video on how to blend acrylic paints together:

Since that is not really my style, I have found this video to use in the future when I attempt another sunset painting again! Live and learn, am I right?

I had a lot of fun doing this painting but something I definitely need to continue to work on is being patient when I am painting. I was taking my time for the top half of the painting and then I rushed through the reflection portion of the painting. In the future I would like to work on taking a break, then coming back to the painting rather than rushing to get it done!

Here is the final product: