While working on Gehenna, I want to make sure I'm developing my painting skills on other pieces alongside to ensure any human error moments/ mistakes take place on smaller, lower pressure paintings. I found an old paint pour I made in second year that I was never too enthralled with, I wasn't happy with the colour scheme or the composition and so I decided this would be a great piece to practice some techniques on, seeing as I wouldn't mind too much if the results were unsuccessful.
I masked off the areas of the painting I wanted to preserve and left other areas bare, where I intended to paint a gradient over. I chose lilac and fuchsia to paint the gradient with, mixing slow drying medium into the acrylics and using a soft flat wide panel brush to add the pigment and blend the colours with. I thought by adding the lilac and fuchsia to the piece it would aid in creating a more visually pleasing colour scheme, which I believe was the case with this experiment. This was a great artistic inquiry to carry out as it allowed me to practice my masking skills (using a scalpel) and gradient/ blending skills, both of which have been quite difficult to master.
After this experiment I feel I learned more about how to mask properly, how to pair certain colour combinations to achieve certain aesthetic results and the basics of blending colours to achieve clean, seamless gradients - something I still need to improve at. I'll take these developed skills into my painting of 'Gehenna' and employ the successful aspects of the experiment into the piece to achieve similar results.
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