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Project One – ‘Connecting through Making and Thinking’ Week Two
Hi everyone! These posts are being uploaded a bit late aren’t they? straight to the update then.
I mentioned in the last post of this, the first week of the course was to draw six A2 sized drawings. So for the second week, I had to use those drawings and translate them into paint. The task was to use one of each drawing from each category (figure, object, interior/exterior), and then paint the three in the same painting. So here’s the thing,… I’m not a great fan of painting, I’ve only painted when I was in first school, and once during high school, and none of those paintings turned out great. I have given painting a fair go the past week though, and I don’t mind it now, but I’m only good at making paintings that are ‘abstract’, by abstract I mean they only look like they image I’m painting if you take a step back and look from across the room. I did say the same thing about drawing though; I never did like drawing until the foundation last year, so it might turn out that painting is my new muse,… maybe.
So after messing around with paints and seeing how they worked, I went on to paint copies of my drawings. Some have turned out good and you can recognise what I’ve aimed to paint, a couple on the other hand haven’t turned out good. The ones that haven’t worked though are ones which I’ve drawn from imagination and not from an image, so that answers that problem. After deciding what to combine with what, I painted an ear attached to my foot with a pencil on the side (not the greatest combination I know). I now have more paintings which just contain one item. I aim to add other items over the current paintings and use those for ideas for the canvas. The images below are the progress I made over the past week.
Enjoy.
Railston Artworks 