Tuesday, 21 April 2015

EXPERIMENTATION STAGE: ARTIST RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT OF IDEA

Acrylic paint experiments



                                                             Digital paint experiment

After researching artists like Gerhard Richter and William Klein, I decided that the first stage of my experimentation process will be to try painting over some of the photographs I collected. I used acrylic paint in various colours that I thought went well with the photos, such as green, red, pink, yellow and blue. I started by experimenting with different ways of layering the paint onto the paper, such as stipling the brush, sweeping the brush and using paper to apply the paint and add texture. I then experimented with painting over the photographs digitally in the same fashion as my previous experiment. I used overlays and colour and played with the opacity to get the right feel. I think the digitial versions came out much better and communicated the overall theme of the photos better than the paint. The paint versions could be improved next time I attempt to use the same technique possibly by using different materials and printing the photographs on different paper.


After the paint experiment I decided to research some more artists to help inspire me to develop my idea, as I felt the movement and colour theme wasn't going to lead anywhere particularly interesting or original. I started to look into mixed media artwork and found some interesting pieces by Eugina Loli and Maurizio Anzeri. I decided to research Anzeri's work as I love the emotion his artwork expresses, and it inspired me to move my idea forward into something much more interesting.
After doing some more research, I had a tutorial with one of the fashion tutors and we discussed the direction that my work was going in and I decided that my work would be going down the direction of mixed media photography. We then talked about how I could go about it to keep in with my theme, and we discussed capturing a feeling and emotion through texture and colour. He asked me a question that got me thinking and made me feel inspired to move my project forward in this direction:
'If I was blind and I asked you to describe an emotion to me through texture, what would it feel like?' 

I really like this idea of expression through feeling, which I think would make my fashion photography so much more three-dimensional instead of just a photograph. I decided to take my project down this route of mixed media and incorporating 3D relief and texture within my photography work. From this tutorial and slight change of direction I created my final concept board and started to plan my experiments with materials which will last for two weeks.


My final concept board




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