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Today's post will be fairly short since, as you can see, I didn't do much with my painting. We began class with a short group evaluation where we all got to talk about our projects, share our concerns, and get/give feedback. We all seemed to have questions about how to paint clouds, so we watched a YouTube tutorial afterwards. After mentioning that I wasn't really liking the way the colors of the sky were blending together and transitioning, Mrs. Story advised me to use some retarder. On the places that seemed to need more blending, I squeezed some retarder. Next, I coated my paintbrush with a thin layer of paint and painted on top of the retarder, spreading it across the whole canvas. Slowly I moved upwards, making sure that I painted nice even layers. Then I repainted the whole top half of the sky to make it just a tad more vivid. With all my little alterations, I think my sky looks out a lot better. There's a neat gradient effect and the colors are more visually pleasing than before. My sunset sky definitely isn't perfect, but I plan to move onto the clouds next week, since they will add more dimension to my piece. Hopefully they turn out okay!