The 1st photo is of an A4 experiment where I used charcoal, gouache paint, string and sticks. I was referencing one of my walk photos and simplified it a lot to make that.
The second work was A1 size brown paper and was on an easel instead. This time I was referencing three photos. The first being of white cloth tightly tied to a chain fence, the second being a heavily damaged car with bright yellow spray paint on the windshield. The last photo I was using for reference was a heavily chewed and wripped up football I found. I took the use of charcoal from the small experiment and used that to draw the cloth and made that the focus of the artwork. I took the yellow spray paint from the other photo and added it in using gouache paint. The bright colour makes that it doesn't fade into the background.
When I was using the football for reference, I intentionally didn't have it competing for attention against everything else and had it more faded to the background, in the bottom right corner.
I used charcoal, goache paint, water, wax, tape, string, Indian ink, oil pastels and wool. I ended up really liking this artwork because of the chaos of it all. Even so, it does have a structure to it and a focal point. I feel like I've learned a lot from doing this like being more loose when working and learning to through caution to the wind more often and take more risks.
