SIXTH REFINEMENT

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

>My aim today is to add more buildings around the piece so that it looks busier and like a dream (connoting mental imagery). I will mainly be focusing on blue paint to create a peaceful mood in my abstract whilst adding red paint into the abstract for contrast. Focusing on the bad (red) and good (blue) that has happened in the past.

This time I used the soft part of the sponge and I spread the watery blue paint over the page as a background before putting all the buildings together and painting over it.

 

I think this refinement worked well but it was a little disappointing. I think the black acrylic was too much and my technique was not seen in the abstract. The way I layered the abstract was different to the way I used to do it, as it used to be more expressive as I used to use my technique more. I thought there was less of everything which made the abstract less appealing to me. For my next refinement, I am going to add more of my technique and make it stand out by maybe adding a little black to it. In order for my refinement to be livelier, I have decided to draw buildings in detail.