EIGHT REFINEMENTS

---Materials: a crafting knife, a cutting mat, pages from sketchbook, white charcoal, a sponge, a paint brush, a pen, blue, white, black and red acrylic.

>My aim today is to make my abstract busier by using paint to cover up black spaces. I will also be using pen instead of pencil to make the buildings stand out. Also, I will try speed drawing because images in our mind do not tend to be clear. The colour red will be added in again but this time mixed with white creating the colour pink so that the colour is less violent and blends in nicely with the blue.

I used the soft part of the sponge to smudge white acrylic paint onto the background before adding the blue paint (with the hard part of the sponge).  I then started cutting out buildings and adding my technique and this time brushing my technique of with the sponge. This made my technique have a softer texture and blended in nicely with the background. Learning from my past refinement, I used a paint brush and put it at the end or corner of my circular technique and dragged the paint down carefully. I added black acrylic to the bottom and the side of my technique; I then used a pen to quickly draw some of the buildings- when doing this I drew sections of buildings and not all of it and the parts that were missing I covered up with acrylic.

 

 

I really think this was the most successful piece compared to all of my previous refinements. The colours were not too dark or too light creating a perfect balance for my abstract. The way I laid out my technique was amasing and the best so far, as my technique was at the top, sides, bottom and middle of the piece. This made my abstract look busy but still organised. I mostly liked the “Big Ben” that I drew in speed. When looking at the building it looks like it is fading away. I used black paint at the bottom but no black paint at the top which was also interesting to look at because in my opinion symbolized good and bad or heaven and hell. What I would do next time, is use the transfer technique and use acetate of a printed out building instead of drawing it. This would make the buildings even clearer to see. To make the background even more interesting I have decided to use a bunch of thread to leave an interesting line behind in the background.