FIFTH REFINEMENT

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

>My aim today is to refine my abstract by using a different colour to paint with. I am also going to organise the buildings in a different way; instead of laying them all in the same direction I will position some diagonally. This is to make the buildings look like they are spinning around.

Again, I used white acrylic for the background and painted it but instead, this time, I painted over it in the colour red.

I liked this refinement because it created a different atmosphere and perspective when looking at the abstract. Using the red made my abstract have a violent feel instead of a peaceful feeling which I created using the colour blue. I mostly liked how nicely the black blended in with the pink at the top left corner of the piece. The colour red connotes danger and violence it almost creates a story when adding the red buildings together. This piece reminds me of civil war because of the differently shaped buildings symbolizing the city covered in red blood. I really like the idea that this piece could be viewed in different ways but it always tends to be viewed negatively. What I would do differently in this piece is change the colour back to blue. Although it was an amazing experience to witness and create this piece, I still prefer how peaceful my piece looked like when it was blue and the emotions it created. In addition to this, what I would change in this piece is add some red to my next refinement as well as other colours, as I found out how nicely red blends in with white and black in this piece. I will also add more buildings around the background randomly when refining because I like the idea of making the buildings seem like they are twirling as it reminds you of images in your mind that are not too clear and hard to put together- this is why the buildings are twirling arround and are in the wrong place.