Week 3- Painting!!!

Good discovery! 

Before I start with this week's tasks, I wanted to include this YouTube channel here for future reference. This is a great channel, it teaches you how to draw like other artists. This will be great for developing new techniques and learning from different styles. 

clicking on the image will take you to YouTube (like magic!) 

Work time...

Watercolour! 

For my first Watercolour artist, I decided to look at the work of Peter Blake. I like the simplicity of his portraits, they're not too detailed, some are drawn better than others, he only seems to put great detail in one eye, and then draw the other one in a more simplistic form...It's all part of the charm I'd say. 

Here's what I did: 

I found imitating his style rather difficult. Watercolours have always been a difficult one for me, I enjoy them and they can be relaxing, but when having to create work in the style of another artist, it was slightly challenging. I'm not overly happy with what I've produced so far, I feel like I could do better, but I also feel like I've made a decent start, and I can now continue to work from here in order to improve. I'll admit I've found this week rather difficult, and I've not really managed well with my time management... This is something I need to improve on ASAP!!! 

Acrylic

For my first acrylic artist, I chose Ivon Hitchens. Abstract work isn't always my favourite, however I thought I'd challenge myself and go waaay out of my comfort zone, and try some abstract stuff. As always, here's a Pinterest board with a series of images I too inspiration from in trying to imitate the style as best as I could 

(This video has some pretty dramatic music...)

hpI found it pretty difficult imitating Hitchens' style, I had to stop myself from going into too much detail with the paint as that's what I'm used to doing. I think I've made a good start, however I do think the images produced could be more abstract, I'm closer to this in the second image as opposed to the first one. I'm starting to get the feel for his style though, I just need to be more confident with the paint and. 'go for it' and not be afraid to make mistakes.