CyberArts Assignment: Big and Little Paintings

Greetings readers,

Not to long ago in CyberArts, a very interesting project was afoot. The project started with four giant pastels, then they turned into tiny croppings; these croppings became large pastels of the croppings. These large pastels then became large paintings, then the large paintings became small paintings. Below are photos of the large painting and small painting that I did:



Here is the large painting; as you can see, the goal was to be loose and crazy. Not much attention to detail here, but I feel that it turned out pretty good. It was interesting to not worry if you didn't paint it exactly to scale and to use large, flowing brushstrokes. A problem I had to overcome during this was covering up a spot of grey paint that somehow got onto the orange section. Four or five layers had to be applied before it was covered up. Another major problem was the tape border; it kept peeling off the board and brown paint managed to worm its way under it to ruin the border. Other than that, the large painting is probably my favourite because it was so much fun to paint. I would say the best section of that painting is the pink section at the bottom; the way the pink and white are layered on top provide good contrast. The area I would do over again if I could would be the brown section because it seems to lightly painted on compared with the rest of the painting.



This is the smaller painting; the goal here was to incorporate more details and to concentrate on getting smaller and more accurate brushstrokes. The smaller painting required more concentration because if a darker colour accidentally got into an area of the canvas with a lighter colour, multiple layers had to be applied in order to cover up any mistakes. Again, more gray spots appeared on this one and I had to apply more layers. A difficult part of this painting was adding light and dark to it. The original cropping was all one dull tone. I again enjoyed painting the pink section at the bottom because I could vary my brushstrokes more with pink and white. It doesn't look as good as the larger version in my opinion but I feel I did a pretty good job. The hardest part was painting the green. On paper, the green paint went on smoothly; on canvas, it went bumpy and jagged. The brush didn't flow as much on canvas and the result was jittery lines in areas.