Back to Square One

Both vulgar and hands didn't end well. I got bored, unmotivated, and frustrated  so in an artistic strop I picked up my charcoal and drew what I saw in my head out on to paper, and didn't stop!

Thinking about energy and movement I kept my strokes quick and bold over the smudged charcoal yet smooth.  In the first four drawings I focused on the whole crowd, focusing on the shapes I could see stand out from the mass of bodies.

In the next to drawings I focused on one couple I saw in the crowd. I put one photograph into black and white which made shapes bolder and easier to identify and that was when I saw the couple. I really liked the shape they made as a pair, both curved over and into each other the man was dressed in black with dark hair, the girl in white with blonde hair and her arm was holding him joining the two together. So I drew them, at first I didn't like the drawings too much but as I left them up on my wall and I looked at them they grew on me till I could think of nothing but painting them.

In this painting I kept my colour palette limited the red being the only rich statement colour. I added some blue to the greys only to keep them grey from being to bland and flat. But since I wanted movement around the couple but not too much I experimented with mixing Brusho and varnish together and used it to create thin layers over the background and some areas of the figures, much like when I was using the charcoal I used quick free brush strokes for both the varnish mixture and the black outlines.

I'm happy with the finial product. I like the intensity of the colours and the free lines and with how the varnish has turned out as it represents the lights at a concert, however, in my next painting I will probably use less varnish and more washes.