PIXEL PAINTING FROM SOURCE IMAGE OF TOOTHPASTE ON BRUSH

The morning ritual of cleaning your teeth.

I chose a toothbrush loaded with toothpaste for my source image. The morning ritual of cleaning one’s teeth is something that everyone all over the world does every single morning of their lives – or at least you’d hope so!

It symbolises the start of a new day, getting up and shaking off the grogginess and feeling fresher.

I really enjoyed painting the squares and found the repetition of painting calming; almost like a meditation, but I found mixing the colours very difficult. We were using just red, yellow and blue with white to lighten. Making the ‘minty fresh green’ was particularly hard as the yellow kept making it too citrine and it kept going muddy. Overall I wasn’t unhappy with this but learning more about colour mixing using CMYK has been helpful and I will attempt more pixel painting using these other colours.

Painting opposite colours: Warm and Cold

I used Georgia O’Keefe as reference images for my warm and cold paintings. I quickly realised just how truly brilliant she was and how becoming expert at colour mixing must take years.

I enjoyed that process of painting but I wasn’t over the moon with the results – if I am honest, I couldn’t actually work out which one was warm and which one was cold! That might be due not only to my novice stature as a painter/colourist but also because I really do see things in a different, mixed around way eg; left and right/ daylight savings:is it back or forward/ reading bottom paragraph on page first. Whatever it is, there is definitely room to keep practising and improving. The abstract blues red and dark green image I imagined and painted myself. I felt this was the most successful image portraying a temperature – this one being a cool feel.