Abstract Piece

Abstract Piece

During a lesson, we walked to Riversly Park to get some inspiration in order to create an abstract response to what we saw, smelt, felt and heard. I had a plan before we left: I'd take a piece of paper and make markings of different surfaces, I decided to do this because the textures would vary depending on the material and would give an insight into finer details. I used pencil for these as I wanted the simple texture, not color. I also did a mindmap of what I could hear and what i could see, which would help me remember when I was creating my piece. This is the piece of paper I took out on the right, even the texture of the paper reflects the atmosphere of the park, the crumpled texture reflects the fact I had struggled to hold all the objects and the paper, and it was windy as the paper was blown around a little as well.
 I also collected these objects from the park, mostly leaves, some bark and sticks and some rubber lining I found on the floor and a part of a conker shell. Using these objects I gathered and the mindmaps and the textures I took, I had to create my response. I didn't manage to fill the whole page, I think this is partially a time management error, but also as I'd never done something like this so I was a bit overwhelmed and didn't know where to start.

I decided to start on the green on the left, the horizontal wide brush strokes in a short overlapping pattern mimic the layering of the trees and their leaves, how sometimes you can see through and sometimes not. I used bright green then gradually mixed in more black to add more depth. The yellow on the left contracts the cool greens and blues, as the children playing at school on the playground juxtaposed the chilling wind and cold weather of the park.
The texture of the emulsion over the brown paper added another layer of texture, so I used a varying amount of pressure so the texture underneath could be seen sometimes. I used green ink to drip down to show the fluidness of the movements of not only the trees but the wind and water, I think this would have come across more effective if I'd used a different colour ink as the green blends into the marks I'd already made.





Moving down the piece, I used a thick brush and stippled thick black and blue acrylic paint, this was to show two things; the sky and the river. The black represents the impurities concealing the pure water underneath and the harsh stabbing motion shows the fast flowing water as it ripples over the things in the water below. The white gaps show the clouds, and how they're somewhat transparent, as they occupy the foreground but let the background through.



Overall I'm pleased with my outcome, although not finished, I've learned a lot about abstract art and how it comes about, and the process involved, and I will be using these skills in the future to create more work in a similar way.

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