Category: Final Project

For my second painting, the evening image draft, I decided to layer white gouache over a darker background to highlight the lighter parts.

For the final image, I think I can work on getting more hard edges for the building structure and balancing out the saturation of colour within the light source and how it spills onto the opposing wall.

I explored with two colour schemes and compositional methods for this image:

In the first colour test, I tried to stick to the colours in the actual image but I wasn’t getting very dynamic tones. I took your advice for the second image and skewed the houses a bit, much like how Frank Webb does, and used colours similar to his paintings that would give the overall painting more contrast.

I think I can work on shifting more hues with the second draft and being neater with the shapes so as to give the houses more structure. I think I can increase the saturation of the colours used as well to make the painting more vibrant. Do let me know what else I can do to achieve better tone and saturation overall. Thanks!

I studied the compositions and tones of Frank Webb’s paintings of houses and I plan to do 2 landscapes from trips during my exchange programme:

a. A cluster of houses I saw when I was in the Faroe Islands

b. A snowy blue toned evening in Iceland with singular light source

Here are the studies of tone for Frank Webb’s paintings:

Here are the tonal and compositional drafts I did and photo references:

a. A cluster of houses I saw when I was in the Faroe Islands

b. A snowy blue toned evening in Iceland with singular light source