My project for the course: Expressive Mixed-Media Illustration: Find your creative flow

My project for the course: Expressive Mixed-Media Illustration: Find your creative flow

I loved this course because it lets you loose, you get to embrace your mistakes and try and find creative ways to overcome them. At least this was in my case. I normally always make initial pencil sketches, then move on to painting, and here I dived straight into painting. Loved it!

acrylic paint, acrylic markers, gouache, oil pastels

This is the part of the course where we paint without sketching first, just letting go and having fun.

Cutting out the painted shapes and exploring composition. After gluing my images on black paper, I added some more embellishments with markers.

Collage was a great exercise for inspiration, choosing colors and composition options. Here is the final painting I made. Same elements, but wanted a new composition and slightly different color palette.