Creativity Post 11

One aspect about becoming a better painter is improving specific skills. Aside from the fact that I love Peanuts, I wanted to paint this picture so I could practice my color blending/transitioning. Making a consistent transition of white at the horizon up to a royal blue at the top of the sky was pretty difficult, much more than I had imagined anyway. To do this, I mixed a series of different shades of blue. I painted white at the bottom and the blue that I already had at the top. I then painted a section of each mixed blue that I had in between. I used broad strokes to mix the wet paint on the canvas to make it look more consistent. The trees and clouds offered some obstacles to the blending but it worked out. I feel much more comfortable with this specific skill now that I really spent time to concentrate on it.