While I was at Spike Island I saw a painting that I didn't really like and didn't really understand what it was about. The thing that caught my eye about it was how it had been displayed...
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| Isabelle Southwood- Homer Wake Up You're Alive |
It had been painted strait onto the wall and wasn't confined by traditional borders, I like this idea of things going beyond their traditional frame. I thought that this could be a good photo, rather than just have a photo in a frame or just have the photo stop at the edges of the print I wanted to carry on the photo by maybe drawing it. My first thought was to have a black and white photo of tree silhouettes after all of their leaves had fallen off and continue the drawing on a pavement in charcoal and chalk...
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| This is a quick concept drawing I did thinking about continuing the photo by drawing the things that are no longer in the frame, which would be the branches. I would want to draw it on concrete flooring or something similar so I could show the opposites of nature (the trees) and man made flooring and then combine them. |
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| This was another idea I had, take a photo of an eye, but have it cropped so it was quite long rather than a regular rectangle and draw just the colours of the iris ( maybe draw the other colours around it, this will have to be something I decided while doing it to see if it would look better) but draw them in soft pastel, this is so I can make a clear contrast between the strong, bold, strict colours of the photo and the soft, blended wild colours of the soft pastel. |
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| This is my visual response. When cropping the photo I had to crop it more than I thought to have the right amount of eye in the photograph on show. The printer than I used to print off the photo of the eye always prints things out slightly faded so I chose to use this printer instead of one that has strong colours because I wanted to make the soft pastel almost match the colours of the ink which now that I have done I am really happy with. When drawing the continuation of the eye I really didn't want to just draw the basic circle of the eye, I wanted to carry it on further, the outcome of the drawing almost looks as if the ink had bled out like when you put water on ink and it runs which I really like. I tired hard to keep the drawing matching the colours and pattern of the iris which I think I have achieved quite well. In the concept idea above I question whether or not to have the other colours like the skin included in the drawing, after only doing the blue I think that it looks better how it is, having the skin colour as well would of taken too much attention away from the eye. |
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