WEEK 6 & 7

Painting in Acrylic

Experimenting with colour

The next two weeks will be your chance to delve into colour! This should be seen as an extension of your previous works, not something new but a slight shift in how your experience chiaroscuro. You will still be priming your surface with gesso and applying a ground that suggests your implied colour range. You must use reference material you have found from your proposal study or further reference you have now gathered due to your intense engagement in your journey in art!

For greater understanding of the colour spectrum in visual art see this link colour theory, this will help inform your journal.

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What do I paint? Again this will be subjective to each individual depending on your proposal, however the idea is the same for all.

• Find images from your proposal that you have not used yet that have some strong compositional elements. You may use the whole image or isolate an area as a focus
• You might be a person that needs to construct an image by combining different photographs through a collage technique to arrange your composition, this can be done digitally or through traditional collage techniques

How do I paint?

There is little difference to your technique when using colour in these studies when compared to your thumbnail works or your black and white. Your focus is still on drawing as your primary goal, remember to pull your brush not push it to gain greater control. You will still be priming and grounding your work and working to the goal of achieving strong contrasts between light and dark, keep your colour palette simple, don't over crowd your work or it might become muddy, your interest at this stage is slowly introduce the idea that colour will extend your visual ideas into a new way of being seen by the viewer. See the below student exemplars from previous years to help understand this.

Aimee Oliver L3 2017

Shannon Roscoe L3 2018

Note the above student exemplars have used both observational work and a collage technique to combine images to create something new from the original source reference.

Remember to photograph your process as you go and insert these into your digital journal. Reflect on your investigation using art terminology and try and reference any artist models you might be looking at to inform your work. Your digital journal is an ongoing process of reflection that must work to assist you gaining a deeper understanding of your process and help to feed forward to your future work.