1. How did you develop your craft with digital camera and photoshop in this project? What tools, methods and materials were essential to your success? How did you use your skills of observation? 
I used my capabilities with a digital camera to take a gray scale picture, allowing me to see a larger contrast in light and dark, giving the shadows more visibility. Allowing to see these differences created a large impact in my painting, as I was able to more precisely shade in and paint these contrasts. My usage of digital technology and observational skills created for a more precise and expressive painting.
 
2. Explain the choices you made concerning the design of your color palette for the digital diptychs and your paintings:
 
a. Did the process of“finding examples”and creating diptychs influence your later painting choices? 
The process of finding example and creating diptychs influenced my choices in painting. I found myself intrigued by cool colors such as blue and green. The cool colors allowed for the creative pairing of diptychs. I separated multicolor paintings and single color paintings. The pairing of cool colors created reasonable diptychs.
 
b. Explain how the“expressive”and/or“formal”qualities of color influenced your choices.
I found there to be much contrast from light to dark, creating expressive line qualities and offering opportunity for  the creation of expressive painting. These cool colors that I used tend to easily differ from light to dark, allowing me to create the contrasts in color.



3. How did you develop your craft of painting? What did you learn about the“tools”of painting? Which specific insights gained in your practice led directly to your becoming a more confident “painter”? How did you use your skills of observation? 
With each painting, I experimented with different brush strokes, creating unique textures and expression of line quality. Using these different painting techniques allowed me to become more confident in the future as I continue to paint, I will have a wider variety of painting styles to select from. 



4. How has this project taught you to observe color? 
This project has taught me to observe color as I know the effects of using cool and warm colors and its contrast when separating light and dark colors.

Color Scheme Paintings

This project is not currently complete, but it is a work in progress. Both paintings are of the same object, but using different color schemes and painting styles. My left painting is monochromatic, using  abrupt changes in color, creating for a unique composition. My right painting is triadic, using stippling, creating texture on the painting.