Week 3
This week in my painting process update, for my free inquiry project, I have started the colour. The photo I have chosen to replicate with paint is a very greek looking brick/marble wall. I have realized this will be a lot of white. A LOT OF WHITE. As I started to paint over the brown base, I make purposeful brush strokes to highlight the indents and the depth and shadows in the image. I added some blues and yellows to create texture of shadows and the warmth in the highlights. I also applied thick stokes of clean white paint to create the traditional cobblestone like walkways of the Greek islands.
After a while, I started to get snow blindness with all of the white paint, not unlike how my eyes feel when I am using screens for 7 hours a day. It might be time to look away and give my baby blues a chance to rest. However, I am really enjoying this process, and it has become a great creative outlet to put my stress into. A way to decompress if you will. I am quite proud of myself for finding paint. I usually shy away from colour – I am a lover of white, grey and black. I guess you could say I have found a middle ground with a monochromatic paint scheme.
Tune in next week.
Swish & Flick ♥