Unit 4, part 2 - Futurist painting

Dave Working II, watercolour, 2012

Lisha & Johnny II, watercolour, 2012

Lisha & Johnny III, watercolour, 2012

Lisha & Johnny IV, gouache, 2012

Re-imagining the previous drawings of moving subjects as Futurist paintings, turning depiction of movement into abstract geometric shapes.

With Dave Working II I've tried to evoke the paintings of Duchamp, with a limited, neutral colour palette. With the Lisha & Johnny paintings I've expanded the palette for a more open and brighter picture, which I hope captures the warmth and happiness in the moment of two people embracing (well, one sitting on the other, you get the idea).

I experimented with the subsequent Lisha & Johnny paintings, in trying to simplify them, the focus being on angular and geometric shapes, on abstraction in this manner to the point beyond recognition.