These two pieces were done in between projects and were predominantly due to my personal study and my love of Van Gogh's work. The one on the top left is just a direct copy of 'Wheatfield with crows' using oil paints. Although I like this piece if I were to do it again I was use a higher variety of tones within the wheat field and also make a more atmospheric sky as this is a key element to Van Gogh's work.
The one on the bottom right though was done by using a technique I learnt on a course called 'felt-making'. Although the overall process was fun, I felt the vividness of the colours used by Van Gogh was lost. I preferred the piece before it was flattened down and soaked to create felt (shown in the top right corner) as it still retained the vivid use of colour and also created the atmospheric sky that the oil painting lacked. However the variation of tones within the wheat field lacked again.
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