As the first real critique of art 5, excluding my summer project, I wanted to make another piece that I could add to my overall body of work. For this piece, I knew I wanted an orange color scheme, possible with a bit of yellows and greens. I picked a smaller and more manageable canvas for this piece and got to work.
I began my piece by actually not creating an underpainting: someone else had already made a few marks of black paint on the canvas, so I kept the marks and incorporated them into my design. I began to do more transparent layering with orange and yellow for the first few layers, wanting to gradually build up the paint's opacity as I went on. I then added in some black and white marks to add contrast to the piece.
Then I went in with some newspaper to create texture and collage elements. The newspaper was a bit darker, so I wanted to be sure to add back in plenty of white as to not make the painting seem too dark overall.
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