Still Life

This was difficult because I do not usually do anything still-life like this and I kept getting irritated when obsessing over details. I picked dots because they seemed easy since they were in a box, and I think of everything they were probably the easiest to draw, but the tootsie roll was the easiest to paint. The swedish fish were the most complicated part and I even missed an entire fish looking back at it now. The paint took longer on those because there were so many smaller sections, but the dots were difficult to paint as well.

I used watercolour paper, pencil, and watercolours. I chose watercolours because they seemed the easiest to smoothly fill in larger sections and I think I was right. Even though there are some parts that look a bit messy because of the paint I think overall it looks good.

This started with just dots and swedish fish but I decided I wanted something else in the side and added a tootsie roll as well. If I were to continue working on this I would obviously add the missing fish, but also would probably neaten some sections of it. Overall I am happy with the end result and probably wouldn't do much to change it.