This week my focus was to plan my final outcome, so I am ready to start it next week. I began by making a final composition collage on cardboard, incorporating my favourite elements from my previous collages. I painted back into it to work out where I could place abstracted elements.
^ My collage composition
^ Final collage composition
In a tutor review, Sue suggested I play with composition to encourage the viewer to move around the painting. I sketched out some ideas and played with the scale of different elements and tried to add depth to the landscape. I decided to move the house further back and add more dens in the woods. This will add more interesting elements and will present my concept of hiding being timeless and ubiquitous. I also looked at Kitaj's paintings as he focuses on atrocities of the war and has busy compositions.
^ Composition sketches
^ 'Cecil Court, London W.C.2. (The Refugees) (1983-4), R.B. Kitaj
I moved onto small boards to develop my painting and started using a muted colour palette to give an ominous feel. I want the piece to look like a sinister version of hide-and-seek, so I added a boy looking straight ahead. In another tutor review, it was suggested that this stops the viewer from moving around the painting so the boy should be turned or not included. I also added a boy in the trees as a more hidden element for the viewer to find. I looked at Hernan Bas' work and would like to use similar vibrant colours and interesting textures in my outcome.
^ My first outcome plan
^ 'The Hero Centaur' (2005), Hernan Bas
I looked at Marius Bercea's work and became interested in his abstracted backgrounds. I decided to experiment with the ways I applied paint and liked the way it looked when I dripped it or applied it with cardboard. I incorporated these techniques into my second board and used more playful colours to link to the hide-and-seek idea.
^ Paint experiments
^ Background for second outcome plan
^ My second outcome plan
^ 'Hotel of Nowhere' (2016), Marius Bercea
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