17.05.2011

Transferring blind drawing into paint

Had a little review of my work throughout painting today with the class. We hung up our pieces on the walls and spoke about the techniques we used, if we like it or not and why and listened to the class's thoughts and ideas. By doing this, I heard good and bad comments about my work, some had favourites and some were quiet. I was suggested on how to improve and which direction i should develop my work to.

To start off these pieces, simply used acrylic paint that i applied with cardboard onto A3 paper.
This piece and the one below are from my blind drawings i did previously onto graph paper, of which i simply transferred into paint. Instead of blind painting I took the easy option and pretty much copied it.

This piece is different to the once above because I went into the wet paint of used the end of the paintbrush to give a scratched out zig-zag effect which i feel goes really well with the style.

This is a blind painting of my class mate Shaun Herrington. I applied red and yellow acrylic as my base colour and a darker red on top. I wanted to keep quite a lot of white space to give it depth almost. As i was doing this piece, i decided to do it as a blind painting but found it hard as i had to keep re applying paint onto my brush.
I do like this piece however  because it is on A3, i feel it would be better as A5 maybe.

I have used the same technique as my second piece, used the end of the brush to scratch into the wet paint to get my blind drawing. I feel that this shows different techniques of applying paint as the red in the background shows through the scratched out yellow paint. This piece is off another class mate, Julie.

Right... well... I found a photograph from the newspaper of a town in China and i thought to paint it, not really really realising how difficult it would be. This piece is actually un-finished because I didn't feel connected to it.
However, it shows another different type of painting technique, showing an almost painting palette look as i slightly mixed my colours onto the paper to give this messy effect.

Here, shows a different type of canvas, this is plywood that i found already primed with white paint.
I wanted to show action and excitement in the piece as i moved and swerved my large paint brush around. The movement is shown as the paint fades through out the strokes. I also added solid blocks of colour and splash marks to give it that little bit of excitement and enthusiasm.
I particularly like this piece because it actually took me roughly 1 minute to produce!