Expensive Restaurants and Gorgeous Shoes...

... is what sprung from the makings of this Birthday Card for my Mum.

My attempts to save money... doesn't help when Kurt Gieger have a sale on!

Influence from my collage work and the tattooing imagery I am so in Love with.

Made a similar card a while back for the arrival of my cousin's new baby, however this design has developed to be alot more sleek and feminine, working on thin lines and the little details.

A New Perspective

Front and Back perspectives.

I painted on both the front and the back of the material (ppsheet) to give the audience a range of views when walking around the painting and to create a range of depths on each side.

Painted from a multi-exposure photograph.

I tried to capture the movement and transparancy of the sitter through the use of paint on the clear plastic sheet.

Front and Back perspectives.

I think the back perspective turned out a lot better in this painting than the front because you can see the marker pen underneith the paint, outlining my original drawing, bringing both drawing and painting together. I also see this being exhibited in a way that the viewer may walk around the painting and visualise it from all directions, bringing a three-dimensional element to my work, in turn marrying drawing, painting and scultpure in one work of art.

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.