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mixed media paintings

bethanyjackson95
Jan 14, 2017
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after having multiple tutorials with the tutors, discussions with my peers and arguments with myself i finally was able to put my two ideas together and create a stronger plan and project that i knew i would love doing and equally love the outcome for. instead of trying to tear myself apart and choose between the abstract expressionist paintings i had a penchant for painting and the new attraction to painting and drawing the more illustrative animals, birds and insects that i felt had a more delicate feel to, i decided to throw myself in head first and just concentrate on creating pieces of work that combined both subject areas and by doing so i was using all of the processes and techniques that i had practiced (watercolour animals like Hannah Dale and the painting processes of Jackson Pollock) and combining them in an new and explorative way that createds, in my eyes, beautiful paintings that reflected nature, animal life and the colour palette that i knew and loved to use. I was also using a wider range of colours instead of a range of complimentary set of pastel shades or cool or warm tones. this new spur of producing paintings gave me the push i needed and it also helped me get over my old style of sticking to smaller scale pieces and styart using 5x5ft canvases and 5ft rolls of paper.

i now feel like i have grown as an artist in ways that i have come out of my shell and produced paintings that i never knew i could do,as well as giving myself so many more ideas such as incorperating collage, or even photography elements in the future too.