Today in Painting, we looked at complementary colours and shadows. I drew a red circle and stared at it for ages, then looked at a blank part of the page and saw that the after-image was pale turquoise. I tried again with purple and got a pale yellow after-image.
The teacher set up a blue and orange still life, and got us to think about using blue elements in the orange parts, and orange in the blue parts. I'm happy with this and think the reflection of the oranges works well. This is only my third attempt with acrylic, and the bottle does look like it's made of glass, and the middle orange's tummy button (?) looks effective, I marked that with the hard end of the brush. I added a mottled teal background (harmonious with the blue bottle) because I thought the white space looked a bit empty and I suspected it would give me a better idea of how the colours in the main subject were working out. We were supposed to be experimenting with impasto but I don't like that -- using lots of paint is expensive, and using a little but thickening it makes it a complete pain to handle. I will tackle impasto at some point, but today was not the day!
Funnily enough, I hate oranges.
In Life Drawing, like last time we drew a full-page figure, trying to get it as accurate as possible. Then we had to work out where the shading was and build it up using collage, a mosaic of tiny bits of scrap paper and newspaper. I didn't think I'd like doing this -- I found it tricky to get the figure right and then it seemed a shame to start slapping glue on it. But I love the effect of the tiny newsprint words creating shading, so I'm going to keep experimenting with it and finish the picture properly when I get a chance.
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