Last Saturday's session at Tate Modern progressed from previous learnings on tone and launched further into the great world of colour. The format remained the same: traditional techniques followed by the experiential.
Mastering colour in life drawing can take a lifetime, so the objective of the experiential exercises wasn't to create photographic renditions, but rather capture a moment and feeling in colour.
Armed with a basic choice of acrylic colours and a couple of paintbrushes, we were given 45 minutes to capture the life scene in front of us. Once this image was completed and the paint had dried, we were instructed to cut up our painting and create a new artwork by bringing together the various cut pieces. We could choose to add further texture by working over the pieces with crayon, pencil, pens or more paint, or even by collaging other papers into the piece.
I was interested in the idea of starting with a standard way of describing and transforming it into something completely different, dynamic and abstract. So, by cutting and rearranging the pieces of my first painting, I managed to create an original image from pretty unoriginal beginnings!
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