As a group, the year 2's (that includes me!) have been commissioned to create a piece of artwork for the deputy head of college's office. We decided to do a painting in the style of Jackson Pollock as this would mean we could all get involved and it would be fun rather than tedious. Also, one important thing to consider: the walls of his office are green!
We've been working in a Jackson Pollock style for a while now so we have a good knowledge of colours and techniques that work together, however we'd only been working on a small scale. We now had to create a piece of work on a 40" x 50"canvas.
Below are a few experiments that we created first while planning our final colour scheme. These were done on paper approx the size of the canvas.
Above is the first experiment we did, which used shades of blue, purple and green mostly. Along with those colours we used black and white and a more 'streaky' technique on top. We started this one by all having a pot of different colour paint and then we walked around the paper flicking the paint. It worked well and was very fun, however it meant that most of the paint was in the middle, rather than spread out to the edges. The colours were nice but we decided they were a bit too dull for the green walls of the office and needed to be brighter! So we tried again...
Here is the second attempt, which looks like an explosion in an Easter factory. We went totally the opposite this time and used lots of bright colours - too many! We kept the black and white on the top and layered this piece a bit more, going over with colours we'd already used. But unfortunately this was too bright and we didn't like it.
I think the third attempt was the best, but not everyone agreed. We liked a mix of the second and third ones, colours from the second with the layered effect of the third. We used most of the colours we had in this one, and kept building and building it up, until we were happy. But because we wanted to mix 1 & 2, we tried again...!
This one is awful because we were rushing to get what we wanted. We had decided roughly on these colours but there weren't enough layers.
Final one!
Here are some other photos of the process:
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