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Extended Project Qualification 2017
For my EPQ I'm recreating a 16th - 19th-century painting of a fox hunt, These are images of my final piece progression. It didn't start off great due to me forgetting to prime my canvas and drawing straight on there with the fore ground objects. First of all, it's very important to prime your canvas before going to town with oils. It does really matter what you use to prime your canvas with just as long as it dries and creates a safe barrier between the material and the oil paints. The oil paints can eat away the underneath material leaving cracks and signs of decay on your finished piece, these conditions don't show straight away but after a couple of months. In November (2016), for my elective in school time, I did an oil landscape, this was before I was taught professionally how to use oils. I didn't prime my canvas and now a few months later there are signs of the canvas starting to decay.
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After noticing my mistake i went a head and primed the top have of the canvas, leaving the bottom half where ive left the sketches I've done. With oils it's important / more effective to layer your paint and divide your grounds. I'm currently working from back to front.
For the background I literally sat and watched a load of Bob Ross videos on Youtube - I recommend Bob Ross if you want to paint majestic landscapes, he teaches you how to do it and it's very easy to understand and do.
4th September 2017
Today, I finished my EPQ final piece. I very happy with the outcome. The next step is to seal it in with a gloss and to find a frame that would make it look more authentic.
This is my painting photoshopped into a frame. This is how I imagine to roughly present it at the end.
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