Fine Art Painting Workshop

Polished Painting

After testing the 2 coloured pieces I moved onto bigger pieces and created;

• A purple piece with acrylic paint.
• I used multiple layers of college throughout the painting process mixing the layers of paint and ripped up poster pieces.
• A1 Acrylic on Card.
• A green pieces with acrylic and oil paint.
• I created this piece the same way as the purple laying college on top and between layers of paint.
• Oil and Acrylic on Canvas. Roughly 62×91 cm.
• I used a palette knife for the green piece just as another way of exploring my options and continuing my experimentation.

Afterthese i painted another 2 and cut them both into 4 and experimented with the new shapes and compositions.

• The series of pictures below shows my process with the painting.
• The image below is the rough reassembled piece made of the 2 sliced up paintings.
• The next is a refined sketched out guide taken from that previous image.

• From this I created a painting inspired by the messy pieces I assembled together.
• I used the colours from the original.
• Just like my first 2 paintings, I layered college between the layers of paint.

• once I was pleased with this outcome I jumbled up the 2 previous paintings and created to new pieces using those smaller cut up sections.
• I retained the original colours from the pieces and colleges with the billboard and magazine pieces.

I created these pieces with evolution in mind. I was inspired by the plants in the painting. Just like how plants grow and evolve from little seeds into something beautiful I wanted to replicate the same theme of change. With my pieces starting at one point and evolving into something different, while still retaining all the original characteristics from the first.

For the colour schemes of the painting I wanted something bright and bold. I took particular inspiration from Lisa Ballard and Simon McWilliams artists who live in the city and both known to have painted the botanical gardens in very expressive colours, not always sticking to the typical shades of green & yellows .