Small Canvas Painting – Tomato
1. Describe the colour scheme you have chosen in your canvas painting. Discuss why you chose these colours in detail.
For my small canvas painting, I chose the colour scheme to be complementary colours. The two colours I chose were green and a reddish pink. My painting is of a tomato, and I thought that I should use complementary colours because a regular tomato is only red. A colourful tomato would look much more effective and brighten it up.
2. Describe how you created the work from start to finish, including painting techniques.
When painting my first layer, I made a rather light coloured pink which I then painted over with a darker reddish pink. Using my thickest brush, I started from the middle and brushed outwards to the edge. I then drew on the outline and different shapes of the tomato over the top of the first layer with a pencil. I then mixed up a darker shaded green, for the skin, and thicker layer on the outside of the tomato, and firstly painted this with a brush, then, using my finger, smoothened it up like in the photo. The next lesson I mixed up a lighter coloured green and, using my thinnest brush, went through all the wiggly lines. I found it difficult to get a lot of paint onto the brush, so the next lesson, I went over this, which gave it a darker, more solid coloured effect. When I began dotting with the bottle, I used white dots in the flesh, and am planning on using black dots on the skin layer. I have been using smaller dots, but spaced them apart more in
3. Describe what you like about your work and any difficulties you faced.
I like the small seeds within the painting, which are just a slightly darker tone, but have a good effect, as well as the smoothness of the thicker, skin layer from using my finger to paint this. One difficulty I faced was that when I painted the insides of the tomato with the smaller paint brush, it did not produce a solid enough colour, so I had to go over it again the next week after it had dried which took up some time. Another difficulty I faced was beginning later than everyone else because I had missed many lessons. I have only just begun dotting, and have placed my arm on the work a few times, making it a little bit messy.
4. Describe the tone, textures and line you have created in your work.
Tone: For my canvas painting, I used different tones of green for the different parts of the tomato. For the skin, I used a darker tone, although, I put in some white in one section of the skin to make it look like there was a light reflection on it. For the flesh of the tomato, I used a lighter tone, and for the liquid parts, I left them as the dark pink colour so that the complementary colours were more obvious.
Textures: I painted the skin of the tomato with my finger, so that it looked really smooth, and I did the flesh of the tomato by splotching the paintbrush in-between the lines so that it had a rougher looking texture.
Line: When I drew on the shape of the fruit, I did it very roughly because I didn’t want it to have a perfect and even look. When I made the base colour of the canvas, I started my brush stroke from the centre, and went out, so that it was possible to look in towards the centre of the painting.
5. Research the lino block printing process. What is printmaking?
Lino printmaking is the process of using an image, mirroring the image onto a piece of lino, in which you then carve out the shape, and the risen parts are what are painted on with ink using a roller. It is then printed onto paper for fabric.
6. What is a lino block?
When cork dust or wood dust, flax, chalk and linseed oil are mixed together, they create lino block which is used for a method of printing in which an image is carved into a block of linoleum.
7. a) Find two examples of artists’ works of interest that create prints from lino block.
b) Underneath each work discuss what the subject is of their work, the lines and textures
created in the work.
The artist Sybil Andrews created these two prints from lino block. The first picture is named ‘The Gale’ and the second is named ‘Windmill.’
1.
This piece of work is named ‘The Gale’ by Sybil Andrews.
The subject of this work is that there is a big gale of wind that comes along with lots of rain, and there are two people with umbrellas walking outside. The dotted lines represent rain, and this is proved from the people with the umbrellas. The ways that the white shapes are pointed indicate wind whirling around. Lastly, the textures of the blue which is slightly faded and not a solid colour mostly indicates that the rain is there splashing everywhere.
2.
This piece of work is named ‘Windmill’ by Sybil Andrews.
The subject of this print is about a windmill powering away, collecting energy. The ways the shapes and lines have been used demonstrate that the windmill is spinning fast and vigorously. The textures in the print displays that the windmill is casting a shadow.
1. Describe the colour scheme you have chosen in your canvas painting. Discuss why you chose these colours in detail.
For my small canvas painting, I chose the colour scheme to be complementary colours. The two colours I chose were green and a reddish pink. My painting is of a tomato, and I thought that I should use complementary colours because a regular tomato is only red. A colourful tomato would look much more effective and brighten it up.
2. Describe how you created the work from start to finish, including painting techniques.
When painting my first layer, I made a rather light coloured pink which I then painted over with a darker reddish pink. Using my thickest brush, I started from the middle and brushed outwards to the edge. I then drew on the outline and different shapes of the tomato over the top of the first layer with a pencil. I then mixed up a darker shaded green, for the skin, and thicker layer on the outside of the tomato, and firstly painted this with a brush, then, using my finger, smoothened it up like in the photo. The next lesson I mixed up a lighter coloured green and, using my thinnest brush, went through all the wiggly lines. I found it difficult to get a lot of paint onto the brush, so the next lesson, I went over this, which gave it a darker, more solid coloured effect. When I began dotting with the bottle, I used white dots in the flesh, and am planning on using black dots on the skin layer. I have been using smaller dots, but spaced them apart more in
3. Describe what you like about your work and any difficulties you faced.
I like the small seeds within the painting, which are just a slightly darker tone, but have a good effect, as well as the smoothness of the thicker, skin layer from using my finger to paint this. One difficulty I faced was that when I painted the insides of the tomato with the smaller paint brush, it did not produce a solid enough colour, so I had to go over it again the next week after it had dried which took up some time. Another difficulty I faced was beginning later than everyone else because I had missed many lessons. I have only just begun dotting, and have placed my arm on the work a few times, making it a little bit messy.
4. Describe the tone, textures and line you have created in your work.
Tone: For my canvas painting, I used different tones of green for the different parts of the tomato. For the skin, I used a darker tone, although, I put in some white in one section of the skin to make it look like there was a light reflection on it. For the flesh of the tomato, I used a lighter tone, and for the liquid parts, I left them as the dark pink colour so that the complementary colours were more obvious.
Textures: I painted the skin of the tomato with my finger, so that it looked really smooth, and I did the flesh of the tomato by splotching the paintbrush in-between the lines so that it had a rougher looking texture.
Line: When I drew on the shape of the fruit, I did it very roughly because I didn’t want it to have a perfect and even look. When I made the base colour of the canvas, I started my brush stroke from the centre, and went out, so that it was possible to look in towards the centre of the painting.
5. Research the lino block printing process. What is printmaking?
Lino printmaking is the process of using an image, mirroring the image onto a piece of lino, in which you then carve out the shape, and the risen parts are what are painted on with ink using a roller. It is then printed onto paper for fabric.
6. What is a lino block?
When cork dust or wood dust, flax, chalk and linseed oil are mixed together, they create lino block which is used for a method of printing in which an image is carved into a block of linoleum.
7. a) Find two examples of artists’ works of interest that create prints from lino block.
b) Underneath each work discuss what the subject is of their work, the lines and textures
created in the work.
The artist Sybil Andrews created these two prints from lino block. The first picture is named ‘The Gale’ and the second is named ‘Windmill.’
1.
This piece of work is named ‘The Gale’ by Sybil Andrews.
The subject of this work is that there is a big gale of wind that comes along with lots of rain, and there are two people with umbrellas walking outside. The dotted lines represent rain, and this is proved from the people with the umbrellas. The ways that the white shapes are pointed indicate wind whirling around. Lastly, the textures of the blue which is slightly faded and not a solid colour mostly indicates that the rain is there splashing everywhere.
2.
This piece of work is named ‘Windmill’ by Sybil Andrews.
The subject of this print is about a windmill powering away, collecting energy. The ways the shapes and lines have been used demonstrate that the windmill is spinning fast and vigorously. The textures in the print displays that the windmill is casting a shadow.
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