I have been through my sketchbooks looking at my experiments and developments to see what techniques I want to use in my final outcome. I particularly like the responses that I did after seeing Guy Catling's art work. I found that these compositions worked best onto photograph paper as it gave the end result a better quality. I removed sections of the photograph with a knife and laid newspaper beneath it. Adding newspaper means that more tonal variation is brought to the composition. It also means that I can take the work that I had been doing in the style of Tom Phillips, and apply it to the composition. I used line to add subtle colour to certain sections of the photograph so that a harmony is formed between the black and white photo and the acrylic paint that I then added on top. I printed with acrylic paint, circular marks to provide a wholesome mood. Forming circular shapes is important as it means that I can reflect how a person should be seen for their entire personality. I selected to use orange and pink acrylic paint to form a bright warm mood in order to create a celebration of individuality. I have also used white acrylic paint to further brightens the composition as it is prominent against the tonal photograph. I have printed these marks using a milk bottle top. This allows me to make smaller circular marks and also when used on its side, I can makes short straight marks which add flecks of colour and contrasts the circular marks.
After going through scale and arrangement of my final outcome and seeing which would look best, I have decided to use this 3 A2 size photographs and 6 A3 photographs. I have chosen to work on a large scale so that there is plenty of room for me to work into the photographs without it looking overcrowded. Also when I cut sections of the photograph out, these will be large enough to be significant in the composition, meaning that I can work into the newspaper more which I will lay behind the photo. I decided to arrange several compositions together to form one big outcome as I think that this worked well in Shaun Kardinal's 'Alterations (found and unbound)' which I have spoken about in earlier blog posts. This allows me to represent many individuals and their bright nature, with different organic marks being made on each photograph. I have chosen to use photographs that I have taken on landscapes rather than people to make the outcome less obvious of what it is about. I want the viewer to remain inquisitive as to what the outcome is portraying, this way each person will have their own interpretation of it and therefore their individuality will be discovered from seeing this.
I set myself a full college day, 5 hours, to execute a mock final outcome. I had already printed the relevant photographs on a size down from what my actual final outcome will be, and so I could work into them straight away. I began by removing sections of each photograph in which I found would provide an obscure shape, give a large area for me to work in beneath or to accentuate another building close by. I then added wallpaper and newspaper beneath each section and worked into the newspaper adding like after being inspired by Tom Phillips to explore 'reductive process' in this way. Adding wallpaper behind provides vibrant sections of colour which starkly contrast the black and white photograph, whilst the line I have added using coloured biro pens adds a less obvious colour. I also used line on the photograph to add subtle colour so that a harmony is formed between the vivid background from the wallpaper, to the tonal photograph and then to the vibrant foreground of acrylic paint. I printed orange, pink and white acrylic paint onto the photographs as I have done before in my developments.
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