Art club experiment

Yesterday I attended the art club organised my fellow classmates Cveta, Ira and Katarina; it had indeed been an experiment, for I am by far not a visual artist, as I had mentioned in a previous post. The theme of that session was drawing landscapes, however I decided to get away with just producing an image of a lonely tree which I found standing against the grey skies just outside of the school building. After I had sketched a simple base whilst observing my object outside in the cold, I retreated into the warmth of the college in order to go over the messy lines with a black ink pen: that way I hope to make the image stand out more explicitly against the colours which I was going to employ. In the end I chose in favour of watercolours as opposed to ordinary paint since I figured that by blending in the different tones I could deliver the brightness of autumn in contrast with the gloomy skies much more successfully. Ultimately, I came up with the following, and I can't entirely say that I'm satisfied with my work: 

My version of a landscape

I was quite pleased with how the leaves turned out since I managed to amalgam the red, yellow and orange to form a fiery representation of the autumn colours. The muted silver of the sky also came out quite good, all thanks to the dirty water that I used. Otherwise, I messed up a little with the purple since in real life the plants were actually of a whitish tone, whilst the idea of making both the fence and the shrubs the exact same colour wasn't the brightest one ever. If I were to do this again, I should definitely improve my time management since at the end I rushed in order to finish my piece by a certain hour, and that had significantly altered the quality of my performance. I should also consider paying greater attention to the way I combine the colours so that the scenery would look more realistic. Besides, I could include more entities within my work to reduce running the risk of the final piece looking rather empty, just like the one I had produced. 

Overall, I have really enjoyed attending the club since I was able to undertake a new challenge and also develop some skills to an extent, as I have never really used watercolours before (since I hardly ever involve myself with visual arts), and I've received a few tips from my classmates on how to apply them correctly. I may consider participating more often in this activity as it has been very interesting for me as I was able to observe the amazing work of the artistic students, as well as to produce a humble addition of my own to their incredible collection.