A Typical Autumn Saturday Afternoon in New England

For my 2nd piece, I painted a picture that I call "A Typical Autumn Saturday Afternoon in New England." For creating this piece of artwork, I used acrylic paints and white paper. This piece of artwork is 9.5" h and 7.5" d. This piece of artwork has a sky blue color as the background, and an enormous tree in the foreground. In this tree, there are leaves the color of what they would be around this time of year in New England; red, orange, yellow, and brown. Also, in this picture, I included a small man raking the falling leaves to emphasize the largeness of the tree. Another thing that I added to make this painting look more realistic, is the bag that the leaves are being put into from Lows. I think that the idea and the design turned out well, but I think that the craftsmanship could have been better. I think that I should have made this picture should have been less 'cartoon looking,' and more realistic looking. This is the only thing that I wish that I could change in this picture. The meaning of this picture is to exaggerate how beautiful the trees may be in New England towards this time of year, but it mostly exaggerates how much work there is to it too. What I learned most about doing with this project is to always do the background layer first! In my opinion, I think that making this picture more detailed would make it more meaningful to me. I really enjoyed painting this past quarter, but I think that I should expand my horizons and use other materials in my artwork too.