Still life with colour used to evoke mood

I straight away wanted to paint something that evoked the mood of the current climate, the world paused, cautious, fearful and uncertain. We are in a prominent time that will be in history books. Coronavirus - Covid19. To me the colours of the time speak greys, blues, green of varied tones. White reminds me of … Continue reading Still life with colour used to evoke mood

Still life with Complementary Colours

I chose a YSL Orange leather bag with a gold chain and dangles. Sitting on top of a plastic blue bag. I kept the background white but used a texture for the bottom to allow easier viewing. I sketched the image prior to painting. I enjoyed the process of creating a line image as I … Continue reading Still life with Complementary Colours

Complementary colours

For this exercise, I created a 12 colour wheel on an earlier prepared grey A4 page. Firstly I painted the primary colours and secondary colours then made the tertiary colours. There are 6 tertiary colours, each made by mixing a primary colour with an adjacent secondary colour. The image above shows me creating complimentary colours … Continue reading Complementary colours

Colour Accuracy

My chosen objects for this exercise, I chose these because of their solid forms, patterns and different colours. I first drew with compressed charcoal. I used a collection of white, light grey, medium dark grey, dark grey and black to create the image pictured above. This expresses the tonal value of my chosen subjects without … Continue reading Colour Accuracy

Exploring Contrasts

Here I explored how each colour can appear when surrounded by different colours Here I am exploring how pale warm grey can alter with my colours closely related. Here is a list of the colours I surrounded my main colours with and my noticed results while doing this exercise I am able to see my … Continue reading Exploring Contrasts

Still life with man-made objects

Here is a selection of photo I took trying to find the ideal arrangement to paint. I have chosen the fabric as I have been finding it a little bit boring to create a still life. This is inspired by Kate Brinkworth. I first took a lot of photos to see the different angles In … Continue reading Still life with man-made objects

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