SEVENTH REFINEMENT

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

>My aim today is to draw some of the buildings that I had cut an outline of. I am also going to focus more on adding my technique into the piece and making it to stand out.

Firstly, I did the same steps I normally do. Secondly, I looked at the pictures I took in New York and London and drew buildings from the pictures onto the cut-out buildings. Thirdly, I made sure that I place the buildings at different angles. Fourthly, I added my technique and made sure I painted it in the middle and at the sides so that it took up space. I used the colour black first- mostly in the corner of my piece so that my technique would stand out more. I tried combining black and white to add the grey colour in the middle as I did not want black to be the highlight of the piece.

 

 

I thought this was successful because of the buildings I used and how my technique was very visible in this piece. I did not draw some buildings from the pictures I looked at because drawing the outline of well-known buildings would question a viewer as to whether the outline was of that particular (famous) building. For example in the middle we have “Big ben” and at the side a church that is also well known in London. This would allow the viewer to imagine this building more clearly as they are more likely to have seen it before. In my opinion, in this abstract I left little blank spaces which distracted viewers from the main abstract; the blank spaces stood out because they were different to the rest of the piece. Therefore, the white spaces make my piece more eye-catching to viewers. Next time, what I would do differently is use pen instead of pencil to make the buildings stand out more. I will also use the colour red again as I think it made the painting livelier and more interesting because it looks different.