#No background I’m running out of art supplies😔

[serndest]

5:38pm Backyard Landscape

From August 24, 2021. A spur-of-the-moment watercolor landscape done while looking out my bedroom window. So may or may not count as plein air painting.😅

Unfortunately, only a timelapse of my recent tweak, but not the main majority.😔

BEHIND THE SCENES

The lighting and overall setting looked so cool that I wanted to paint it. However (and I guess obviously), I don't think it was a weekly background drawing for my Spring 2021 intro 2D animation class. Iirc, I just went in quickly trying to get all the colors before sunset, prob why I just painted instead of my usual sketching (especially since I’m from more of a drawing background).

Fun fact: I ended up showing this In a March 2023 pop-up group exhibition, with the rest of my class. It was part of my instructor’s gallery tech course. I didn't do much physical installation (just used a portrait-oriented TV monitor, installed by a volunteer gallery technician). However, I was…overly detailed about displaying my color just right, so I spent a long time on my color correction.😳 In a way, it still almost felt like I was painting it. Almost actually *not* as straightforward had it been a physical painting. Kinda felt like a blurred line between photo editing and painting.

MINI JOURNAL (ART EXHIBITION)

During the exhibition, I really wanted to socialize more, but I ended up nervously pacing, looking out the window, and walking out to the parking lot the whole time (made me look like a creep, to be honest😨).

Not from being in public though; I'd gotten less shy since then (possible story for another time). But from worry that my parents, uncle, & aunt may have gotten lost or into an accident on the way (since they hadn’t been to this gallery before).😟 Turns out that my parents were having dinner and my uncle didn’t leave work until about half an hour into the exhibition.😮‍💨

In retrospect, probably should've socialized more instead, and have them call/text me if they were running late or needed help finding a parking place.😔 That way, I don’t miss out on getting to know others.😊

ART SUPPLIES

Hardware: iPad mini 5 & Apple Pencil 1st gen

Software: Adobe Fresco

Brushes:

Watercolor wash 

Watercolor flat (Tree trunk, blue tree shadows, fence, gutter piece)

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