Painting from an Upside-down/sideways image.
The challenge for this week's session was:
To try painting a scene from a photograph with the image either upside down or turned upon its side.
As an artist, you are always trying to challenge or reassess the way you see things. Painting with the image upside down or sideways on is a very simple way of breaking conventions and making your work standout.
What we did: Selected a reference photograph. Spent at least 90% of the time with the photo either upside down or sidewards on.
Why? Our instructions were that:
Logic makes you want to twist your head to see things properly but keep level headed and focus instead on the various shapes, colours and tones. Creatively you’ll start exploring more abstract qualities of the image and develop a habit of re-evaluating the normal, traditional view. If you’re working in watercolour and painting a landscape or street scene, you may produce washes that merge into the sky but going against convention will make for a more unique artwork. As you come to the latter stages of the painting, turn the image upright to add any finishing touches that may be required.
To try painting a scene from a photograph with the image either upside down or turned upon its side.
As an artist, you are always trying to challenge or reassess the way you see things. Painting with the image upside down or sideways on is a very simple way of breaking conventions and making your work standout.
What we did: Selected a reference photograph. Spent at least 90% of the time with the photo either upside down or sidewards on.
Why? Our instructions were that:
Logic makes you want to twist your head to see things properly but keep level headed and focus instead on the various shapes, colours and tones. Creatively you’ll start exploring more abstract qualities of the image and develop a habit of re-evaluating the normal, traditional view. If you’re working in watercolour and painting a landscape or street scene, you may produce washes that merge into the sky but going against convention will make for a more unique artwork. As you come to the latter stages of the painting, turn the image upright to add any finishing touches that may be required.
