Week Six

After my yellow wallpaper works over summer I decided to finally get to work on my Norman Gilbert Inspired studies -

I started blocking the painting onto one of my homemade canvases made with a wooden board instead of stretched canvas. I thought I would prefer the lack of texture but the wood was far too absorbent :( If I try board again I’ll be sure to add a proper lacquer or finish before the gesso primer

Underpainting and colour blocking

Starting to add tones to faces but something wasn’t sitting right, not only were the forms wrong too but the tinting/shading of a colour wasn’t working

2nd attempt at rendering the faces using Andrew Cadima’s method of saturation to render tones (see below)

Started sketching out and rendering patterns

Using a variety of methods to render patterns using separate paint palettes for each colour

Addition of patterns and details pt.2

As I was developing the painting I noticed really quickly that my colours started to look muddy and I chose to look at Andrew Cadima’s work as I followed his instagram for some time and know that he can create beautifully clean single colour paintings. I realised that his brightest tone was often the most saturated and decreased in luminosity for the shadows (but as for yellows adding red for warmth prevented the colour becoming muddy)

Gilbert, N. And Sandeman, M. (2022) [exhibition] A Shared Passion [exhibition] Newport-on-Tay: Tatha Galleries. October 01, 2022 - November 12, 2022

Cadima, A. (2022) Andrew Cadima. Available at: https://andrewcadima.com/ (Accessed: 4 December 2022).