Fauvist Landscapes of Giggleswick

Fauvist Landscapes of Giggleswick 

During this period i was fascinated with the outdoors just as much as i was fascinated with this style of painting, inspired by the fauves, Claude Monet's Venice twilight was a piece i was truly fascinated by. How the colours set the mood of the painting and therefore the response of the viewership. I realised that colours have a psychological power if used correctly, it can alter a persons mood, change ones emotion or even implant one. 

i even used oil paint to try reproducing the Venice twilight by Monet. 

I went outside and did some life drawings

Experimented with colours and brush makings 

Above pieces were simply paintings on test strips of canvas 

Below are the larger pieces that i took my time on

I worked hard and focused a lot on the brush making, i wanted the details to stand out from a distance, especially in the skies. I wanted the viewers eyesight to move with the markings on the canvas, markings that guide them throughout the entire painting through the uses of colour and directional mark makings of a brush. 

The skies were not as brilliantly executed in the painting above 

This piece i finished my series on. 

The skies are so powerful, i emphasised the blue, like a giant mass of weathering clouds crashing into the landscape, but what it also does is leads the viewers line of sight throughout the whole painting, it guides you from top to bottom. 

These Landscape paintings was one of my most enjoyable series, i look forward to getting back into it in the future. 

Barn door Painting in Plaster and Acrylic paint

Barn Door Painting 

During one weekend, i went to a friends house. His family owned a farm and hundreds of acres of land. I love the countryside, growing up in boarding school in North Yorkshire i grew to love the countryside. 

When i went to his house, i spent hours admiring the outdoors which lead to this piece. 

Yes i love the countryside but what i found fascinating on my long walks was discovering old buildings, the texture of them, the damages they had endured through weather, the interior...etc

I started documenting what i saw and photographed all that interests me. 

The moss growing on the buildings, the wear and tear the building and its materials have suffered through, the building body texture, the colour, the smell, the silent. 

I wanted to paint a still life of a barn door i came across. 

covering ¾ of the space, darkness inside gave contrast to the mould and mud on the once white painted door outside. the bricks growing with fungus on its surrounds. it was beautiful. 

I experimented with plaster, i wanted a 3 dimensional appeal that would really pop out th canvas. More than just a painting. 

I wanted the texture on the barn door so i experimented with the use of different kinds of cardboard. 

Finally after all the experimenting i knew how to proceed so i did and the outcome was amazing. 

This was the canvas i painted on but what i did was stuck ripped pieces of cardboard only on the areas i saw fit. it would create that extra depth and texture to make the overall more 3D. 

I used plaster and put it on top moulding it into brick like shapes. 

Acrylic after that. 

The annotations below are my analysis to the finished piece of painting after. to see what went well and what did not. 

In the end, i think the qualities of the cardboard and the plaster really gave this piece that compelling aesthetics that created a vas contrast between the elements of the painting. the darkness roughly in the middle brightens everything up. 

When you see this piece up close the texture looks so real that it drags you in to touch it.