My second painting, or paintings depending upon how you look at them, were inspired by two things: my childhood (and yes, I know I’m still a kid) and my theme. When I was in elementary school, art was never one of my favorite classes because everything that I drew or painted or sculpted always took too long and never turned out how I wanted them to. Then we had a unit on Sumi Painting, an eastern Asian style of painting, and finally my paintings turned out the way I wanted them to. When I used Sumi paints in this project, I loved how fast they were to complete as well as the few fluid motions that starkly contrasted the repetitive tiny strokes in the second half of the triptych. For the other half of the painting I ditched brushes and instead sharpened small branches and used them as my paintbrushes. This time consuming method of painting allowed me to paint the details that my small amount of Sumi painting skill didn’t let me achieve.