Poison Ivy Painting

I am producing more images to improve my rendering techniques,

This time I am starting by collecting some images that kinda match what I'm going for in my next drawing. These kind of match the mood/texture/essence of what I want.

Want to start from the abstract nature of these and let my feelings about them drive the piece forwards.

These images will give me an idea about colour palette and textures I could work with. I don't usually begin a drawing this way so I will see how this image turns out different to my other paintings.

 Started building up the image and building up the texture on the image with very large prints of my textured painting brush in blacks and greys.

















Kept building up the image but realised that, upon flipping it, I preferred it so I touched up the image, fixing things that now looked weird with the image flipped. Added more shape to the face especially.

 I thought the image looked a bit plain so I started building it up using more abstract brushstrokes over the top. This gives it more of a traingular composition and looks more stable and aesthetically pleasing. I got this idea from looking at the tree branches in my initial moodboard for this painting. I thought the V shape was really aesthetically pleasing and so used it in a more abstract way to blend the bottom of this image.


I built up the image using red and green which are complimentary colours. They harmonize really well and the red works really well as an accent, bringing out the areas in red to make certain areas look bolder and more 3D

I think this image is more abstract and textural than any I have done so far and I think this is down to sourcing textural references before I start painting. I have implemented some of these textures and shapes into my painting, giving it a painterly quality.