FMP Painting Five
Final Major Project Painting Number 5 For my last painting in the FMP series, I decided to transcribe a dream based collage I'd made before (pictured below). The reason I chose this collage is because not only did it fit in well with my project proposal, but there were graphic elements I was excited to try and incorporate into my painting. My intention was to keep things abstract, but I wanted to mix elements of figuration with the abstraction. I tried something slightly different with this painting by applying gesso in roughened textures to various parts of the canvas. I still left most of the canvas raw. I wanted to see side by side the difference this would create in texture and transparency. I quickly sketched out the obvious shapes from the collage, without trying to keep things too perfect. I liked the way the canvas is coming through the blues, particularly in the top left hand corner so I initially wanted to try and keep this this segment undisturbed. ...
