This semester has mostly been about tone. Apparently we’re struggling with tone in our work, as a year group. Perhaps our outlook is bleak.

It’s fine, I welcome the practice. It also feels like an art school thing to do, something I’d been waiting over a year to be doing…

We tried out a few of the unusual techniques in this session:

Background first: leaving the objects without rendering until the background was complete (as pictured above).

Erasing: taking out dark patches to reveal light.

Our choice: I chose to lay varying tones and cut out shapes to compose an image with.

Other lessons to come.