Attempt to Paint #2

I had the opportunity to try another attempt to paint. This time I think it was more successful. I collaborated with Kristen McDonald, which was fun. We used one of Ted Harrison's paitings to give us inspiration, but did not follow his painting exaclty. It was great to have an image to look to for ideas and I liked being able to choose elements that we wanted to include. I absolutely love Ted Harrison's work, he was really influenced by the Northern landscape and Aboriginal culture. He uses colour so nicely, by blending differnt shades of colour to create a certain effect. Kristen and I tried to capture some of Ted Harrison's colour technique by mixing colours and creating shades for the sky and the ocean. It was fun working together and painting again. I think if I were to have students create relicas of Ted Harrison's paitings I would emphasis the they can choose aspects to focus on, for example colour, or sky and not need to add everything. You can see below a Ted Harrison's original painting and Kristen and my version.