Landscapes were what we had to do this time. I really enjoyed doing landscapes, they are more free than the detailed work of objects. I have two that I really like.

One is a pond with a duck and the reflection of some grass and cats tails. The other is a picture of a beach with a very beautiful sunset and some sail boats in the distance. The pond I did a wash and was originally going to have it be a sky, but then I looked at it from upsidedown and thought it looked like water ripels so I decided to make it water instead. I put in a small patch of grass up at the very top. Then once I let it dry I went back in and added more details to the grass and also added the reflection of the grass. I think the reflection of the grass is fun because the grass is cut off in the picture so the cattails that are shown are only in the reflection. When I was done with that I was looking at it and thought it needed something else. I thought to myself what else could I do, and then realized that ducks swim in ponds so why not put a duck in. So I added the duck into the top right side with wet on dry technique.

I had fun doing this sunset picture. I got the paper really wet and started adding small spots of color. I let the paint do what it does and blend them to create the pretty sunset on the horrizion. I also let the yellow of the sun go below the horrizion line before I put in the water to add a reflection of the sunset on the water. I also added a little bit of beach and sand to the very front of the picure. After it dried I added the three sail boats with a wet on dry technique.