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| the cosmos is discos lust, 2015 Acrylic on French linen, 180 × 480 cm (overall) |
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| wild carrot dream, 2015 Acrylic on French linen, 160 × 140 cm |
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| inside another land 1-15, 2015 Archival print on cotton rag with acrylic paint 58.5 x 83, with border 69 x 83 cm each |
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| come ride with me, 2015 Acrylic on French linen, 160 × 140 cm |
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| within my pleats, 2015 Acrylic on French linen, 160 × 140 cm |
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| the highway is a disco, 2015 Acrylic on French linen, 240 × 180 cm |
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| (a portion of wild carrot dream) |
After the tour, our group headed to block 9 for our acrylic painting workshop conducted by a painter.
We were all really eager and excited to get started since most of us were first timers and have not laid our hands on acrylic paint before. (Or even get dirtied by it.)
We were first briefed on the medium we were about to use which was acrylic paint, since the painter Del Kathryn Barton used it for her artworks.
We started off with the basic colours of red, yellow, blue, mixing them till we formed the colour wheel as shown below. (Black and white not part of the spectrum.)
We then learned the 6 common painting techniques and recreate them as shown within 15 minutes. It was a little rush in fact since the entire workshop including the tour was less than 3 hours.
The 6 techniques as follows (sample below):
-Impasto
-Sgraffito
-Glazing
-Dry Brush
-Sfumato
-Stippling
Last but not least, each of us was given a 8 x 8 inch canvas to sketch and paint a portrait. Portraits of people has always been my nemesis and so not my thing to begin with, especially the face. I wasn’t sure what was on my mind that day and I ended up painting a picture of an old man.
The real challenge was to input as many ‘freshly learned’ techniques as possible into our canvas.
My most obvious ones used were Impasto (beard), Sgraffito (hair) and Sfumato (background). It a was a hell load of fun painting and I experienced therapeutic moments and satisfaction!
