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I have painted two other pieces before this one. It is hard in this time to pick just one issue but I found this one to be the most personal to me. This is what I believe the world will look like if we ignore the climate issues that are currently going on. I drew inspiration from the scenes that I saw while hiking in Oregon on trails that should have been full of life.

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In this panting, working background to foreground was very important. I started with the sky and worked forward to the ground, water, trees, grass, and shadows. I started the tree line using a very dark color and then went over it with a lighter green for highlights. What I found challenging was the prairie grass on the bottom left corner. I used a big fill brush in order to create the grass texture.

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Being restricted to a genre of the basic still life painting of fruit, it was in my best intentions to try and make something fun and entertaining to paint. I wanted to give the stereotypical fruit still life a twist. I quickly realized that the significant detail in the hippo challenged the little experience I have with this medium but eventually overcame it.

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I chose the bus from the movie "Into the Wild" because the whole scene had a serial look to it. The cold colors and contrast between the snow and the trees made it enjoyable to paint.\

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I chose these three objects keeping a theme of an "Artists Essentials". Adding the match box added to the ascetic/edge. I used a tinted paper to better enhance the highlights and shadows of the object. I chose the camera because the highlights on the dish and in the lenses made an interesting and fun challenge.

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Working with watercolor is challenging and an enjoyable project. Using multiple layers, combining complimentary colors to create shadows, and opec layers to create highlights resulted this final piece.