Colourful Fish from the Travel Book of Amrita Tiwary
Expressing oneself with colours is one of the best ways. We are surrounded by colours. Have you ever stopped and thought of the colours that's inside you? Well, Amrita tries to often work with the colours in her mind and in her soul. Especially when she is travelling, she relies a lot on the colours that her mind and soul relate to and transfer that to her artworks.
Here is another work from her travel book, which she titled it as "Bold Gold".
Title: Bold Gold in Oil Pastel. A work from travel book of Amrita Tiwary
The Bold Gold is worked with the medium OIL PASTELS. A medium that budding artists, children and blenders of colours love. What is so special about this medium? The surface of an oil pastel is often hardy powdery than other pastels, but at the same time it is more difficult to protect with fixatives. They are bold and bright and shiny. Easily blended and can break easily too.
This medium was first created by Sakura in 1925 and called it Cray-Pas. These were a combination of wax, oil and pigment that was meant to be non-toxic like crayons and definitely suited for children, beginners in the art field.
An interesting fact about Oil Pastel is that, it was first used in the 16th Century notably by the Great Artist Leonardo da Vinci. It then flourished in the 18th Century and again in the late 19th Century and remains popular even today.
Oil Pastels by brands Camel and Doms in India
The Bold Gold fish was completely coloured using the Camel Brand of Oil pastels by Amrita. This is how the sketch and colouring of the Bold Gold Fish was done.
Begin with the sketch:
Whenever a fish is to be sketched, there are different points that one can begin from. In this sketch, the fish mouth is the beginning leading to the upper body till tail and then creating the oval shape of the entire body. Adding the fins and stripes to its body gives the complete sketch of the fish.
The sketch completes when the coral reef is added towards the border of the picture plane.
Once the sketch is done, the colouring begins. It is the texture, the strokes, the blend what gives form to any artwork and brings life to the art.
The colour begins with the body of fish avoiding the stripes and the eye followed by adding a darker shade to the first layer. The adding of any layer or colour should always be the one complementing one another. There should be a blend creating a presence of its own and as One.
Each layer that's added and blended, brings the fish to its existence visually.
Once the body is coloured, we move onto the fins and tail of the Bold Gold. The stripes on its body needs attention too. Each stripe is to be coloured carefully with the effect from base layer till texture is added to it.
As the artist adds the layers to the stripes and bpd pf the fish, the background - water area - is not be forgotten. To create the gentle and soft waves under the sea along with the corals, the choice of colour should be considered. Not necessary it has to be the colour that you think. The colour should be what you see at that time in front of your eyes. The colour that's being reflected to the mind. The color that appears due to presence of light source (here the light source are the sun rays)
Once the colours are added, blended - texture is something that should be then worked upon. Do keep in mind that we are working with oil pastels here. This is a medium which is smooth and easy to spread on any surface, creating texture with rough effect can be challenging at times. this is where the manner in which the colour is held and applied on the blended smooth area of the already coloured portions. Each colour should have its own presence and yet be THE part of the entire picture. Here the shade Black is used to bring out the prominence of the stripes, the corals and darkness of the under sea view.
As the artist completes colouring of it, she then protects it with the fixative spray. (Note: fixative used here is of the Brustro Brand)
The final visual appearance of the BOLD GOLD is as shown in the picture below:
The colours that the artist has used in this beautiful, cute looking fish are:
Orange
Deep Yellow
Prussian Blue
Light Blue
Primary Red
Black
White
This work of artist Amrita Tiwary is also from her travel book. She always captures the nature during her trips and travels. In this short duration the one thing that she always focusses on is: "Capture what you see. Bring life to your work in the way your mind feels when you are looking at something. Capture the simple beauty and add your own touch to it."
Artist Amrita Tiwary, India
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