Picasso Horse Painting Critical Analysis

1) I chose the blue monochromatic colour scheme. This means that I only used shades of the colour blue. Not mixtures of blue and other colours, but shades of blue. To make shades, I mixed the blue with the colour black and/or white. I chose an accent colour which is the opposite colour of the monochromatic colour. In this case, the accent was orange because that is the opposite of blue on the colour wheel. I used this because if the whole painting was blue, every component on the painting would blend in and nothing would be visible. So I used orange behind the horse so the horse would stand out.

2) The first thing I did was trace the real horse portrait and transferred it on to another piece of nutex paper. Then what I did was edited the horse by changing the shape, making more viewpoints and making designs within the horse. Everything so far went pretty smoothly but I reached a difficulty; the background. Making the background at first was exceptionally difficult. I tried putting a few ideas on tracing paper so I could decide between them but nothing I could do worked. So when I started my final painting I just came up with a background I liked and put it right on the nutex paper. The painting at times was difficult because of the little designs in the horse but everything pulled through and I ended up with a painting I am happy with.

Final Picasso Horse Painting

Picasso Horse Process