One of the biggest things I improved in this project was my painting skill. I learned how to make a nice gradient color effect with smooth transitions, but I also learned interesting techniques of texture along with that. I'm fairly used to painting with more precision, so when I was told to let go and be smooth I learned a lot and it turned out well. I also learned even more about color mixing and color schemes. In practice using paints, colors are much harder to mix perfectly and replication is hard, so I learned to adapt to this as well. Paints also have different consistencies and thicknesses, along with color vibrancy and ability to mix or be changed in value. I gained a better understanding of all of this throughout the project and found a liking in painting.

Through all of this I learned to use color and the RGB scale to a great extent. I've had photoshop experience in the past, but I learned the new aspect of RGB numbers and how they apply in photos. My photography skills also improved greatly with the teaching of how to focused, controlled pictures. The main three things I used in this project were a camera, photoshop and color mixer.

Observing was definitely a thinking process in this assignment. Between the two different color scales, and the many different schemes that we had to employ, I began to think much more about color relations out in the world. Having to do many different schemes was hard to wrap my mind around often when I would have to match two colors with each other. In the end, I learned a lot more about color than I had ever known before, and I can now more easily see relationships. This helped in a later painting assignment when I had to decide what colors to use for certain paint schemes.