Since i started at Sixth form, my main focus has been getting better and gaining more painting techniques as the majority of my paintings end up looking like giant colourful blobs that just sit and stare at you in the face.
One of the best things about being in Sixth form is that you get to have every art teacher in the school, which also means that they all specialise in one subject. So when in lessons you are being taught only one thing that they are specialising in. Which also means that if you have one lesson, that`s an hour of learning different techniques and an hour of working on something new! Which means that you have that full hour before the next teacher comes in, to work on the new techniques learned and you get to compare them to other students techniques.
This canvas was actually designed by my boyfriend, then i painted the piece once the design was complete.
The main flowers colour is done with monochromatic red. Monochromatic just means that you begin with red and the shade of the red changes over and over again. the centre of the flower is a dark purple and the stem of the flower is dark green.
First of all, i used acrylic paints on the canvas, and i didn`t lay down a medium on the canvas before i started. to put the paint on i used a normal brush, whilst the paint is still wet i scumbled a lighter shade next to it so it blended together. Scumbling is a simple process, but it`s the choice of brush that will effect the outcome of the application.
scumbling brushes are mostly rather stiff, they handle of the brush will be like any other; but it`s the brush itself. The brush should be hard and quite thick, it should be uneven and quite brittle to touch; there should also be not to many on the brush... It`s hard to explain what the brush looks like, but if you have a few brushes in your set that aren`t as smooth and even as they other brushes; if you`ve bought a complete set then the scumbling brushes should of come as a different colour to the other ones in the set.
scumbling has to be one of my favourite techniques when it comes to painting i like the fact that it isn`t as straight forward as you would think and that the scumbling technique does need experimenting with before it`s use. It can be quite messy aswell, seeing as brushes for scumbling an become un-neat and un-tidy when used often. Another problem is that only a thin layer of paint can be applied as a thick layer causes the brush to stick together and not separate; the separation of the brush is what causes a scumbling effect and it`s the most important thing with this technique.
The good thing about using the scumbling technique is that you can add a range of tones to different materials on a canvas. This is the first small canvas that i did with added materials. On the dark brown areas i placed sand and small stones; before hand i added a base coat of paint and then i stuck the items down with PVA glue and paint on top of them. The skull in the top right corner is paint and PVA glue mixed together to make a thick paste. The purple flowers have an added texture of dried leaves that are mainly in the darkest areas of the painting.
This canvas was actually designed by my boyfriend, then i painted the piece once the design was complete.
The main flowers colour is done with monochromatic red. Monochromatic just means that you begin with red and the shade of the red changes over and over again. the centre of the flower is a dark purple and the stem of the flower is dark green.
First of all, i used acrylic paints on the canvas, and i didn`t lay down a medium on the canvas before i started. to put the paint on i used a normal brush, whilst the paint is still wet i scumbled a lighter shade next to it so it blended together. Scumbling is a simple process, but it`s the choice of brush that will effect the outcome of the application.
scumbling brushes are mostly rather stiff, they handle of the brush will be like any other; but it`s the brush itself. The brush should be hard and quite thick, it should be uneven and quite brittle to touch; there should also be not to many on the brush... It`s hard to explain what the brush looks like, but if you have a few brushes in your set that aren`t as smooth and even as they other brushes; if you`ve bought a complete set then the scumbling brushes should of come as a different colour to the other ones in the set.
scumbling has to be one of my favourite techniques when it comes to painting i like the fact that it isn`t as straight forward as you would think and that the scumbling technique does need experimenting with before it`s use. It can be quite messy aswell, seeing as brushes for scumbling an become un-neat and un-tidy when used often. Another problem is that only a thin layer of paint can be applied as a thick layer causes the brush to stick together and not separate; the separation of the brush is what causes a scumbling effect and it`s the most important thing with this technique.
The good thing about using the scumbling technique is that you can add a range of tones to different materials on a canvas. This is the first small canvas that i did with added materials. On the dark brown areas i placed sand and small stones; before hand i added a base coat of paint and then i stuck the items down with PVA glue and paint on top of them. The skull in the top right corner is paint and PVA glue mixed together to make a thick paste. The purple flowers have an added texture of dried leaves that are mainly in the darkest areas of the painting.
Painting is something i defiantly need to be working on throughout my sixth form projects and hopefully i will get better at it and develop my own techniques when painting. The scumbling technique can be hard to do though a it`s just like scratching the paint onto the canvas` surface.
In the future, i think i`ll experiment with a wider range of colours and more materials that can be placed onto a canvas and then worked on top of.
I do enjoy painting, but it takes time and patience to complete just a small canvas. It takes time and dedication to complete a fully painted canvas... That`s what i love about them!
~Thanks For Reading!
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