Installation

 So on Thursday morning we had to create an installation using materials inspired by an image we had chosen. We had to focus on the contrast between textures, tones and materials in general. I began to work with materials such as black bin bags, brown paper, clothes hangers, black string and masking tape. 

When I started the installation it was a bit too much of a relief piece on the wall so I tried to give it more structure. There was also a lack of colour in the installation, so I ended up teaming up with someone and we added scrunched magazine pages and different pieces of fabric.
 

After doing some more blind painting looking at both positive and negative space, we began to work on thumbnails of sections of our installation. We started to focus on the composition on the page. 

I mixed three different tones of paint, a dark tone, a medium tone and a light tone and started by mapping out the painting (using paint, not a pencil!) according to the thumbnail I'd made. Then I started painting using a palette knife and working from the background, to the middle ground then lastly we were to build up the foreground focusing on applying each tone next to eachother. I really enjoyed using the palette knife as it was so different from using a brush and gave a nice thick build up of paint.