Over my easter break I was given the opportunity to work with my cousin (a fellow artist) on a wedding present for my Aunt. I never realized it at the time, but the piece we created together quite nicely ties in with a few of my FMP workshops.
We agreed to a few guidelines dictated by my father (also an artist) being that the only paint allowed to be applied were to be black and white. In order to offer a greater appreciation for contrast and to simplify our mark making. So to add colour Joel and I spent time glueing deluxe colour swatches onto 5 sheets of paper. We used quite a rigid system of 7 columns by 4 rows. We then split the sheets into compatible groups ending up with 3 sheets making a triptych and two to make a diptych. So the piece at this point was composed of 3 sheets of paper, containing 28 rectangular strips of colour geometrically positioned.
Only white and black paint where used, but we scratched quite abit into the oil paint to bring out the colours given by the deluxe swatches. This process of continued till we had developed the main composition.
Of course this was intended to be a wedding present some gayety had to be applied to the painting. This came in the form of gold leaf we ever so delicately applied to the main theme of the composition.
We then spent some time touching up the paining by scratching some more and adding and taking away both white and black paint to improve contrast and composition. I tried to take some photo's of the end result, but i'm sorry to say my photography skills are incredibly lacking and the pictures below really don't do the painting any justice.
I had a lot of fun working on this piece, and at the time had no intention of including any ot=f this on my blog, but as i said, i've belatledy realized that this one piece actually contains quite a few of the themes, demonstrated to us in our FMP workshops. It also proves that my easter break wasn't all Vodka and bungie jumping.
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