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I dabbled a little bit with watercolors before but this is the first time I created a palette for a picture. It was fun experimenting to match the color I see in the picture or of an actual subject.
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The techniques I found most helpful are proportion, negative space and breaking the subject down into shapes and relationships. But I find myself using all the different techniques at different times.
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It was both fun, with some difficult parts, especially when lots of lines and shapes came together. The upside-down drawing definitely helped with abstracting the relationships between the shapes, rather than drawing from preconceived ideas of what the subject should look like.
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I found blind contour drawing helpful for capturing detail on the subject, but more difficult to capture scale and proportion.
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- Observation: A coast live oak loaded with acorns, some just starting to peek out of their caps, others more fully formed. Another coast live oak next to it hardly had any acorns, could spot just a handful on the tree, and very tiny/immature. Another coast live oak, approx. 40 feet away and very mature, had a lot of acorns too, but not as dense as the first oak.
- Possible Explanations: The first oak may be in more favorable conditions relative to the oak next to it (more sun, more water, some other favorable condition or a combination, or something unfavorable for the other oak). This upcoming acorn season could be a mast year for coast live oaks.
- Questions: What conditions would favor the abundant production of acorns? What would hinder this? What is the pattern of acorn production for this tree from year to year? For the other trees?
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