Paintings//Photographs

I created paintings that purely consist of different shades of the same colour, using oil paint on A4 paper or canvas board. The aim of this was to simply practice painting and mixing colours, and to paint just because I wanted to.
I then thought about paintings and photographs of paintings. A painting has so many layers and textures (homogeneous), but when photographed is just one smooth texture (heterogeneous), which completely changes the painting. The material on which the painting is created also alters the look of the painting. A lot of the time we only see pictures of paintings on the internet or in books, which provides a completely different experience to viewing the actual painting.
The photographs on the post are of my paintings, but give a very different effect to that of seeing the paintings I actually made.

Painting Workshop//Finished Piece

This is the finished product of my 6 week painting workshop.
I am very pleased with the painting; I think the piece works well as a whole, and the colours I achieved were very successful.

Workshop//Painting

In this weeks workshop I worked over the original figure that I started last week, but in stronger colours, with stronger emphasis on the textures and effects made by the paint. I concentrated more on mixing the right colours that will show through on the final piece, and thought a lot about which colours worked best together. I also worked a lot with which textures I could make out of the oil paint and which ones would work best on which parts of the painting. Last week was about simply marking out the figure with colours as guidelines, but this week was much more about conscious decision making.

Workshop//Painting

This week in my painting workshop I started on my large scale oil painting on canvas. It was a challenge, but I feel like it was successful as a starting point and will help me to achieve an interesting final piece.

I started off by marking out the basic shape of the figure and the background in a yellowy colour,
and then started blocking in the background.

After I had blocked in the background colour, I added the starting colours of the figure.
These aren't exactly the colours I wanted to achieve as we only had a limited range of colours, so
I will be working over/with these. 

Workshop//Painting

In our second painting workshop last week, we took the collages and paintings on top of magazine pages we had made in the first week, and cut them up to create new images. We then created paintings based on the new images we made, using simple watercolour paint colours.

The next stage of the workshop will be creating large scale oil paintings based on the paintings from last week. Dale has provided us with 5 foot canvases, which we primed and prepared this week, ready to start on next week. I have never worked as large scale as this, or painted anything like this before, but I am excited to experiment, especially with oil paints.