---Medium: outline of the stencil, acrylic, paint brush
To continue with this experiment I did last week, I have
decided to add in clouds instead of basing it on colours like Michael Tompsett.
This time when doing my experiment, I will be using the outline of the stencil
from last week. I used white acrylic and painted it all over the space in the
outline of the stencil. Afterwards, I used a thin paint brush and drew clouds
using a grey acrylic paint. When drawing a sketch of clouds with a paint brush,
I was looking at the pictures I took from the window of the aeroplane going to
New York which were clouds. I noticed how hard it was to draw clouds in order
to make them look realistic with paint. The challenge of drawing clouds was
very hard as I drew the top of the clouds when we normally see the clouds from beneath,
when obviously looking up to the skies, unless in a plane. After sketching the
clouds, I added some different shades unto the clouds using a darker grey. Then
I added a small bit of light blue paint and swirled the paint brush a little to
create little lines to mark the shape of the clouds.
I think this piece of work was successful as the colours
that I used were vibrant to connote clouds and how they are related to hope and
sometimes mystery. The black was supposed to be grey but turned out as black
when it dried; this made the piece seem slightly unrealistic and cartoon in my
perspective. This can be improved if I tried to take a different step; for
example I could look at a different atmosphere - the sunset. I will reduce the tone of colour that I used
for some of the clouds and smudge some the paint to give it a soft-like
texture.
I repeated the same experiment but instead added a little
of red acrylic to express the atmosphere. Using the exact same way of painting
the clouds as my other experiment, I think this one went better. The clouds
were a little vibrant than before. This was okay because as you can see the
colours are unbalanced which made it look less realistic (or abstract) to me. The
blue at the sides were distracting and extreme so I decided to lessen it a
little in the middle leaving it white -which afterwards I thought made my
painting look unfinished. When I did not start adding the grey I would agree
that it looked more like clouds compared to what it looks like now, so to
improve this I have decided to use a white background and use pencil instead of
a paintbrush to see the difference. This proves that clouds do not always have
to be in grey and do not necessarily look better when painted with the exact
colours.
I started off by adding white as the background and a little
blue to create the atmosphere. I then waited for the white acrylic to dry
before drawing clouds over it. Firstly, I drew the outline of the clouds
carefully before going over it again in order to prevent obvious mistakes.
Secondly, I added more shades to the bottom of the line. This made the clouds
look alive. After that, I used a blue crayon to go over some lines as some
clouds in the picture were coloured. This was really challenging to do because
every time I drew lines over lines it made the clouds look less realistic;
because I was effectively making the clouds look less soft and more structured.
I will agree that this was an improvement to my previous experiment because the
clouds looked less energetic as I used dull colours that copied the real
colours of clouds. I really liked some of the shading I added to some of the
clouds as it made it look baroque. What I would do differently next time, is
make this look similar to Michael Tompsett’s piece by adding more vibrant colours
whilst still continuing with the idea of clouds as we see the skyline (clouds) within the building.
This time I added dark blue as the background instead of
white like Michael Tompsett would do. Next, I painted clouds using black
acrylic and painted clouds over the black acrylic with white paint. I then
sprinkled some emulsion over the abstract to make it baroque and create a thick
texture. Next, I used a heat gun to make the abstract dry. I accidentally burnt
the page which, on the other hand, I thought made my abstract look interesting
as it added colour and made my work different. Furthermore, I had not used the
colour brown yet.
Surprisingly, I really liked this work more than the other
experiments as this was very expressive compared to my other work. The colours
used made the abstract look less simple in comparison to the previous
experiment. I think the white clouds over the black and blue background was
interesting to see. This is because the colours used are complete opposites in
the colour wheel which came together beautifully. The thick blue with the white
and black made the abstract in my perspective look fluid as some of the brush
marks and the swirls looks like marks that are of paint recently thrown onto
paper. Relating to Michael Tompsett, I would say that our pieces are alike to each other’s because I focused on
what he focused on which was negative space. My work in comparison to his is
more vibrant than his as I used dark and light colours mixed whilst he uses
light primary colours. I preferred the first experiment I did because I used a
different technique but in the same style or direction as the artist because
you could actually see the building from within the abstract. I think using negative
space was a good choice because it gave me the chance to become more expressive
with paint. Michael Tompsett’s work mainly inspired my final piece as it gave
me the idea of putting the skyline within the buildings instead of focusing on
just skyline. 
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