Yesterday I decided to start a painting; I had taken a picture at the top of Signal Hill as it has an amazing landscape and will be an amazing challenge for me. I love to go for long walks and signal hill is definitely a walk I love to do at least once a week so this time I just took my camera up with me and took a few snaps before heading back. I wanted this picture to have a lot of emotion in it that is why I have chosen Dunedin, as this city has been such an important part of my life for the last 3 years. I am going to choose colures that bring happiness and excitement and add a lot of tone and texture to the picture to make it stand out and look realistic. So anyway it was Sunday afternoon and I was in my room with some music playing and started tracing on the hills with pencil first.
Later that evening I began to paint, there were a few distractions going on in the next room as the all blacks were playing… well I think it was the all blacks, I am not a huge rugby fan myself but there was a lot of cheering so I assume it was.
I was thinking about how one of the greatest qualities of art is the way it "speaks" to each one of us. People may share opinions about a work of art and even feel similar emotional responses, but ultimately our reactions to art and our interpretations of it are as individual as we are.
Anyway I managed to do the sky and the hills in the background of the painting before getting too hungry and tired to continue however have made a plan to do more this week. I will defiantly put the finished product on my BLOG for you all to see and if I may have time to complete another painting before the end of semester.
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