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The picture I chose was of a landscape I took in Poland this summer. It has a special meaning for me since it was the first and last time I would ever see my family there again. I spent a lot of time photographing everything while I was there. I picked a scenery with a beautiful lake and forest.

As for my process, It was definitely challenging. I knew the first step was to tape down the borders so that it could be a clean border, yet I now know that when you use water with the paint it seeps through the tape. After that though, I didn’t even know where to start. I didn’t know whether I should coat it once with the main gray sky and then add details on top, or draw what I see. This might be one of my least favorite pieces so far because of my inability to paint. Personally, it just never clicked with me, and for the life of me I cannot get the hang of it. There are many mistakes and the paper becomes very rigid and hard in the center due to pieces of paint sticking out and drying. I also had a hard time transferring the image over from my tracing paper due to each paper being a different dimension, though that’s a mistake on my part. The whole point of posturizing an image is to get it’s general values through shapes. Meanwhile, I couldn’t get much shapes in apart from the lake and sky. The trees and bushes get jumbled up into one and I tried a method of drawings strands of trees and grass with my paintbrush, though I don’t think it suits what this project was going for. In all, I could’ve done better. My perfectionism got the better of me and I ended up picking a different image 3 times, and restarting the process over and over again. Even though I have given painting multiple times and it never worked for me, I still want to continue and challenge myself. I know it gets better with time and practice, and even though this project was so frustrating and confusing, I’m glad in a way that this project pushed me into that direction.