This is my final product of my choice project. I painted over it many times and it was very difficult to get all of the different values in, but i finally decided to do just one single balloon instead of a whole group, and I like the result much better this way. I am also happy with the shadow that I added behind the balloon and the color scheme that I used.
Preparing to create this piece took lots of time. I had to mix all of my colors to make sure I was getting the shades I wanted for the reflections, I had to constantly sketch in where I wanted the different values to be on my balloon, and I had to find a good picture to base my final piece on. The one I found was actually a video, and the person creating the balloon was using stencils and spray paint. I had a very different approach, using regular old paintbrushes and acrylic paint, so my hopes were not too high. I just used the stencil video to get an idea of where I wanted the light to hit the balloon and where my lights and darks would be. Now that it's complete, if I stand far away from the painting without glasses on, I'm actually quite content with the final result.
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