Painting!

After my first tutorial with Virginia, I decided to rethink what my project was actually going to be about, forgoing the idea of illustration and started to think more about the negative space in my work that I had unintentionally focused on. After struggling with working on a smaller scale, I made the decision to scale my work up and dive into painting. I made a conscious effort to try and use bright, vibrant colours in order to move away from just workin in monochrome. I found working wet on wet with acrylic to be difficult due to the fact it felt like I didn't have a lot of control over the medium.

I felt that this was the most successfull piece out of the two painting that I made because the form of the skull was a lot looser in terms of brushstrokes, allowing a more abstract view of the work to be taken rather than as a definite. I also didn't started on a painted background for this piece, I drew the shape of the skull in with a bright yellow and then painted around it, letting the transparency of the lighter foregrounf interact with the dark background.

With this painting, the solid background meant that it was harder to build up the foreground with lighter colours, meaning that I used a darker colour for the horns in order to use less layers for the paint. Going forward, I think I'm going to stick with the former method of painting.

Artists that I was looking at while making these were Picasso and Van Gogh for the way they used colour and the former played around with shape and dismantling it.