As I'd never really delved into painting before this course, I thought I'd give it a try, so I started by following Tony's tutorial with water colours,
In the piece I tried to lay down blocks of solid colour first and then add in black outlines later on to suggest the building, I like the look of the technique but I don't think I executed it quite right. My perspective is all wrong, but at this early stage I was still learning about perspective. If I could go back I would have put more effort into getting the perspective correct before building up the colours. For the trees I used a technique taught in lesson which was a simple one of using the texture of the paper to your advantage to suggest the leaves on the trees, I think this really worked and was very happy with it.
Moving forward I decided to venture into acrylics, this is something I've always been interested in trying.
These two pieces were created using mainly acrylics, the first was created using a piece of card to apply the paint. I scraped down to create the shapes for the buildings and went on to add detail with pastels. I liked the painting side to this, but I didn't enjoy creating the whole piece with just acrylic and felt it needed something else. The second piece was more of an experiment, I wanted to try and lay down some block colours and planned to build it up light in front to dark at the back, this is unfinished as I decided I didn't quite like painting the buildings in, the background I really thought worked with acrylic but the buildings needed to be created via another medium.
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