OCA 2024 - 2025 Painting 2.3
A cross-section of work from Painting 2.3
1 Pictures
Using photographs and collaging them into/onto different grounds, or painting something uninteresting, can change its value if painted well.
Table Top Mountain and Township
Table Top Mountain juxtaposed with the Township
Elephant and SA Flag
South African elephant juxtapose onto the South African Flag
Continent, flags ,elephant, township
Juxtaposing the elements to produce an interesting composition
2 The Object
The object can be made of different materials or different shapes
Hybrid - Sheep
Using different surfaces - slate with acrylic
Mrs Sheep
Slate - with acrylics
Circles
Using a non-uniform shape and painting a conventional shape
Angles and Stripes
Using another obscure shape and painting with lines
3 Colour and Tonal
Second take - Still Life
Using a single colour, to create a tonal painting.
Gardening
An object in it's correct colours
Elephant family herd
Colour and contrast - Acrylics
Waterbuck herd
Contrasting colours - Acrylics
4 Redaction
Taking out and adding in
Blue space
Layering and pulling back the colours - Acrylics
Winter
Redaction, a technical term for quite simply altering by taking an image away and then repainting.
Croc
Scratching wet paint to produce an effect.
Blue Butterfly
Changing by redacting
5 Landscape
Colour and texture
Landscape and figures
Landscapes with figures
You shouldn't be there
Take different subjects and combine them.
Monument Valley
Landscapes from around the world
Grand Canyon
An abstract landscape
6 Abstract
Using colour and abstract uniformed grounds combined with figures
Style of "April Virgoe"
Acrylics on a silver tray, using the straight blocks inside a curved shape.
Pareidolias
How using a random pattern can create an inanimate object
Pigs
The abstract background and pigs didn't really work in this concept.
Calf
The abstract background worked well in this instance.
7 Intersection
Where two concepts, surfaces meet
Just Coming
Slate - Acrylics
Tropical Release
Abstract on Canvas using Acrylics
Well!!
Slate with Acrylic
Having a drink
8 Digital
Painting in a pixilated form or in the style of a filter
Meeting
Acrylics. Tonal study.
Keswick Lake
Acrylics - Pointilism
Durdle Door
Acrylics - Pointilism
The Old Barn
Acrylics - Pointilism
9 Performance
The performance to create the art
Mechanically produced ground
Using a mechanically or staged filmed ground - "Pollock style"
Strength and Power
Acrylics -using the image to show strength
Moo! Can you see me
Abstract - hidden
Buffalo Sparks
Abstract Ground
Machine Art
