This week I finished up my project! I made sure to lay a base coat of oil paint underneath the more textural marks, so that I wouldn't have to worry about any of the canvas peaking through. I really enjoyed the process and using a bunch of vibrant colors and interesting textures in order to create the image of the blue mountains. I want to continue with this style of art but work on a larger scale for my next project.
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This week I finished my drawing of the landscape: the Blue Mountains. I tried to captures every curve, or place where the general color changes. Then I started laying a base coat of white and blue on this section of the sky. I then went in with my paintbrush and painted textured strokes of various shades of white, blue, and yellow, creating this, just before sunset, gradient. The painting actually took a lot longer than I excepted and required a lot of paint, since you have to really build up a lot of texture. Hopefully this weekend I can get a lot done and at least have a good portion of the painting done by critiques.
This week I experimented with broken color, using oils to paint these two stalks of wheat. I used a base of cadmium yellow on the right stalk, while the left stalk has a base of yellow ochre. I think I like the right stalk better because it has more texture and is more vibrant. I also didn't originally add blue, but decided that the painting needed some French ultramarine to add shadows. I am really happy with how it turned out, especially from ten feet away. Over the weekend, I want to start working on a section of my actual project, painting entire little sections rather than each object one by one.
This post is for last week. I spent studio time researching broken color and talking with my teacher about how to work with broken color and looking at different examples of Monet and Seurat using broken color. Broken color involves placing two vibrant colors next to each other so that they optically mix as you step away from the painting. This allows for a really interesting textured and vibrant painting, although, up close, the painting will look strange.
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