FMP - Unit 13 - Final Piece (& Process)

This shows the process of my final piece and what it looked like after I completed it. It is an acrylic painting of my cat and dog (Binx & Penny) in the style of the artist 'Leonid Afremov'.

I first drew the outline of 'Binx' and 'Penny' on my A2 canvas using a HB graphite pencil. Then I painted the background using black acrylic paint and a 3/4 flat brush. With the same brush, I added big strokes of the colour using the 'Impasto' technique - where the paint is laid on thicker than usual in most areas and not really blended (unlike my usual 'realism' style). I used red, blue, yellow, green etc. as many colours as I could mix (like Afremov's signature style) in the background - going by paintings he created (looking at the research on my phone). I started with Binx (my cat) by blocking him in with black, blues and reds using the medium flat brush.