Cubist Landscapes - Fine Art Workshop Day 4

For my final session in the Fine Art workshop, my task was to create an abstract landscape. I chose to base my landscape on cubism as i enjoyed the cubism portraits workshop.
To do this, my group and i were given a lot of toy squares and triangles that were all painted different colours. We had to collect as many of them as we wanted, and arrange them in landscape type formation. Once we had done this, we were told to draw the shapes out onto a stretched piece of paper.  We then had to paint them, i decided to use brusho inks and water as the colours were brighter than acrylic or watercolour paint. Once i had done this, my group and i were advised to sprinkle salt over the paints before they were dry, as the salt took away the colour to give an interesting 'grainy' look.
I enjoyed this workshop as it was easy but the outcomes looked really good and intricate. I also learnt that salt took away the colour from brusho inks and watercolours, which was a new technique that i liked experimenting with.

My wooden shapes in the landscape formation.

My finished cubist landscape.

Abstract Painting - Fine Art Workshop Day 3

In my third session in this workshop, we were taught how to paint in an abstract style.
To start with, we were asked to stretch an A2 sheet of paper, and find a place around the set up in the middle of the room, that we really liked.
After we had done this, we had to get a paint pallet and put yellow, red and blue paint in it.
We had to pain the set up in-front of us using only the three colours of paint we were given. With this, we were able to be really messy with our work, as we had to hold the paintbrush half way down. Once we had finished with the three colours we were able to add other colours on top, such as green and brown.
I found this really fun as the painting wasn't controlled, it was free and loose. I also liked how we could layer the paints up to get different effects.

The set up that we were given.

My painting before i added more colours.

My finished abstract painting

Surrealism - Fine Art Workshop Day 2

For my second day in the Fine art workshop, we were asked to paint objects in the surrealism style.
We had to sit around a desk filled with objects, and were asked to paint them.
To paint these objects in a surrealism style, i decided to make the edges of the objects look as  if they're melting, and some of them even bending as if the entire object was melting.
I found this session very hard, as i struggled to paint in the surrealism style. This is because i found it very hard to draw the objects in-front of me realistically in the first place, never mind adding to it to make it look like it was part of the surrealism style.

The set up that we had to paint from.

My Finished painting

Cubist Portraits - Fine Art Workshop Day 1

For the first day in the Fine Art workshop, my group and i looked at the art movement Cubism. We particularly looked at the cubist portraits done by Pablo Picasso.
We were asked to stretch a sheet of A2 paper and were told to draw lots of large triangles/squares on the page to fill it.
Once we had done this, we were told to get a mirror, and in the shapes we previously drew, draw what we saw in the mirror. We were advised not to be too accurate as our portraits were to be as abstract as possible.
I decided that i didn't want my self portrait to be realistic so i drew parts of my face again but in different shapes. Once we had finished drawing, we were able to paint our portraits. To ensure that mine was as abstract as it could be, i took inspiration from the colours that Pablo Picasso used in his portraits. An example of this is that i used a green/yellow tone for my skin and a dark blue for my hair. I also decided to draw around some of the shapes i drew on the page  at the beginning of the session, to add a little more sharpness to my self-portrait.

My Finished Self-Portrait.

I really enjoyed this workshop, i found it fun and a challenge. I particularly enjoyed painting the self portrait as it was fun to experiment with colours and not have to use realistic colours.