Oil Paint

 

Experimenting with oil paint:

  Taking inspiration from one of my chosen artists pieces (Cy Twombly- Proteus) I decided to use oil paint in order to recreate the marks and the texture used found in the painting.

Before doing these I experimented by using a brush in order to get the colour close to the one I was studying, after finding the colour I moved on to try and recreate the marks. To do this I used a palette knife instead of brush.

                         

My first experiment using this way I focused solely on trying to copy my artists piece. However after this I moved on trying to mix and create other colours using various different tools to make different affects.

Then after doing this I used the same techniques but took studies off of objects such as flowers. In my opinion these did not work as well as I was trying to create particular marks