Van Gogh days – Monday 3rd and Monday 10th February

10 February 2014 / Exhibitions . Workshops

For the last two week the acrylic painting students used all their learned skills to produce their first painting. We selected VanGogh’s “Chair with pipe” as our masterpiece piece to practise on, as we could use perspective drawing, colour mixing, negative painting, knife painting and glazing in this exersice.

We started to lay down a background of beige and terracotta mixes before watercolour pencil was used for sketching in the outlines of Van Gogh’s chair.

 At this stage we mixed a blue-green colour to use for the door in the background. This mixed paint was then lightend with lots of white acrylic paint to achive the lighter tone for the walls. We used out negative painting skill to carefully paint around the outlines of the chair.

The chairs colour was mixed starting with yellow and red and toning it down with blue before lighting it up with lots of white. Darker and lighter tones of yellow mixed and some dakblue for shadows were used to give the chair some shape. .The same paint mixture was used for the little box in the corner.

We had most fun creating the terracotta tiles with a mixture of darker and lighter shades of terracotta and liberaly knifing it on to our canvas. What looked like a big mess at the beginning become a pretty good tiling job after we redrew the grouting lines and calmed it all down with a unifying glaze of a lighter tone of terracotta. Adding Vincent’s name on to the little box in the corner finished our masterwork.

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