Extreme Composition Lesson 4 Variety Variety Variety

Lesson 4 is all about variety. The first exercise was to make as many marks on a paper with no background, using crayons, ink, paint, cutouts etc. Now I  have to go back and doodle more on some of the marks.
There were questions to ask oneself.

• How difficult was it not to repeat elements?
I found it quite difficult, I have to increase my library of mark making.

 • Do any of your collections look like interesting compositions in themselves? Or do they all look disjointed?
Very disjointed

• Are they fun to look at?
Yes in a way

• Did you discover any new ways of making marks?
Yes

• Did you use processes or materials that felt uncomfortable to you? 
No, not really. Tried pen and ink which was new for me.

• How difficult was it not to paint a background or connect the elements with some unifying principle?
Slightly uncomfortable.

Next part is to make three distinct marks and connect them in various ways!
I made 3 pages of marks!!! Click to enlarge!

 Bye for now!

Last of Mish Mash

Finished I don't know. This piece has history. Started back July 2015 and then in again end of November till I took it out of the closet and decided that it need revision/transformation. Looking at it on my easel as I write this blog I still feel uneasy especially about the middle area. Think I'll let rest for a while or chuck into the wood stove. This is the last of the 3 revised paintings.

37 x 28 cm\

Oils & Cold Wax

Cardboard

 Here are some of the stages.

From November 2015

Going bold

Calming down

Have been doing some exercise from the course I am taking from Jane Davies. Started before the January Challenge. This is a work at your own pace course. Hope to post tomorrow.

See ya!!

Dancing Line Part Two

OK put on paint and spread it around. A sort of greenish gray. Added oranges, yellows and blue. Rubbed and blotted, scrubbed a bit too! Spread it on with my silicon knife and palette knife. Decided I needed white. Spread it on, rubbed some off. Really not knowing where I was going or what I was doing. Tried some stamping, rubbed it off. Decided to leave it for the night or else I think I would have chucked the whole thing.. no not really!!!

Dancing Line  II WIP

35.5 x 42 cm

Black and White

I sometimes check out how the tones look in B&W. May need some contrast!!! 

See ya tomorrow!