Kandinsky (M3 Chpt3)

Introduction

Despite not being the greatest fan of Kandinsky's work, I actually enjoyed this chapter much more than I'd anticipated. I used the technique suggested by Viv; ie painting sheets of paper with acrylics and making a collage type picture. This was undoubtedly a really useful technique to learn and I'll revisit this again. It got rid of any problems working with  subtle changes in colour and allowed for really clear and bright pictures.

I had a good look on the internet for pieces of Kandinsky's work I liked and thought would be good to try out:

I decided on two images to work with

1. Blue Kandinsky

I started making sheets of coloured paper:

Then cut out some some shapes and started to lay these out onto a blue grey base:

Kandinskys original design (ish). I cropped the image, hoping to retain the overall composition:

Then making a few changes:

Glued down and lines going on:

Completed:

2. Bisecting Circles:

The painting I had chosen was clearly too complicated to be achievable on a small scale so I cropped the image to a workable size:

Then as before painted up sheets of paper. I worked on a base of pale umber mixed with white.

Laying down shapes and circles:

Once I had laid the shapes down and glued them. I took a sheet of tracing paper and laid this over the top to try out lines before committing to them. I made a rough frame around the outside. First go:

I thought the right vertical was too dominant for the composition so retried this: I preferred the second attempt.

The finished piece:

Finally I made an edit of the image and focused in on a particular section because I thought it worked really well.