Opening a Door

So the first thing I needed to do was to get out of my sketchbook and try something new.  I had never worked large scale before and I figured that the freedom of movement would be a nice change.

Deciding that I would take inspiration from my doorway drawings from my previous posts and the photographs of an old, abandoned building - I rolled out a large sheet of paper, about the 3/4 the height of the wall; went down to the technican's and got two large containers of emulsion paint (both black and white) and just went for it:

I didn't just use the emulsion paint, I tried to get the most out of it and build up as much texture I could using only the paper.  This meant that I was continuously layering the paint (white on black, black on grey, etc) and then scraping away the surface when the paint was dry (and sometimes wet - creating hardened lumps of paint).  I also tried tearing into the surface of the paper a little bit, without tearing holes into the piece.

Once I had that much done, I started to add elements of chalk pastels and charcoal over areas of paint and also used plaster to create a rough texture.