Sketchbook - Painting test page

These are a couple of test paintings in practice for a triptych a plan to make from my butterflies. The test is purely to see how well I could work with a new water colour palette.

Orange

Images of an orange produced with my new extension tubes. Thoroughly impressed with the quality.

The Natural Camera

When playing with my extension tubes I tried the ever so famous 'Close up of an Eye'. I am impressed with the detail produced.

Butterfly Studies

Another focus on the Painted Lady's coloured wing.

Butterfly Studies

 A close up shot of the Painted Lady's wing.

Soft Pastel Spherical Shapes

A repeat of my last two posts, only these were done with soft pastels on an A3 scale. I would be pleased with this if I had managed to keep my paper clean. I feel the patches of unwanted colours at the bottom of the drawing ruin the whole thing. 

Painted Spherical Shapes

More from my Abstraction project. I aimed to create coloured bubbles, but found that making 3D effects of sphere's worked better.

Abstract Plate

For this my idea came from a mounted square plate on my wall. I used the same technique from my Floral Abstraction piece, and I used the shadowing on the background instead of the plate.

Floral Abstraction

This is an A5 drawing from my Abstraction sketchbook. I focused on the middle of a Begonia and created a shaded effect using pointillism. The Begonia's I studied were red, so I used the colour palette in the background to give the drawing more volume.

2D Sculpture (2)

Another sculpture from the Barbara Hepworth Gallery, only this time I used the mosaic effect in Photoshop.

Digitally Drawn Peach Rose

I coloured this in Photoshop with a basic paintbrush. I had drawn on a new layer over an image I uploaded, and after finishing I deleted the background, leaving only the painted image. 

2D Sculpture

A sculpture from the Barbara Hepworth Gallery in Yorkshire, outlined with basic paintbrush and background patterned with a simple photoshop background.

Abstracted Ballet Shoes

For this I was simply playing around with photoshop. It started as an image of ballet shoes, but I had removed the background and edited the hue. Using a smudge tool, I pulled at the edges. I was left with this abstracted image of ballet shoes.

Peach Rose

Personal photography. I edited this image in photoshop so that the attention would be completely drawn to the strong colour of the rose. This is my favourite effect when using photoshop.

Venetian Sun Set

Sun set in Venice, photographed from water taxi. This image was very difficult to capture, and I had managed to take it just in time. I think the whole image gives a peaceful atmosphere, which is very deceiving, as when I took the photo I was far from peaceful. The thunder from the water taxi's engine was loud enough to block out thought, and the temperature felt below freezing. A deceitful image that seems serene, that was taken in a form of chaos.

Chocolate in Chocolate

Smarties emptied in to an Italian hot chocolate. I did the same thing with this image I had done in the previous post. I was much happier with this outcome as opposed to the Venetian Mask, in this image, to me it feels as though you can reach in and grab the beverage. 

Venetian Mask

 Venetian Mask purchased from Venice, Italy. I wanted focus to be set on my eyes, but instead of enhancing the colour, I copied the image in to a layer on top of the original. I set the new layer to black and white, and then I used the rubber tool to erase around the eyes. This revealed the coloured image underneath, leaving the final outcome above.