More development for Self Directed

A4 MDF Acrylic and b&w Emulsion

This was my first painting where I began thinking properly about what colours I am going to use and they way i'm going to arrange them. I moved away from applying the paint quickly and just adding the bold black lines after for a more considered way of working. The composition of this painting initially came from a photograph, but instead of trying to emulate the colours of the original I have chosen to pick out sections - or blocks - so that it gives a rather distorted but still somewhat harmonious outcome.

Further Self Directed Development

A4 MDF, Acrylic (All)

I have continued experimenting on a small scale with these A4 MDF paintings. I have tried studying different locations around Leicester. I am beginning to move away from using photographs and am now getting the basic colours down from life and working on them further in the studio. Some of these have worked better than others, I think this is mainly due to some locations lend themselves well to this style of painting that focuses heavily on depth, and others do not. As you can see I am still trying to create a sense of ambiguity within these paintings by adding small and subtle hints of colours.

Self Directed Development

A4 MDF Painting

For this painting I chose to use a section of a photograph of a bridge I took on the river Soar. The painting has therefore become less figurative and more of a study of line and their relationship to one another. Some of my peers saw that it resembles a birds eye view of a landscape, almost like a map. The thick bold lines I got from the zooming in process were similar to that of some of klee's later more bolder work, or Franz Kline's 'Cardinal'. I am particularly interested in the way the colours and the line unite harmoniously in 'Wald-Hexen' and the directness and speed in which Kline appears to have made his lines.

Paul Klee - Wald-Hexen 1938 99x74 cm.         Franz Kline Cardinal 1950 200x150cm

Self Directed - Intitial Paintings

A4 MDF board paintings, Acrylic

To start this self directed project I have began to explore I thread which emerged from my term 1 project where I was studying the urban environment around Leicester. I am particularly interested the varying structures that form the landscape. In my initial paintings I wanted to emphasise certain structural elements of the subject, but also to retain a sense of ambiguity to these paintings. I did this by rapidly painting the outline with a large brush and then highlighting certain sections with thick black Franz Kline-esque lines.