Exploring with Mark Making

This week my tutorial was focused on what visual research we had gathered from the second week, as the week before I focused on the shapes and the different scales of building's around Manchester. I decided I would do this on a big scale again as I wanted to use different objects to paint with and to do it from a distance so I experimented with a tooth brush, a sponge and a comb all sellotaped to the end of a brush. This worked out well for me as I feel not being fully in control of the object I'm painting with makes interesting marks on paper that wouldn't be made if I had used a paintbrush normally.  

Having done a few fairly quick paintings which were successful I decided to do a more detailed one with a textured surface. I knew from some experiments I did last year that toilet roll made paintings appear softer as the paint spread and made a rough and hard texture when it dried so I decided to do this on a big scale and see how the same type of painting came out when I used different processes. 

             

The image I worked from is the image on the left, however I did zoom in slightly and made the colours I used warmer than the original picture.

  After my work was looked at we have decided that continuing with looking at views of buildings as a collective image is a good way to go forward. This is definitely something I am looking forward to exploring and seeing what results I will benefit from by doing this. But we have also discussed that the original colour scheme for this photograph was better and I need to start thinking about my colours in advance before starting anything new and not just do it in random ones.