Priley Riley, Paintings of people walking, 9th-13th April 2014

I have spent the past few days doing quick paintings in my sketchbook from photos. I liked the paintings of two people walking through a tunnel the most, because of the extreme lighting in the tunnel, so I painted this image onto a 16 x 20 inch piece of cotton canvas fabric, shown above. I painted it in black and white to emphasize the chiaroscuro (contrast in light and dark). I used both acrylic and watercolour paint for it because I was interested to see how well these two water-based paints could be combined.