Inspiration Wall Exercise Part 1 - Preparation Sketches

A summary from the recent 5 weeks - 

The bottom line of this assignment is  a long process of work on an individual painting. From A-Z.

This time we had to bring different inspiration photographs/paintings of different subjects and styles - to create diversity inspiration wall of references.

After that we did a process of sketching and rethinking on our references. As a result I changed all of my references and after a second try I ended up with these amazing inspirations

Lucian Freud - my new love! And photos of Lucian Freud and his studio by the photographer David Dawson

Egon Schiele

Franz Marc

By the way everybody choose whatever they like and what inspires them just right now, from travel photos to architecture and so on...

1 - My inspirations for this exercise :)

The next stage was to play around in order to build our own composition using the inspiration wall above.
I did small and simple pencil sketches just to find the right format, composition and interior.

2 - Simple play pencil sketches.

Next stage was to create some oil studies on cardboard covered with gesso. This assignment helps to understand the color scheme vs. composition relations for the future large painting that I will do.

The colors here are mainly black/yellow/red + some green, this is to understand the tone capacity, the composition and the depth of the future work.
We also could create complement colors oil sketches - but I didn't have the time to work on this one.
The colors you see here are not the colors that you'll see on the future big painting, these are play/search sketches for depth, color and composition research.

A tip - The use of  oil studies on cardboard covered with gesso is a cheap and sexy way to an art research you need to do in order to create a decent final painting!

Cardboard sketch 1 - black/yellow/red + some green color scheme assignment  (33x23cm).

Cardboard sketch 2 - black/yellow/red color scheme assignment (49x41cm).

Cardboard sketch 3 - black/yellow/red color scheme assignment a mix of the two above (49x41cm)

some of the brush strokes here are made with my weak right hand - I am a lefty, and that day I suffered from pain in my strong left arm. 

That's all for now. The next time I hope to show some work in progress on the large painting that will be based on the composition of these sketches.

P.s. I am in love with whippets (english dog breed), I am captured for life!

Have a great weekend,
Gali