Final Watercolor Landscape

 Reflection: At the beginning, I wasn't sure what I was doing or how exactly to use watercolors. I started with my sky and learned that in order to make realistic looking clouds that had depth, I needed to layer colors over and over again and dab tissues on the paint while it was still wet to give it more texture. I noticed that the colors in my sky weren't exact to the painting, so I made a greenish paint to add so it had more variety, I did this in both my final and test painting, but the first time I did it I added too much color, and it looked somewhat off. When I first tried to paint the cliffside, it ended up being a giant mush of colors that I couldn't add any details to because I used too dark of colors to start. So, in my final, I started light then added the more vibrant bits and ended by very carefully adding the dark spots. To create texture on the ground in the foreground, I used the dry brush technique. To create depth, I used dark and light colors right next to each other. I used the reference photo to see where the lightest and most shaded parts were and tried my best to copy them. The most difficult part of the painting was creating the foreground, the cliff had a lot of different textures and patterns in it, and like I said before, my first painting I couldn't add any of the details because I made the whole thing too dark. I overcame this challenge by taking my time when doing the final and making sure to slowly add the details, light to dark.