Using Photography

   

  

I wanted to produce collage in an almost uncontrollable way.

I wanted a result that was both suprising and abstract that would make fantasic paintings.

I used a multi-exposure film camera to take the photographs.

I had to learn how to use it right from the basics, however I think this added to the kind of effects I was working towards, giving that extra edge of not-knowing.

Really love the way that these have turned out and I feel safer using them as a starting point to my collage, knowing that the images are completely my own.

I have already started to use them in my paintings as well and they look great. I now just need to find more ppsheet to work on!

Cutting and Sticking...

Experimenting with collage.

I want to find new styles that will compliment my paintings, considering the shapes, colours, message and the overall composition of the collage and how it will look as a painting.

I also look for ways in which I can compliment the collage with the material I am using in my paintings. For example, with me painting on see through plastic, I consider which areas of the collage to paint on the front or the back of the plastic.

Examples of the new collages I am experimenting with.

Trying to use a variety of methods to distort the image.

The top images are around an A4 size.

The bottom 2 images are A2 poster size.

Again I'm painting these on plastic and I am thinking of displaying them in a sculptural way... so that the audience can walk around the images and veiw from all angles.

Coco

Observations

A few studies. Some from life, some from magazines, using crayon, pencil and pen.

My favourites are the jumping figures, I tried to capture the muscles in the different positions.

Trying to make canvas bearable...

These are reproductions of some of my collages using flat, board canvas and tracing paper.

Again using layers as the basis for these drawings.

Below I ditched the canvas and used layers of tracing paper, like my first experiments.

Summer couldn't get any longer than this...

So Summer seems to have been dragging by... with friends either working or back at home so this is what I have been doing mith my time (along with trying to get some reading done ready for my disseration)

I have continued to work with drawing, (as this is an art form I feel is still not celebrated enough) working from images that I find interesting and from my collages.

The images abobe are actually all seperate drawings but I do love seeing them all as one.

 

Insects

These are some of my favourites drawings.

I wanted to try something different on these lovely brown canvas's I got from Cass Art.

 Looking back over past work, I found some old photos of insects I had taken whilst studying my foundation course and I thought they would look perfect on these.