Cowboys and Indians-texture

For the past few weeks on this project I felt I couldn't really connect to the project and this was effecting the results of my work. They was half heartedly done no workmanship with in it. I felt that I had run dry of studying Cowboys, but after researching a little more and finding somthing that inspires me I felt I could push on and give a little more than I have been.

• I drew a cowboy from mind and added cuttings of shape to the leather parts of his out for but only to the parts I wanted shadow I think it has work really well on the hat but not as much on the coat, if I had done smaller cuttings and expressed the creases on his coat then I feel it would have been a stronger image   

• I added black pastel for a textured back ground, I think it's a really good medium to use to capture technique.

• after realising how nice of texture pastel  is I pushed it forward. I fell in love with the oil colours smudging and battling with each other on the page. I wanted to express this and the texture that it was developing and to show it at its best I did it with out strong line work and without identification of any of the characters features. 

   • a bit of an easy one here but I'm happy with the results on this one. Not for texture but for the perspective of the image. I used white card paper and blue roll. I cut out line and shadow out of the card so the textured paper would be the voice of the image.

 

• back to ink, I think ink splashes bring great tones and texture values to images. If you can look past it as a splash and as a image you can really see weathered and old skin 

• using 2b pencil and using a pressured and tough technique to build up the lead on the cartigue so it would smudge. I then stool it in my bag rapped in silk to see what texture it would develope. The result I got was impressive I feel it defiantly gives a texture. A fog smokey feel, old sepia, and slight moment is caught in this method. Love it