A disadvantage for me here was that I couldn't stay in the same place to do the painting as I would have nowhere to put my materials , so I had to move to another part of the room and rely to a great extent on the sketches, so I improvised by painting the scene from the sketch/es while looking at the scene from another angle.
The medium was acrylic and the colours used were mixes of raw sienna, raw umber, ultramarine, cadmium red, alizarin crimson, titanium white and mixing white.
As the instructions were to paint in the initial outlines and then use light colour washes, I was slightly nervous . What little watercolour painting techniques I've done before were many years ago. To try and compensate for this I made three larger sketches of chosen view on watercolour paper just in case I made a complete mess of things.
With the first painting I decided not to continue beyond the wall tiles and the slats on the window blinds whose angle of perspective looked too extreme and I felt I couldn't rectify it. I liked the pencil marks on the underlying sketch but I don't think these have worked out as well in paint - they're a bit clumsy looking, especially the container at the top, the pan and kettle.
I'm happier with the second painting in general, but I think I've lost the interesting mark making on the appliances in comparison to no.1.
The area around the wall, cupboard and window look more three dimensional and sloping away. The perspective seems convincing and I like the way I've left the outline of the worktop behing the appliances visible, which help to give them a look of transparency. I'm not sure about the table mats though - it's hard to make out what they are at all. The shadows are too heavy and clumsy looking - all in all, my first effort with these was more convincing.
The dark wall to the right of the wall cupboard appears to give a look of recession in relation to the light toned cupboard doors, though the wall does look streaky in the upper and lower areas. I added a touch of cadmium yellow and raw sienna mix to the doors and apppliance to help them advance in space. Because the warm tones were limited to one half of the composition, the result of this was to create an unbalanced look, although I think I managed to cure this discrepancy by also adding a little of the mix to other areas .
By attempting to add a suggestion of foliage outside the window I think I managed to make the the lower part of the area look rather confusing, or nondescript.
The easiest (and most spontaneous) part was the container on top of the cupboards and the door knob on the bottom right of the doors, each completed with one wash.
I wanted to work in a loose style but overall I think the way I've applied the paint is rather clumsy looking.
The medium was acrylic and the colours used were mixes of raw sienna, raw umber, ultramarine, cadmium red, alizarin crimson, titanium white and mixing white.
As the instructions were to paint in the initial outlines and then use light colour washes, I was slightly nervous . What little watercolour painting techniques I've done before were many years ago. To try and compensate for this I made three larger sketches of chosen view on watercolour paper just in case I made a complete mess of things.
I'm happier with the second painting in general, but I think I've lost the interesting mark making on the appliances in comparison to no.1.
The area around the wall, cupboard and window look more three dimensional and sloping away. The perspective seems convincing and I like the way I've left the outline of the worktop behing the appliances visible, which help to give them a look of transparency. I'm not sure about the table mats though - it's hard to make out what they are at all. The shadows are too heavy and clumsy looking - all in all, my first effort with these was more convincing.
The dark wall to the right of the wall cupboard appears to give a look of recession in relation to the light toned cupboard doors, though the wall does look streaky in the upper and lower areas. I added a touch of cadmium yellow and raw sienna mix to the doors and apppliance to help them advance in space. Because the warm tones were limited to one half of the composition, the result of this was to create an unbalanced look, although I think I managed to cure this discrepancy by also adding a little of the mix to other areas .
By attempting to add a suggestion of foliage outside the window I think I managed to make the the lower part of the area look rather confusing, or nondescript.
The easiest (and most spontaneous) part was the container on top of the cupboards and the door knob on the bottom right of the doors, each completed with one wash.
I wanted to work in a loose style but overall I think the way I've applied the paint is rather clumsy looking.
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