In our last class I asked everyone to bring in their backgrounds from before because I wanted you to use your imagination to now make that background into a quick little scene. Most of you did pretty good, others struggled a bit. This is a good thing because you need to get out of your comfort zone occasionally so you can see that no one dies, and you can trust yourself. It's like taking the training wheels off your bike for the first time: A bit scary at first, but fun once you see you didn't end up in the ER.
Here are my before and after. I wasn't concerned if I did them accurately, that wasn't the point, I just looked at each and did what I felt like it suggested to me. You can also use this exercise to practice brush strokes like the liner brush or dry brush, this is about gaining confidence when you paint so have fun and don't sweat the small stuff.
(I practiced my liner brush doing branches.)
(Here I practiced being more impressionistic.)
(Here are more branches with the liner and practice making groups of flowers.)
(I was running out of time so this isn't one that turned out the way I had hoped, but that's okay, it gives me ideas.)
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