Abstract illustration I am not familiar with any of the artists on the list, however this adds spontaneity to this exercise. Picking blindly, I choose George Gershwin. I have chosen 'Summertime' from his compositions. The track is just over 5 minutes long. Having never created an abstract piece, I intend to work quickly with the music and freely. The exercise asks for mixed media. In the first instance, for looseness I have chosen to work with chalks. The title in itself conjures up images of Summer, however I didn't want to work with definite images so I closed my eyes and followed the task in hand, to create marks. My movement consisted of long strokes, curling in on themselves. The colours I used were blues, oranges, yellows and greens (Summer). I opened my eyes to see a very rough image. I especially like the top right hand corner of the image, where the blue envelopes the orange - A Summer sky. I looked at my long strokes and like the idea of ...