PAINT WORKSHOP: Working on top of Green Underpainting
Posted: March 10, 2014 Filed under: Documentation, Field | Tags: Acrylic Paint, Art, Art Student, art workshop, Black and White, board, dimension, dry brushing, Fine Art, George Ayers, green underpainting, grey, monochrome, painting, shaped painting, tonal variation, tone, tones of grey, working on top of green underpainting, Workshop Leave a commentToday, I attended the paint workshop, where I started working on top of the Green underpainting that I have been working on this week. Prior to this workshop, I had a tutorial with one of our tutors – Susan Adams, who suggested that I worked in monochrome to highlight the one person that is in colour within my work. I think this is a great suggestion and I will experiment with this technique throughout the further stages of my project. In this session, based on the feedback I have been given, I decided to work with a monochrome layer on top of the Green underpainting, and I was interested to see how the green would shine through the greys.
I started to realise that I had already done a lot of the work by putting detail into the underpainting and that I could use it as a guide to work on top of. I focused on creating dimension and tone in the underlay and this definitely helped the success of the paint I was applying on top because I could follow the tones I have considered and thought out previously. I have employed dry brushing techniques here so that the glow of the green underlay is allowed to come through. I have been researching artists that use these techniques within their work and I came across the YouTube video’s of George Ayers, who incorporates much of the detail into a green underpainting and like me uses it more as a guide to work on top of.
I am really pleased with how this piece is turning out. Before these sessions, I never realised quite how useful an underpainting could be and how it really does inform the outcome. It is definitely something I will be condsidering a lot more in my future as an art student and an artist.
I will continue to work on this piece this week and finish it ready for next monday’s session where we will be exhibiting what we have created and presenting what we have learnt.
SHAPED PAINTING: Finished Green Underpainting
Posted: March 7, 2014 Filed under: Documentation, Field | Tags: Acrylic Paint, Art, Art Student, artist, cut out shaped piece, green, green ground, green underpainting, paint, painting, shaped painting, tonal variation, tone, underlay, workshop work Leave a commentI have now finished the green under-painting I have been working on this week, ready to paint the shaped painting on Monday afternoon in the paint workshop.
I have linked my shaped painting into my Hidden loneliness project and painted all the people as white silhouettes apart from one, to show that the one person may as well be alone because there is no interaction with any of the other people around them, they may as well not exist. I feel this heightens loneliness, but this green under-painting has proved to me that colour is very important when portraying loneliness, because I would say this figure looks lonely than in the pieces I have painted in dark and sepia tones.
I am really pleased with the result, I focused on creating tone and highlights and shadows and I feel as if this is definitely evident and I am confident that this underlay with inform the final outcome greatly.
SHAPED PAINTING: Working on Green Under-Painting
Posted: March 4, 2014 Filed under: Documentation, Field | Tags: Acrylic Paint, Art, Art Student, artist, city loneliness, city scape, experimentation, Fine Art, green, green ground, green underpainting, highlights, loneliness, paint, painting, shadows, tonal variation, tone, tones of green, underpainting, workshop work Leave a commentI have started working on the green under-painting of my shaped piece that I started in Mondays paint workshop. When I previously produced a green under-painting of a still life, I found that the tones I had worked with in the green underlay really informed the shadows and highlights that I painted when rendering the top coat. I found that I produced a far more three-dimensional and tonal outcome and that it was easier and quicker to do as I had already thought about tonal variation in the under-painting.
In this shaped piece, I am taking more time on the under-painting and focusing on achieving dimension and tone within it. Also, I was really surprised by how well the green showed through my work when applying the top layer with a method of dry brushing and so this is something I will be working with again. I will document the progress of this painting and work hard to create a highly successful outcome portraying the hidden loneliness of the city. I will incorporate the white silhouette imagery I have been working with into this piece and work at creating a visually successful piece. I have never made a shaped painting, but I can see how it is going to make for an interesting outcome already. I am really enjoying the paint sessions and have already learnt many valuable skills that I have already started applying in my project work.
Rotting fruit: More Detailed Pencil Drawing
Posted: October 9, 2013 Filed under: Contextualisation, Documentation, Subject | Tags: Art, Cross Hatching, Drawing, Fine Art, Pencil, Sketching, tone, Visual Arts 1 CommentHere, I wanted to capture the decay of the food in Far more detail. I have produced highly tonal pencil drawings that I feel capture the essence of the object accurately and show to the viewer exactly how the food looks once decaying.
I enjoy practicing shading and adding depth to an object on paper, it is the only way to improve drawing skill. I tend to focus on mark making within my sketches, favouring cross hatching to add details. I think drawing an object exactly how it helps you to understand it. Without drawing decaying foods, I would have no idea how to progress in my work/practice.
Here, I am practicing trying to make an object look 3D on paper, as previously my drawing style has been quite flat.I looked at the work of M.C.Esher, one of the masters in 3D drawing to influence my tonal shading.
Drawing Hands 1948 – M.C.Esher
TIME: FOOD DECAY: Rotting Apple Drawing – Stop Motion Animation
Posted: October 9, 2013 Filed under: Contextualisation, Documentation, Subject | Tags: Animation, apple, Arts, Decay, Drawing, Fine Art, firsteverstopmotion, gif, Kenntridge, rotting, sketch, Stop motion, tone Leave a commentHere is a quick Stop motion animation I made from my drawings of an apple rotting over time. Here I rubbed out and changed one drawing over a period of time rather than creating lots of different drawings.
I feel I have managed to capture the Decay of the fruit quite successfully and I am confident I will be trying out more stop motions with my drawings and real objects as they are highly relevant to my brief of time. The Drawings take time, the photography and the film/animation takes time to make, they highlight a period of time itself. I may also look into film rather than just a series of photographs.
THE WORK OF WILLIAM KENNTRIDGE was my initial inspiration for making a stop motion animation. His animations are so well thought out and well drawn and also very complex. This is the first stop motion animation I have created and under Kenntridge’s influence, I hope to grow in this field and to make more complex pieces.
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