Transfer Techniques, John Wells

                               

I decided to start making marks in the style of my artist throughout my sketchbook as I am making my own journey throughout my sketchbook. I started by sectioning off a piece of John Wells "Microcosm" with a view finder, I then looked carefully at the work, looking at the way Wells has presented the marks. I wanted to use paint for this piece because I knew that I could create texture and marks in the similar way that Wells does. Once I had blended my work together, I got a spatula and started to make marks into the wet paint. Overall I feel that this piece didn't go very well. the blue is too bright therefore not blending in with the rest of the colours and the piece, I hadn't efficiently made my artists marks into the work. After thinking for some time, I realised that I could link my page on transfer studies in with this, as i have mentioned before, I wasn't happy with my transfer page as I feel that it looked too plain and boring, nothing really drew much interest to the page. It was overlooked. For that reason I decided to stick my transfer onto this, page, the background makes it stand out much more and it now catches your attention as soon as you look at it. However, the blue was still too bright, I tried to paint over it in a darker colour but it just made it worse. So after doing some more thinking about what I could tone down the garish blue with, I decided to wash over it with black ink (watered down). It turned out well, the colour had been toned down and gave even more attention to the transfer piece, which it what I wanted. 

Overall, I am please with how this has turned out. I have incorporated both my newly learnt transfer techniques and my artists work into one. Without realising, I have also created layers into my sketchbook,  the paint has been layered on top of each other to create a thick textured piece and finally the transfer has been placed onto the top. I also feel that by toning down the blue colour, it has given more life to the other colours, they now stand out more, making the overall piece work a lot better.