For this study, I paid more attention to the arrangement of colors, the composition, and the texture on the surface, rather than only realistically representing the objects in front of me. I sort of let the direction of the materials in front of me (plastic, paper, wood, and clay) inspire and guide me for the directions in my application of the paint. I first painted the image straight-forward using brushes, and then used a pallet knife to bring out highlights and shadows, and add texture consistently throughout the study.
I feel like this is it, this is the one I'm going to base my final painting on. Parts of this study felt like painting a landscape, and it sort of turned out to look like an abstract landscape, based on the shapes and color scheme. The paper I painted in the foreground ended up looking like an ocean, just by default of the texture created with the pallet knife.
Ocean and Shore
My boyfriend said to me that it looks like a landscape of ocean, a desert, and white snowy mountains with a pair of giant hands laying crossed in the center, and that it was both conceptually and stylistically unlike anything I'd tried before.
Snow-capped Mountains
Hearing it from someone else proved it to me that this composition is not totally literal. I've finally found a way to break down the composition of what was at first more like a still life, and make something that is more open to interpretation. My goal is to end up with something that is both abstract and representational, depending on the interpretation of the audience. We'll see what happens!
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