Our main project!

Today we started on our main individual projects to work on until the end of term on 5th July. Some of the pictures below are studies before the main painting begins. The focus is on water, reflections and light (a landscape motif) and how this presents colour and form in different and dynamic ways. The aim is to enable us to combine our learning from last term and this term on complementary greys, blending, broken colour, sfumato and colour contrasts. One or two in the group are using a different motif (subject) to achieve these aims.

Water - artists to look at: Monet (water lilies series and London Thames in the smog series), Samantha French, Jan Fordyce, David Hockey (swimming pools).

Anne (the first ground colours and shapes)

Christine (study/pre main painting/developing technique and blends)

David (laying down the ground colours, understanding the palette)

Karen (study/pre main painting/colours, blending and application technique)  

Margaret (study/tints/complementary greys/subtle warm/cool contrast) 

Moira (laying down ground colour and developing techniques/broken colour/tints/brightness)