WEEK 5

MONOCHROMATIC PAINTING STUDY

This week should be an exercise in understanding wet media. Refer to your reference from your proposal studies and gather five images that you would be keen to investigate in paint.

Thumbnail Five:

Your first task is to experiment in a thumbnail format, these works can be no bigger than your phone, trace around it if you need to to give a picture plane to work within. You will need to prime your surface with GESSO and apply a ground colour, this should be a neutral hue that suggests the colour you will work in. These works should be fast, and focus on the fluidity of paint, practicing pulling (not pushing) your brush around the surface to create marks. Focus on strong contrasts between light and dark (chiaroscuro) or alternately the contrast of line and wash. Below is a good example of a previous student who found a balance between both chiaroscuro and line and wash techniques.

Ella Fitzgerald L3 2017