Reflecting on my work so far:
- Definitely prefer and enjoyed the more nature-based landscapes
- Decided to build on the Scottish landscapes I had been practicing with tonal studies
- Really enjoyed the atmospheric perspective and approach, want to apply it
- Inspired by impressionism and some of the more modern abstract/surreal/fantastical landscapes focusing the below specific works though it bothers me that none of these artists are women!
- Monet’s Haystacks at Hiver (Atmospheric perspective and expressive mark making)
- Van Gogh’s Starry Night (curvy-mark making)
- Ferdinand Hodler’s (funky clouds)
- David Hockney’s Garrowby Hill (Exaggerated curves and rolling hills and farmland)
- Giovanni Giacometti’s Lake Engadin (Intense colours and light pointillism)
- Eric Ravillious’ rolling hills (rolling hills and contours)
- Media choice ideas:
- Pastel in layers
- Pastel and conte
- pastel and bolder oil pastel for foreground?
- oil pastel? might be too bold for the atmospheric approach
- Water colour pencil? probably not bold/deep enough coloured for what I prefer
- more surreal and use pens/alcohol markers/poscas?
- Charcoal for a black and white monochrome approach? Prefer colour..
Tied out some thumbnails, formats and styles – I went for a more ‘rolling’ effect with more exaggerated curves then tried out some media combinations: pastel, oil pastel, neon water colour crayons, water colour pencil and tried to get some nice colour combinations
I did a smaller study of what I was going for also trying out materials and noting things I wanted to fix moving forward. My main issues was choosing paper as I could not find water colour paper bigger than A3 so I had to try A2 cartridge paper.
Water colour pencil, neon crayon water colour, oil pastel and a tiny bit of acrylic paint for the white cloud:
Reflections:
- Water colour paper would have probably worked better
- pastel then oil pastel doesn’t work that well as it rubs off the pastel
- Water colour of any kind when dry provides a good base for other media on top
- was trying to stylise more though I could have exaggerated the fence even more I think to really make it more central and bigger at the left
- Difficult getting the tones and blue-green gradation for the atmospheric perspective I was trying for as a lot of dark, shadow and colours in the middle section were brighter than some of the closer elements.
- Wonder if taking out the dark trees in the middle or making them less evident would help the aerial perspective even if this is more true to the photo
- Tried out another drawing using pastel only and really using short stubby strokes to be more impressionist and I warped the colours more and tried to be more abstract
- Still struggle to apply colour tone thickly – above could have been bolder I think
- Harder to be abstract than I thought! I kept verging towards trying to be realistic
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