Create

For create, I painted an acrylic wall paint for my bedroom inspired by James Rizzi’s “City Day, City Night” painting. I used a large canvas as my surface and different acrylic colours as my media. I chose acrylic as I wanted my painting to be bold and bright. I called my painting “Happy City”. It took several weeks to plan, research and create my final piece.

Log Book

For the first few days, I researched further about James Rizzi’s artwork. Firstly, I decided to do a painting inspired by his “City Day, City Night” painting. I used a day and night background with different blue shades and different shaped building with bright colours. Before I did the first painting, I did several sketches on my book and tried different building shapes and colours.

Once I was happy and confident, I started drawing my city buildings on the canvas. I had to draw lots of buildings as it was a big canvas. I used different shaped buildings and gave them different faces inspired by the different people I know. I divided the sky in the middle to separate the day sky and night sky. I drew sun and clouds on the day sky and stars and moon on the night sky.

Then I started adding colours to my painting. Acrylic paint gave me a great variety of colours to choose for the buildings, windows and doors. I tried to balance the colour throughout my painting. I used a bigger flat paintbrush to colour the sky. A medium-size brush to do the buildings as I had to be careful when I paint around the windows and doors. I used a smaller brush to paint the windows and doors. The hardest part was colouring the stars and the faces.

I used violet, red, yellow, green, magenta, white, brown, cadmium yellow, cyan and dark blue. Sometimes I mixed colours to create the colour I liked. After the paint was all dried I used a black marker pen to outline all the buildings, windows, doors, faces, starts, clouds, sun and moon. The outline makes the painting good.

I’m proud and happy with my final piece. It looks brilliant. I learned a lot about using colours, balancing colours and effect of the outline. When I look at my painting, it makes me happy and smiles.