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It Only Took a Pandemic

30/6/2020

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Good morning, Readers!

So, I did it. I finally finished the painting I started last year. The one I turned around to face the wall for months because I hated it. That one.

I spent the entirety of yesterday finishing it off. And you know, I don't hate it. I'm not in love with it, but I don't hate it. For the first traditional painting I've done in many years, it's not terrible. It's took me more than a month to finish. Mind you, I was working on it only roughly an hour a day.

Anyway, below is the progression of the painting (starting from after I covered up the clouds that I despised so much).
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Fixed the clouds. Debated whether or not to add the highlights, as I really liked the look of these clouds.
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Added the highlights. Don't like it as much, but decided to go with it regardless.
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Figured out the location and shape of the mountain range and blocked in the base colour. In the concept sketch I filled the valley with a pine forest. But I was far too lazy to paint that, so I made it foggy instead. Because I'm lazy.
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Painted in the now-capped mountains and attempted to create a line of light from a weak setting sun. It didn't quite work, but still looked alright. So I left it.
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Foreground done. I started off painting everything brown and farting around with paint. It looked like a amorphous blob, so I quit for the day and then, thinking about it all night, decided to do a shale cliff instead. It looked alright.

And then it was the end of the month, and the painting needed to get finished, so I spent literally all of yesterday until roughly 7:00pm painting (while also watching ​Avatar: The Last Airbender) to get it finished. And so here we are. The final form:
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This one is a donation (more details to follow when they are revealed). I need to get it photographed properly so I can at least offer prints to sell. It's hard to shoot a fairly large acrylic on canvas in any kind of decent manner. Hopefully, I'll still have the canvas when I have the means to photograph it properly.

​Anyway, it's done. It only took a pandemic for me to get it done.

Right, so I completed my painting on time. But I've got other things that need completing before I can celebrate my accomplishments. So I'm off to go do those things.

​Ciao!
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