Painting

Laura made a large sculpture from boxes,string and white sheets. We painted it with a limited palette of oil paints on to unprimed canvas. The sculpture was illuminated with spot lights to accentuate light and dark shades on the white sheets.We used burnt umber,cobalt blue hue and white to mix shades of grey.By mixing colours they are more translucent than just using black from the tube and it is more interesting having shades of blue and brown coming through the painting.The canvas is unprimed and the paint tended to sink in so there had to be a build up of paint mixed with white sprite to achieve the marks required.The canvas is rough and created a texture which wasn't always wanted,so the physical act of painting wasn't easy. We needed to get the whole sculpture on the canvas and address the background in some way.Also we worked on the floor which created problems.The canvas was large so it was hard to judge the scale and proportions with my body position changing. To paint the top half I walked or sat on the canvas which changed my veiw of the whole painting every time i stood up and moved around.