Week 3 - Painting Class | Landscape as Metaphor

Work in Progress

The image in the middle I was going to leave as is and say that it was a landscape of my mind in the morning. 

This was inspired by the brut art philosophy. I applied very thick paint for the sea and tried to keep the brush strokes. This was a mixture of blue, green, purple, and black paints. I intentionally did this and let it dry thick to be the waves, and in the style of brut art, it has a very high horizon line. I made the sky orange because it is the complimentary colour to the colours in the sea. 

Inspiration

Jean Dubuffet | Large Black Landscape | 1946

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/a/art-brut​​​​​​​

I found a cut-off waste bit of canvas in the class. While I was waiting, the shape of the canvas dictated a landscape. I used the same colours that I used for my first landscape the week before - Pandanus 9AM painting. The palette is limited to 3 colours only.