DAY 19

PAINT

 Today was really eye opening I haven’t done much painting at all in the past. And it really helps that Simon is clearly so interested and enthusiastic in his medium. We started with a slide show of different painting styles and technique which really helped in broadening the spectrum of what paint could create. Also the technique we used at the start possibly gave me the best start selecting the 10 most important lines then adding another but in a different colour and basically doing what I don’t want to do just letting it happen really ended up working. And making the first one I knew what I didn’t want to happen in the second painting. I was especially pleased with the second picture and using the stencil technique and rubbing the  purple down like in my gestalt to create that grunge look with highlights of the complement yellow really jumped out of the page. And I should do more things like it I could easily see it becoming a website or poster background some of the feed back from the relaxed crit as well was really positive “epic” and “stylish”. The second part of the day was reflection on the paintings something I really enjoyed and I found my self putting points across and speaking when I haven’t before (gaining confidence) maybe because we where in a smaller group. And still amazed how every workshop we’ve done everyone’s turns out differently.