Paintings

Bird: the first one. I did it properly for this one.  I blocked in the colours and did the background first.

This was the first painting we did. My first version didn't block it out and the background wasn't done beforehand. However the second time when I did it I did learn a lot about when colours are next to eachother. 

Painting one: romantic.

When making this I had the standard image of warm reads and pinks being romantic, but I tried out some bit of blue to see what it would do. I had the image of bright baby blue as I thought it was sometimes associated with romance.

Painting two: Horrific.

I thought of some of the old romantic landscapes from Casper Freidrich like his Abbey in thr Oakwood and Two Men By The Sea. The use of Browns and dark, cold colours makes me feel uneasy and scared, whilst his other works are rather bright and magnificent these two seem to be more gothic than his other paintings.