Where Are You At?

What has been the most challenging aspect of the course so far?
I would have to say that the most challenging aspect of the course for far is trying to get the right color and shadow.
In what areas have you progressed the most and how have you progressed?
The area I have progressed in is mixing the colors. The way I have progressed is that I work fast and thing about the detail after I get the basics.
How does looking at examples of painting from throughout history affect us as painters today?
We see that many painters had different ways of painting, different color combinations, different reasons for painting what they did and they had different ideas of what to paint. I think that painters today seem to combine all the different ideas, colors, and textures to paint what we see or imagine.