painting

I like the concept of the atmospheric perspective painting. Using gritty marks and a loose style seemed to be something that I usually enjoy so I thought this project would be kind of easy for me but when we had to pick pictures to use as reference I chose to do one with a reflection and very tall straight buildings because I thought that would make an interesting composition however having such a picture to work from on all three pieces, my paintings became very centered and even though that isn't a negative thing, it definetely made it more difficult to create visual interest within such a strict composition. Even using a very large piece of raw canvas didn't allow me much room to be loose with it because I was worried about making sure it looked believable within the universe of the painting. Only being allowed to use black and white was another challenge because I usually don't use just two colors and it was hard to try and decide what the darkest dark needed

The abstraction painting was actually a little difficult for me. Even though I enjoy abstract art, especially making it, it was hard to seperate the figure from the painting and work from that. I ended up using the palette knife and enhancing certain colors that were a little dialed back in the original that way the new piece that was created would have its own content and wouldn't rely on being an abstraction of a master copy. I ended up using a lot of oil paint in the first abstraction becasue I wanted it to have a lot of variety when it came to texture so in some areas I layered it on while in others I tried to spread it out and then go back into it and add more. It was easier once I made a lot of paint and just tried to not see the face that was painted and instead look at it like different areas of colors and then when I started the abstraction of an abstraction I decided it would be interesting to use a smaller, but still proportionate canvas to see if it would be easier or

The stretcher-less canvas project was one that I was excited to begin because to me the project removed content along with the ordinary expectations to a painting, that being the frame. Using watered down acrylic paint I worked quickly in order to cover the entire canvas and experiment with the colors I used. I decided to use red orange, blue, black, white, and a little bit of yellow to really try and see what I could come up with a very selective palette. After the entire canvas was covered I kept going back after it dried adding more layers of washes and color in order to create a piece with a lot of depth to it. After I was satisfied with the colors I chose I decided to add some shapes because I was curious as to how that would look with it being a stretcher less canvas. I was very satisfied with the side with black outlines and filled shapes so i chose to show more of that side in my variations. I also tried to create different compositions on the wall using the