Illustrator's Toolkit Week 3 - Paint 

For our third week we looked at using paint. I specifically chose to look at using watercolours and acrylics.

Watercolour

In our lecture we were shown a number of artists who use watercolour paint, I was particularly inspired by the works of the following artists when creating my own works this week.

Arthur Melville

John Singer Sargent, ​specifically the less detail to his paintings was something I wanted to look at recreating in my own work.

For my own works I began by painting landscapes from photographs I had taken over the summer.

When looking to create a portrait using watercolour I looked into the works of the artist Ambrose McEvoy:

I then attempted to create my own watercolour portrait

Acrylic

I am not as confident using acrylic paint as I am with watercolour, so I began by painting two simple still lives of items found on my desk

For my acrylic portrait I looked at the works of artist J. C. Leyendecker 

I created my own portrait using acrylic paint and paint pens for finer details