Today I have continued my painting. I have added a dramatic colour, this is the fluorescent pink. I think that this really pushes the manipulation and brings the whole thing together. I am nearly finished but I will be leaving it for a few weeks now. I am off to Amsterdam next week for an educational trip, then we have our Easter Break which is two weeks, and then for a week after that I have my work experience. I hope that this does not throw me off too much.
Here is a close up of my painting. By clicking on it to enlarge, you will also see how well the colours go together.
Even though they are very different greens to what I originally planned in the Photo Shop image, I think my new ones work with the colours I do have extreamly well.
Today I have started to add the green stamen in. I have taken a few photographs throughout the day, they have been published next.
I took this photograph this morning of my painting upside down. Being the other way up it looks so different. Im not sure weather I like it or not yet.
I chose to take this photograph due to the masses of wood and vegetables laying in the to of the skip. What a "WASTE".
I have been looking at Peter Halley's paintings. He uses bright and bold colours similar to what I like to use in my own paintings.
I have been looking at Mick Finch's newer pieces. This have given me some ideas to have pieces hanging or attached to my own painting.
today I have again added a few more colours to the piece. I have only had a chance for a few hours today, so again not very much progress.
At the end of today I have have added a few more colours and carried on over laying the first colours to thicken them up.
I have not made as much progress today. I have begun to go over some of the colours that I had already done to thicken them up.
Today I have made great progress. After finishing drawing up my painting this morning I began to paint. I have only painted thin coats an have realised that the household paint needs to be applied thickly to give the loose affect that I want.
This photograph show the start of my new painting. I stretched canvas over a 7ft frame and firstly primed it with rabbit skin glue to ensure a tight canvas to work on. I also primed over the top of that with white emulsion, this gave a clean surface to start working on. The next stage was to apply my base coat of orange household paint. once dry I gridded up my image and the canvas to the same dimensions and began drawing and taping the mosaic affect.
This image is my final image that I have produced on PhotoShop. I will be starting to produce the painting in household paints today. I will lay down the base colour of orange and then mask where the lines are. I will then draw on the design and produce the rest of the painting.
This will hopefully be the image that I will use to inform my painting that may be done in household paints. I am still deciding on a colour for the stripes in the background. A red is working quite well, this brings the Lilly forward. I have produced this image all in PhotoShop from a digital photograph of my own.
