Wanru Zhao

In Task2, I was inspired by American illustrator Jayde Fish’s suzhou Garden, which is a very large painting with a size of 300*180*5cm. According to this brief, I tried to find some interesting patterns in this work, so I found the stones in the garden and the pillars in the courtyard. The shapes of the stones are very rich, and each of them is almost different in size/shape. It is just because of this that they look natural. In my paintings, I try to draw stones of different sizes and combine them in a collage way. At the same time, red columns in the courtyard combine with the irregularity of the stone. The texture of the column itself is very solid, but in my painting I made it very soft and easy to put different shapes, which is my understanding in this painting and the inspiration and attempt brought to me.

For this task, I chose as my reference a set of London sunsets, which I took in Kingston, London. The colours in the photos have obvious colour contrasts, such as the dark shadows of the branches and the warm tones of the sunset. In my ten paintings, I choose different styles and mediums to display, like stick figure painting, colour lead painting, oil painting and so on. In terms of style, I also adopted some abstract expressions. I tried to use simple lines to reflect the sky at sunset. The colour block in the picture was very small, so I enlarged this detail in my work. Obviously, I mainly experimented with a variety of styles of tree branches and leaves: silhouettes of tree branches, using simple lines to outline shapes, and silhouettes of real leaves and paints. According to my ten simple paintings, I think I can draw more details of leaves, because in general, most of them are the whole form of branches.