The last few days we have been working on a personal project called 'The Column Project' and I'm not going to lie it was al lright, I got rather frustrated at times as things didn't really turn out how I wanted them, and as we had a day less then everyone else Michelle, Chris and I weren't able to finish our so I guess I just keep on comparing my unfinished work to the other rotation groups.
The Project is basically I good exercise to get used to the basics of scenic art, like how to scale up a drawing, what brushes and techniques to use to get the right effect, and some basic colour mixing.
This picture shows my first approach to the project, in which I used charcoal on long stick to draw up the column and I used long pieces of wood to get straight lines.
To get a sort of marble effect we used colour washes, which basically we wetted large paintbrushes brushed the background of our boards and then went over the wet wash with a watered down yellow ochre colour.
We continued to numerous colour washes, and on the coloumn we used a raw sienna and red colour. Additionally we also began to paint in some veins.
I found the veins pretty hard to do, and as you can see from this photo I totally screwed up, my veins are far to dark and far to fat, but I had to just leave them as I was lagging behind :(
Here is the stage I finished at, we achieved the dark shadow on the right side by using a spray gun filled with a burnt umber and black colour; and on the capital i had just began painting in the main shapes and tones but as you can I didn't get very far!
Looking at these photos I'm not very happy with my work - I've got the colour completely wrong (my background is far to dark and orangey) and I'm such a slow worker so I feel I have achieved very little!
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