Image of a watercolor painting, post-processed colors & sharpness, Joonas "Astedroid" Tapanainen (2025)

Briefing:

We were assigned to create a watercolor painting in the aftermath of understanding the basics of composition, and how you can achieve a specific view with cropping.

While I was supposed to consciously understand what colors to use and how you can achieve a specific shading, I did the opposite: I just entered my flow-state and started painting like it was nothing. Guess you could argue that I had in a way an understanding of how the colors work from my days in art-classes from both primary and secondary (Lukio) schools on top of what I had revised by the teacher in this class.  

What I learned:

• Color theory (mostly all unconscious doing)

• Creating a unified scene with thought-out coloring that works in harmony.

• Revision in composition

• Patience.