My intentions for this project were to communicate a realistic sense of the light in the landscape. I think that adding a realistic light element in my scene really helped to define the different values in my painting, because it added variation to the different shades of green. If I hadn't used the light to enhance the color scale then it would have been a lot more bland and monochromatic.
I addressed my self-defined theme of landscape by including a foreground and a background in my painting, and by covering a pretty large area of space in my painting. I also think that I used my artistic voice by portraying the scene pretty realistically, except for a few details, like the texture of the large tree on the right.
In our feedback discussion, I received comments about the light on the bushes, and the texture on the trees--which were details that I focused on, so I would consider my work pretty successful in terms of accomplishing my intentions.
I think that in this project, I was able to improve as an artist by developing my ability to focus finitely on one aspect or detail of my work at a time. I think that for many of my past works, I have tried to bring everything together too soon, and I focused on how the whole painting would look at the end of the project. However, through this project I learned to direct my focus on one small thing at a time, and take it little by little in order to create an end product that I am satisfied with. This did a pretty good job of representing my formal/technical strides over the course of this year, because it brought everything together one aspect at a time and created a painting that I am proud of.
I think that I "stretched and explored" pretty well with this project--in the past I haven't really focused that much on light because I thought it was too hard to fully communicate through a painting. However, in this project, that was one of my main focuses, and I think that I did a pretty thorough job of including it in the way that I intended.
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