A process of making a painting and the end of a course

Working from this image:

All these images were created

Here is the process. Follow the links to see the result.

1. Draw the image exactly as you can, upside down.

2. Pick parts of the image and do paintings using ink.

3. Choose one of your ink paintings and do a collage.

4. Do a painting from your collage or any other part of the image.

5: Build a modell of the image using cardboard paper.

6. Use one of the creations above and do a final painting.

Final painting

I chose the drawing of cardboard model to paint

I begun by adding background color

and slowly the painting progressed

This is what i have now, but the painting is not finished.

A modell of an image

From the same image i have been working on this week and last, I got the assignment to construct a model.

Here is the cardboard version of the image

Here is a drawing of the cardboard version of the image.

A colored painting of the black and white ink paintings

Life drawing

Practising fantasy drawing

View from my window

Done in ink.

Portraits

Collage

Drawing in ink

Drawing upside down

After drawing upside down for the whole day.

Life drawing

A mixture of 10 min, 5 min and 1 min drawings.

Todays work

Painting skin

This is the result of todays work.

I started by painting the background green, as was the assigment

Then we were supposed to use red colour to draw the contour of the model.

After that, I begun painting the skin using yellow ocre, raw umbra and red colour. The colours where specified in the assigment as well.

My challenge was to try a new way of painting. I used a broad and dry brush and applied colours

in big strokes.

I added blue to create interesting shadows

And the end result is...