What I've Learned

I've learned:
-to independently work
-to answer my own questions
- to mix oil paints
- a greater understanding of the color wheel
- to define my lines in painting
- to perfect shadowing
- perspective
- to study a painting
- brushstrokes and how effective they can be in a painting
- i have learned to paint what i see rather than what i know the object looks like
---->therefore my paintings have been stronger
- i have also found it effective to use smaller brush strokes, and fewer brushstrokes, to emphasize a part of my painting.
- i have learned that paintings can be very meaningful, and some general. An example of this was when we studied portraits and the many different forms portraits can have.