Pastel Painting, Bensham, Gateshead: Portraits and Black Projects

Thursday, 18 October 2012

Portraits and Black Projects

This week the group was divided between those wanting to further develop their portraits and those who wanted to start the new project "BLACK". Below we can see the images from all of the paintings done in class. We also took some time out to consider the position of women in art and had an interesting brief talk about how some issues around equality still need addressing even in the current arts arena. The portrait paintings shown below include full images plus a detail.
The BLACK project started today with exercises to learn how black and colours behave when mixed in a certain way. This is to get everyone ready for tackling a subject in BLACK. Here are some of the exercise sheets, apologies if some names are attached to the wrong image!