I decided to process some new images and create a new paintings.
These studies were done with water colour, I explored the tones and the shapes from the photographs.
I had the idea to combine all three photographs into one painting. I began with the surface, in each picture, there is a grey undertone. Using a palette knife, I scraped a warm-tone, grey paint onto my surface. I wanted this technique to help create texture for the layers to come.
I wanted to explore a new way of adding texture to my painting, and this was by combining sand and paint together. I felt that the third image would help aid to create the idea of the bush seen in the photograph. I really like this idea, I hadn’t used it in any previous paintings and I feel like it is a creative way to create texture but without using a specific brush marks to do it.
Here I began to add layers to the paintings, combining all three together, this was difficult because each photo was a different composition and perspective. I explored with layers between each photo, using the mountains as a guide, and adding in small detail every now and then.
The final result.