Personal project in progress

This past week has been ridiculously busy! I have managed to get all but one piece done for Creative Composition, and I’m now working on my personal project for the past few days.  Understandably, I have had no time to visit anyone’s blog and I think I have about 90 articles to read! I will get through them all, I promise!

Some of you may remember a painting I created a couple of months ago for my personal project:

This was the final outcome for the first block of my project, and for this block the final outcome is a variation on this piece. The idea was to take this image further and I had taken sections of it and was going to recreate it perhaps in different textures or colours.  Well, I found this incredibly difficult.  I played about with different textures and colours, and none of the pieces I came up with did this painting any justice.

A couple of days ago I was trying out new textural ideas but although I loved the texture, I still couldn’t recreate this image.  This is the texture I came up with:

I achieved this by priming my canvas with white emulsion and whilst it was wet I applied wet paper and emulsioned over it, creating this lovely wrinkled texture.

I then went through my book on Cubism and thought about collaging on top of this but that didn’t work out well either. So I came at the painting from a completely different angle. I thought of Kazimir Malevich, the originator of (Russian) Suprematism, which is the abstract art based on geometric forms.  This piece, also called Suprematism, is what inspired me:

I sketched out new imagery based on my painting but also inspired by Malevich.  You can see the motifs from my previous painting running through all of the images below. For instance, you will see that there are curved and straight lines.  These represent guitar strings and each image has six lines, except the second image which has twelve lines, because the section I am recreating has twelve guitar strings in it. The circles represent the area around the sound hole in an acoustic guitar.  You can see an inverted treble clef and an abstracted one. The rectangular shapes represent the bridge and pickups on an electric guitar.  The little tiny circles like dots scattered around the image represent the screws on the bridge. There are also six of these on each image. Now these are just rough images to get the composition down, but I really love where these are going:

I intend on putting these images onto textured canvasses and using rich colours such as gold, russet, blue, etc.  I have laid the foundations for the four canvasses, and have painted the first layer of watered down acrylic and have left it to dry. I will apply further layers of watered down colour and hopefully build up a rich background.  Here is the first layer:

I will have these paintings completed by tomorrow evening, as I want to hand them in on Monday, so I shall post the results when finished.  Sheesh that was a long post!