For this piece of artwork, my Idea was to paint a sunset in the mountains. This idea evolved from a picture  I took a few years ago on vacation. The process of creating this painting started with painting the background which included the blending of the colors of orange and yellow. Orange is the prominent color of the sunset with streaks of yellow blended in to create contrast throughout the background. It took a couple of layers to make the background even and a smooth surface to paint on top of. After the background was completed, I then went on to sketch out and paint the mountains. I painted the mountains black due to the shadows from the sun making the mountains appear black. Lastly, I went on to paint the sun and blend it into the background combining white and yellow. This artwork does not have a meaning it is just a photo that I took on vacation and recreated to become a painting. The most difficult for me during this process was the aspect of blending and getting colors the correct way I wanted them to be. I overcome these challenges by taking my time and not adding too much of one color at a time. If I could start over and change something it would be to make the orange brighter to stick out among the mountains. This is realistic art. It is unique to my style because I like to paint things I have encountered in life, in this painting I recreated a vacation photo. Something I love about this painting is the background.

This is my midterm observational artwork. I chose oranges because it is one of my favorite fruits and they seemed the most appealing thing to paint at the time. It was something simple but still yet challenging to do for an observational painting. The process included first, lightly sketching out the whole and the half of the orange. Then I mixed orange and white acrylic paint to get the right orange. I ended up doing two layers to make it easier to blend the yellow into orange to create contrast to provide lines to represent the different pieces of the orange. Also, I added a little white in the middle to create the center and used brown on the whole orange to show the stem. On the bottom of the half-orange, I added an orange shadow to show that is leaning up against the whole orange. My artwork does not have a meaning, symbolic imagery or something for the audience to think about it is just an object. The more difficult thing was creating the lighter orange for the slices. I continued to do it until it was right. This is a realistic art. 

My idea was to create a dessert scene with cactuss'. I got the idea because I think it would be a pretty scene to see in real life. I used acrylic paint and canvas. First I mixed paint to get the right purple and pink to make the sunset effect. Then I began to paint on the canvas a blend of colors as I went down the canvas. Then I outlined the ground and cactus to get it the way I wanted. Then painted it black to show the shadow effect the sunset would give off.  I want the audience to think about the lack of water and how water should not be taken for granted because, in some other places in the world, it is not easily accessible. The most difficult thing for me during the process was mixing the colors and blending them into the background smoothly.  I overcame this struggle by taking my time and using bigger brushes that I was not normally confident in. If I was to start over I would make it look more realistic. This artwork is realistic. It makes it my unique style by creating things I would like to see one day.