Higher Design Unit

This post is just temporary, but I thought it might be useful for Stu and Andy to have another Design unit to compare their own to as they rush to get it finished...

Stormy Water

"Stormy Water Study"

Oil paster on paper

A3 Size

Theres not really much to say about this one. It's just a simple oil pastel study of stormy water - It's not trying to explain the meaning of the universe or anything like that. It's just a simple, regular oil pastel study. Nothing more nothing less. Thats all. There. Now I've got a nice little paragraph of text to go with my picture. It looks so bland without the text.

Culzean Swan Pond

"Swan Pond"

Acyrilic on canvas

42 x 30cm

This was actually my first water study taken from the photos I took at culzean. Very different from painting with watercolours. With watercolours, you have to get everything right first time, with acyrilic you paint over it again and again - thats the point. At the moment I'm doing an oil pastel study of some stormy water at sea, which I'll post eventually. Let me know which of the two water studys you prefer...

Swan Pond

"Swan Pond With Ducks"

Watercolour on paper,

42 x 30cm,

My mind is on water at the moment. Its such a hard thing to "capture". The patterns are complex and ever-changing. I'm going to be completing studies of water in different conditions (ie. rough sea, calm lake etc.) with different media. For my studies of calm water, I took a few photos at the swan pond in culzean castle. This is the first of a swan pond series.