Prop Issues

         There were some issues with the obstructive piece, mainly because of its size. It being 6x9 ft, takes an extremely large amount of paint, and so it put a hole in my wallet. To mitigate that, I used previous cans of wall paint and mixed it with darker colors I have available, so that for example, I could have an abundance of pink, red, or blue. However, the drawback to this was that I would be mixing colors with a thick white, leading to them all being lighter toned. As discussed previously, I wanted the piece to be mainly darker colors. Additionally, in the manner of how we were painting (dashes and blotches here and there semi-evenly spread out across the perimeter), there were a open spaces to cover, despite two coats. All these factors made me question the entire process itself, especially as I continued on top of the base using darker blacks, blues, reds (the only colors available to me at the time). However, upon lifting it up, I realized (with a lot of my mom's support, bless her) that the only thing left was to trust the process and continue what I was doing because it was on the right track, there only needed to be much more of it.