Still life with Flowers

This first sketch of the flower is quite large to scale and it wouldn't allow me to fit a whole image onto my a free page although answer the sort of size I would feel more comfortable creating this image with as it gives me more room to play with the details and quality The … Continue reading Still life with Flowers

Drawing in paint

I approached this task by firstly finding an arrangement in my studio and sketched the entire view this allowed me to figure out the scale should be a lot bigger to allow me to paint the smaller details from this first sketch I knew not to draw the drawers and in preparation My next preparation … Continue reading Drawing in paint

Broken or Tertiary colours

On previously prepared grey A4 pages, I first created a scale between orange/red to green/blue. Using a cadmium red hue to start, i began added a emerald and ultramarine mix. This created a very dark tone so to combat this and make this scale have consistent tonal values I added titanium white. Shifting the colour … Continue reading Broken or Tertiary colours

Primary and secondary colour mixing

To figure out which colours I would be using for this test, I firstly did some individual colour testing with yellows (fluorescent yellow, lemon yellow, primary yellow, cadmium yellow hue, yellow orche and raw sienna), Reds (cadmium red, primary red and vermillion) Blues (Ultramarine, Cerulean blue and primary blue) I then created a graded sequence … Continue reading Primary and secondary colour mixing

Mixing Greys – anachromatic scale

I created the grey scale using Mars Black and Titanium white on pre-stretched A3 cartridge paper. My first two attempts where created by blending a small amount of black into the white or already tinted colours created throughout this task. I found that by creating a scale by matching to a colour guide, I spent … Continue reading Mixing Greys – anachromatic scale

Assignment one

Final Piece I am very proud of this work, I had not ever completed a landscape painting before this. I really enjoyed creating this piece.My strengths have never been in composition so I was very aware when preparing to paint. I was very careful when creating the preliminary drawings which was important to the initial … Continue reading Assignment one

Different coloured grounds

I approached this task by trying to find the right objects that would best suit this task creating preliminary drawings of found objects using both pencil and charcoal. Tonal Study on white ground Tonal Study on a Dark Ground

Monochrome studies

Starting in my A3 project sketchbook I tested methods of drawing the tree outlines, tested composition and evaluated different images. I then tested methods with paint in my sketchbook by gesso priming the pages before creating micro A5 versions to test the final results. Both pieces together before adding details For the A2 piece the … Continue reading Monochrome studies

Tonally graded wash / Overlaying washes / Opaque colour mixing

Examples of tonally graded wash sheets created for this exerice I started this project focusing on creating the transparent graded sheets, I chose to use strong pigmented colours; Ultramarine, Phthalo Green, Violet and to test colour difference Primary Blue. Creating the different levels of watery mixtures from a strong, vivid opaque colour, to semi-transparent, then … Continue reading Tonally graded wash / Overlaying washes / Opaque colour mixing

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