Week 5 - Paint What You Hear

This week was an emotion painting. We had to close our eyes and listen to the noises around us and paint what we could hear. I did this on a cold wet day sitting outside with all my painting equipment around me. I didn't really like doing this painting - couldn't really get into it. All I could hear were cars, lots of car noises - fast, slow, loud and lots of different birds, flying past, chirping, fighting on the roof! With my eyes shut I noticed it was a light black with speckles infront of my eyes and if I squeezed my eyes very tightly the speckles became green/yellow blobs. So..... this is what I painted - a black background with speckles, with lines of car noises - all different sounds in the distance and ever now and then a car close by in a different direction. The bird sounds became arrows, my dogs claws on the concrete sounded like yellow dashes and the rain on the roof white dashes/dots/lines. As I said before - couldn't get into this piece and didn't enjoy painting it and don't like it at all!