1. When I was trying to come up with the ideas for sticky situation, I was thinking in a really literal way. I've always like spider webs, drawing a spider for an art project in 8th grade. I decided on the spiderweb minus the spider incorporating the trees and water in the picture to make it more complex.
2. I did think outside the box for the spiderweb putting in the yarn to add the 3D presence of dangling web. I also tried to add in waves to make the blue background look more like water but I was not able to remake the blue background color again and the blues did not blend as well as I wanted.
3. I included repetition with the web, the pattern of the web going around and around the center. I continued going with this idea like a real web would do for the majority of the center of the canvas.
4. I chose acrylic paint over water color because I'm not that experienced with water colors and I liked the way the acrylic blended over the way the water color did. However, that also produced the problem of when I did not make enough of the color, when I blended my own, I could not reproduce the color again which led to my problem with the waves. It did help though, when trying to add value to the trees, making different colors of brown.
5. The mini lessons were fun though I'm not sure they were extremely helpful to the main project except to teach how to blend the colors, adding darks into lights instead of the other way around. Other than that, I think that they were really fun and let us get used to the paint before we used them in the real project.