I am taking a watercolor course, because my major requires 3 credits in “Humanities Requirement 6”. I think it is much easier than music or oil painting, so I chose it. Now, I think it is not as easy as I thought, because it is not just coloring the paper. I should consider a lot of things such as values, tones and shadows. I have to learn to mix colors...

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I chose flowers to paint because I love flowers. I saw so many flowers in my life. When I was young, I saw many different flowers in the vase at my living room because my mother loved flowers. I took so many pictures with the flowers. When I grew up, and I always went with my mother to see flowers show every year. We saw a lot of flowers that came from different countries of the world. Flower could...

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In my painting, I started in the main subject – house. The color of roof, front wall and side wall are the same color, but different value. Roof is heavy, front is middle and the side wall is light because the light from that side. Then the ground almost is the same color, some places I add more red, some places I add more yellow to make it looks like different and concave...

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In my few watercolor paintings, I like the tomato mostly because it looks like still live and the color is almost the same as the nature. I feel satisfy of this painting and I am proud of myself that I can do it like real. I started my painting just with the same color. It looks flat. I don't like it. Then I noticed the light and the shadow...

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When I started painting I know how difficult this painting is. First problem is drawing human body. Especially they are small in this painting. I couldn't paint the face well. Second, there is no reference for this painting. It comes from my brain. So I have to thinking about the colors that how to paint ground, flowers and house fancy...

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Water color, I saw this word so many times, but I had never touch water color until I take the Water color class. In my impression, water color is complicated, and is difficult to learn. However, I take the class this semester because I want to know more about water color...

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I love spring, so my final project has a nice name “Spring House”. Green is spring’s color, I paint my house to light green; red is flower’s color, so I wear red jacket, and the tree has red leaves. The weather in spring still can feel a bit of cold, but , fortunately we have sunshine...

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I am enjoying my water color class. I have studied lot of painting skills from the class. When I can use those skill to paint , I feel proud of my job. I treat my painting as my baby because I spend time and put my heart to create it. I like water color more than before and I really enjoy it...

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