I made when I was in HS
Hey! I wanted to share some paintings I made when I was in high school :)
Back then I was only able to afford watercolors so that was what I only used, and it’s still my favorite medium to paint with.
The first two were made at like 3am during the pandemic. Did anyone else’s sleep schedule get messed up during that time? Anyways, the portrait was just randomly put together, it doesn’t have a meaning to it. I like making my art be interpreted by the viewer sometimes bc I honestly tend to just put pretty colors on a page.
The house painting is a typical house you would see in Dominican Republic, which is where I’m from. And it’s surrounded my plants and landscape that you would usually see on the island. (Also I tried to make the clouds kinda look like the mountains that are found there. Can u tell? hehe)
The last one was the only one that was a school assignment but I love that painting. It was one of the first art pieces I was actually proud of. (I still can’t paint watercolor clouds tho lol)
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