Month: May 2025

Amy Kennedy. Living that Artist Life. 2025. Acrylic Paint on Canvas. This painting an expressionism still life painting of myself. Because I did this assessment last minute, I have spent the last 5 days 8am to 1am the next morning getting everything I have to do done. Because I am constantly crouching while I make…

With skills I’ve learnt from previous modules, I extended my skills with angles and distances on a human figure. Exercise 1 helped me to observe the model’s shape and proportions to get used to drawing the nude figure with my non-dominant hand and dominant hand. When drawing negative space in exercise 2, I can further…

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This module has some more exercises with abstract concepts. Compositional experiment 2 is creating the portrait with abstract lines. This focuses more on expression and less on details, choosing block colours. Compositional experiment 2 is similar, however contour is differentiated with dark to light tones of the face with sections…

Painting content 3 looks at different mark-making techniques that can create emotional, psychological or conceptual aspects. It makes you think about layering, colour and composition as you execute portraits. Painting skin tones taught me when to use cool tones and warm tones while only adding a little bit of white and black to create light…

Content 2 was a wide range of still life techniques, extending my art technique in abstract ways. Ex 1, we were building up one colour and black from lightest and darkest, looking at different tones. Exercise 2 painting 1 was to abstract reality by drawing what you see, not your take on it, by never…

This helped me get familiar with colour theory. I learnt the difference between cool tones and warm tones to create paintings, whether they are factual, actual or personal. By mixing different primary colours in the colour wheel, I created secondary colours, then tertiary colours, showing me the relationship between colours and how to create them….

In this lesson, we learnt masking techniques to make abstract work. Exercise 1 (third picture) was learning to block areas of work for a more geometric abstraction or illustrative approach. Exercise 2 (second picture) is something similar, however, you first paint the main figures, then the middle ground imagery, and lastly the background, rather than…

In this lesson, we had a lightbox to trace a portrait 4 times, inverting the page 3 times to create an abstract effect with no pictorial perspective. What I liked most about this technique is that it was soothing to colour in the spaces, like a paint-by-numbers. I also like how trippy it looked and…

Amy Kennedy. 2025. Jasmine. Acrylic Paint on Canvas. This portrait is of my best friend jasmine. In Painting 3 and 4 class we were learning portraits and experimenting with colours and how to create skin tones. In painting content 3 I learnt how to differentiate cool and warm skin tones with the primary colours red,…