Cloud Studies Take Two

Having reread tutor feedback from my last assignment, I have tried to produce some cloud studies that offers greater sense of structure to the clouds and painted in a way that hopefully makes better use of stronger and more varied colour mixes.

I feel the results are better than before, and am glad that I came back to this exercise:

Assignment 5 - Series of five paintings

"Blue Buda" series:

Working on the 5th painting in the series, was going to do a more  traditional making the Buda ornament the focal object, but decided by getting me daughter to hold the ornament I can also turn exercise in to a portrait study.

Work in progress..

Finished Painting

"A day in Hastings" series:

The next selection of paintings my family felt worked the best a series and best reflected the subject matter although they felt pictures  3 & 5 didn't sit quite as well in the series. They liked the combination of watercolour and ink, and commented that the sketchy quality of the figures gave a sense of movement to the scenes

Painting 1.

Painting 2.

Painting 3.

Painting  4.

Painting 5.

In following series of paintings based on those already produced I try to create a more refined, less sketchy version of the paintings or elements from these paintings. In some cases I am going back to the photographs I had taken earlier in the month, with more of a sense of purpose as to what I wanted to achieve...a tighter study of the of figures, but with minimal suggestion of anything else from the townscape.

    

Exercise Working with music

Music inspired watercolours, abstract doodles rather than anything more ambitious, I like what I am listening to but don't feel any strong emotion or different emotion based on what I listened to for this exercise. I tried to avoid painting pictures of the instruments I could hear or moving my paint brush across the paper like I am conducting but in some cases couldn't help but be influenced by the song title.

Caribou, Sun

Daft Punk, Verdis Quo

Jon Hopkins, Lost in Thought

Miles Davis, All blue

My daughter who gave me a list of music, after painting the pictures tried to guess which painting went with which song... All blue was the the on she got followed by Sun once she could see that the the tiles had played a part in what I had painted.

Lost in Thought, I feel, is the most successful if its possible, to measure the outcome... marks in this painting more than the others influenced by the music rather than producing something that I am trying to make work as a picture.

My daughter, unlike me, can play several instruments and has a much deeper appreciation of music (beyond my "oh, this is a nice tune") ... It would to be good to try and paint here interpretation of the songs... she could write down how she feels and I could try and paint a response...