Aqua Colour: Practical

In Lottie's practical lesson we were looking at creating shape and texture onto the face using our aqua colour pallets by krolyan exploring the use of colour onto the face inspired by Otto Dix a German artist whom creates very textural portrait's as seen below.

We were allowed to express ourselves creatively within this session witch was something i enjoyed, i was surprised about my final outcome as during the process i was being very free with the colour choice and shapes i was making at some points i was unsure what i was doing as shown in the first image on the left compared to the image on the right the development on brush strokes. I feel the overall final outcome was not successful as i was just using her face like a canvas were as i feel i should have taken into consideration her features and then maybe it would have worked better but i found a small section on the cheek that i was very happy with this section i visually found successful i liked the layering of colours and textures i had created. The Aqua colours were very easy to work with using then with water was easy and although created the same texture a flatness on the skin to gain any other texture i had to use a eye brow comb.

Jackson Polark was another artist Lottie suggested for us to have a look to for inspiration, the textural element within his work creates a layering of paint creating thickness and depth to the paintings. Jackson's colour choice in the painting below 'Convergence' 1952 is also very clever the underling darkness within the composition compared to the bright colours in the foreground creates a feeling of intertwining depth and combined with the white patches breaks up the overall composition.

Anon, (2014). [image] Available at: http://www.jackson-pollock.org/convergence.jsp [Accessed 5 Oct. 2014].

Through further reaserch i found these images by a french artist called Francise Neilly the use of colour is very similar to the texture Lottie was teaching us as she used in these images a pallet knife to layer the paint creating depth and an interesting textural element. The bottom left hand side of this painting reminds me of my experiment using the Aqua Colour i feel the very deliberate brush stokes create a confidence within the painting.

Anon, (2013). [image] Available at: http://milkypinkyway.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/francoise-nielly-painting-portraits.html [Accessed 5 Oct. 2014].