Material Differences

For this exercise I carried on my progress with exercise 2, looking at the stairs but being influenced by Paul Heaston, I wanted to create quite an open view over looking as much of the stairs as possible. I didn’t want as distorted a view as he does, but an open area. Looking at what I ended up producing I think I could have went with a more open view, maybe higher up, but I do like how it is somewhat from a viewpoint that makes the viewer feel a part of the drawing, walking down the stairs.

As I talked about in exercises prior, I was struggling with blending out my oil pastels, so I tried rubber brushes to help blend and add texture to my medium. I think this technique worked well for the carpet as I swirled it around in order to portray the fuzzy texture of the carpet.
I kept my use of colour as close to the real colours as I could, I think the bannister colours came out really well. After posting this piece online, a lot of the positive feedback was on the bannister and how effective my choice of colours were. I am overall very happy with how this piece came out, I feel I could drastically improve on my use of colour on the plant. It looks too bright and un natural, but as much as I played around with the colours it was hard to tone down the brightness of the green I had already used. Moving forward to avoid this problem I think that I could have a separate sheet of paper on hand to test out my colours before applying them, especially if I am not able to remove or alter them once they have been used.

I am really happy with how this came out and how prepared I was with all the work from the previous exercises. Moving forward I would like to plan out my pieces and really think about my composition and what I would like to portray and although my use of colour in drawings has come a long way, I think I still need to experiment and play around with it some more to really be confident and effective at using it. I think looking into my upcoming assignment, I would like to stick to something similar in terms of my medium, as I would like to practice and get a stronger feel for it, and become confident.