I went around in the studio looking for people to draw that have emotions of how I want to feel at the time. I apporached my course mate Yvonne and I asked her how she was feeling and she said she felt calm and relaxed. I have always felt that taking a picture of a particular moment is the right way of capturing that emotion rather than drawing from life. I done a quick sketch from the photo using colours that I felt compliment well with the emotion that Yvonne felt. Instead of focusing just on the colour aspect I wanted to see if an emotion can come across with the tools that I use. After the lastest crit with my tutors and peers my tutor mentioned to me it’s almost like you’re painting your self portrait.
What was said is completely right, I usually paint just when I’m in the mood. Now I am painting whenever, even when I’m not in the mood, and it seems to have helped more. Another experiment i done was on my friend Beth, i was going to do the same thing with her, she then came up with an idea of letting her choose the colours that represent her or just out of chance and create something from that. She chose a range of reds, purples and yellows and I then created a portrait from that. With the final result I was happy with it, I felt I could of been more expressive with the colours I had rather than thinking yellow could be be skin tone, more like Yvonne’s.
From my previous posts the drawing I done of Laurel, I felt that pencil was not the right medium to bring her emotion out, so I started experimenting with watercolour pencils. My original idea was to use a variety of skin tone colours and blur the image slightly when water is applied over it to create a really atmospheric sketch. At the stage it is now I felt that the all the layers of colour I added are do much, because when the water is mixed in it will be very vibrant and with all the colour I added I thought the colours would appear muddy. If I was to do it again I would work on a bigger scale and would be more simpler with my palette.
From my previous posts I have talked about the posibility of using sound in my work, this is still an option I am considering. As I spend of my time in the studio lately I never find the time to create music at home. So I am now thinking that I should bring a keyboard to the studio.
