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Personal Narrative: My Acrylic Landscape

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My Acrylic Landscape
My landscape acrylic painting is done on canvas, and depicts a cabin in a outdoors environment.The foreground of the landscape consists of a mixture of yellow, green, orange, and dark orange grass. As the viewer 's eyes move up there is a skinny patch of orange, and dark orange grass that passes all the way from the right side to the left. After the skinny patch of orange and yellow grass ,in the middle ground, there is a house that consists of brown, cream, and black. The house has a black roof with a cream color highlighting the top and edges of the roof; the walls use brown with a cream door on it’s left side. The house is getting covered by three bushes made from yellow, brown, black, green, and white. One bush is on the house’s left side, yet only overlap …show more content…

While on its left side the orange grass goes up to two more treelines around the middle of the page, behind the first treeline. The two more tree lines are made up of yellow, green, and brown, the first tree line is shorter than the next and doesn 't travel half the length of the next treeline, and the second one is covering part of one of the mountains in the background. After the middle ground there are two mountains that are covered up by all the tree lines, and both of the mountains use the colors brown, yellow, green, white, and orange. They come to the middle of the page and go below the tree line in the foreground, yet they are taller than the middle grounds two treelines. The farthest mountain is slightly higher than the first and is taller than the first mountain except where both mountains travel behind the foregrounds treeline, and at which they converge at the same height. After the mountains there is the sky which consists of blue, dark blue, and white; above the mountains and the foregrounds treeline there is a outlining dark, blue portion of the lower sky, and a small dark blue portion at the top left of the artwork. In the middle of the sky there are

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