This is part 3 of my concentration as well as being my large canvas. As far as the subject matter of eggs I really had no reason for choosing them except I asked my friend Zoe what I should paint and she said eggshells. And I thought, they can’t be that hard to paint, but I quickly proved myself very, very wrong. I found a photo online to base my painting off of and did a mini practice sketch in my sketchbook. It seemed to go well so I put a background on my canvas. I decided to make the painting a monochromatic blue with an empty background for aesthetics and to capture a more minimalist feel. After overcoming my fear of working on such a large scale I started to draw the shells. I really struggled with capturing the smoothness of the sides of the shells, the jaggedness of the broken edges, and making the eggs reflect the background. After some time I had something where all the eggshells should be but it wasn’t quite right. I think part of the struggle was trying to keep it minimalist. I had been working on this piece for a few weeks at this point and then I put it away for several months and didn’t look at it. During the time it was gathering dust in the art room, I continued to work on other pieces and I started my rose painting and it helped me find the courage to start my eggshells again. And when I did, I almost completely restarted it. The only thing I kept the same was the size and positioning of the eggs. I painted over all of them, one at a time and added many layers of wet paint. When the paint dried I added some more of the darkest and lightest colours and then add the white cracked lines and the dark spots. After that, I put on a completely new background using all my leftover paint but that background was too dark so the next day I added a lighter background and the shadows. This painting really helped me develop as an artists because it was such a struggle for me but I had to persist with it to complete it. I am really proud of how it ended up.