My family goes to a local pottery painting place every year, but I rarely know what I want to paint until I get there. This time I thought I’d try something in Van Gogh’s style, because although they tell you to paint 3 layers to get an even colour, I know from experience that it looks patchy when I try to do blocks of colour. I find it easier to go for pointillism or impasto.
I started off with Van Gogh’s brush strokes, but changed to pointillism halfway through when I realised I was going to run out of time. I was also working from an image as it appeared on an iPhone that kept timing out! Here’s the picture I was working from:
And here’s my pottery version:
I think the white speckles came from someone else’s palette, when I was running low on a colour and didn’t realise they’d got the speckled version.
I’m not sure I’ll try this technique again, but everything’s a learning experience.
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