This week was the third workshop rotation, this time I was working on the project titled Image, which consists of painting and collage. We began by priming four a4 wooden boards, before using an unprimed a3 wooden board as a canvas for a painted study of an image we had to bring in. therefore I focused on the details of the left eye of a porcelain doll, the painting was made using only an inch thick, paint brush and black and white acrylic paint without water. I found that this made painting far more difficult, it also changed how I used the brush, I had to use it far more dramatically with bolder strokes and thicker paint. Below ive documented the process of painting my a3 monotype study.
Below is the finished painting which I was surprisingly pleased with, I don't enjoy painting as much as drawing therefore I approach most paintings and use numbers 0-8 round tip brushes, this means I can treat the rushes a if I were drawing. Therefore in this image I was expecting to struggle with the larger brush.
Below I have taken a photo of the finished painting and returned to the edit workshop, using Photoshop I have enhanced both the contrast and vibrancy, sharpening some areas and blurring others exposing the subtle colours within and expressing them dramatically.
next I produced a collage from a series of several coloured images that I'd gathered for the workshop from which I had to select a specific area of interest to make a second painting again with the inch wide brush and no water yet this time I could use colour and an a4 primed canvas. Below I have documented the process.
Above is the finished collage from which I have (below) selected the area of interest which I am going to base my painting on.
Above is the finished painting. from this workshop I have gathered that I don't like working with a single inch wide brush, the limitations to the work are both annoying and limiting to my own practice. furthermore I preferred working on the unprimed wooden board as it was a smoother and more appealing work surface.
Below I made a biro study in my sketchbook of the second clay figure that I made without looking. I like this new figure as it resembles existing creatures like wolves or hounds, yet its so distorted that it actually resembles something entirely different. This is something that I find really interesting as now I have a visual representation of the human condition, a sinister unknown beast.
Below Ive combined the human and beast figures in a simple biro drawing, In this image I really liked the head, as it is distorted but the viewer still has a sense that it is a head. I therefore chose to develop the figures head further to do so I made a new drawing using fine liner which is below.
Below is the head which I have developed, which is weird as it resembles in my eyes either a goat or a rabbit, however when considering that his head has been developed from a sinister them (human condition/violence/destruction) its interesting that this has began resembling a goat due to the visual links between the devil and goats. I want to avoid pursuing this idea as i'm more interested in human characteristics.
Above I made a second drawing of he head using white pencil on black card, I have made a drawing from highlights allowing the card to become the low lights. from this I took the image back to the edit workshop and began enhancing the contrast, and exposure, before using a low opacity airbrush with white paint selected to add these orbs as the facial features, sticking to the idea that the character has no facial features but still has the ability to see the viewer.
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