With this exercise, the latter option had more of an intrigue for me and the idea of bright colours and shapes and so my first move was to find a soft landscape, which I did in the South Downs, which I found to have the perfect gentle rolling hills and opportunity to capture the shapes and forms. When I found a good view I began making a linear, colour and tonal study in order to get to grips with the landscape, and also created a few skies in my sketchbook with cerulean and ultramarine blue.
When I looked at the studies, I realised that the hills were all green and there would be no variation or contrast in the composition, and so I decided to paint a few swatches of the possible colours that I wanted to use and then produced colour studies including the colours that I had personally chosen before starting on the final piece.
Below is my final piece, which I am very pleased with regarding how it matches with the criteria of the exercise. With this piece, I was able to create layers by fading the bottom of the hills as a new one came out with a sharp crisp line, and I was able to imply the trees with simply colour and a wonky edge of the block of colour. As this was an exercise in which you had to focus on shapes and colour, I am happy with the vibrancy and the shapes put together to create a depth and smooth texture as a soft landscape.
SOPHIE FAWCETT'S OCA LEARNING LOG 