Project 2 Development
My inititial attempts at 10cm Edit & Englarge sketches
After a review with my tutor Sarah Pirrie we decided the ‘Rage out-of-doors’ was not translating to rage and to redo the ten thumbnail sketches. Below is the result of that, completing the bottom 11 first then considering if I could use a facial expression of rage, discarding that thought as too overt/cliché.
I selected the thumbnail third from the right - wanting to include the box itself in the composition as a link to the ‘out-of-doors’ and showing that explosive nature of rage that will not be confined.
The below are four iterations of that thumbnail at 10x10cm with differing ‘scribbles’ in charcoal and consideration to what the background should be, first column with the hard charcoal, second with soft willow charcoal.
I feel the bottom right is the most successful in both the mark making and background tonality and texture - having a darker center works well to make the entire composition feel darker and grittier to fit with the anger theme. The elongated box into a rectangle is also more fitting of the ‘doors’ reference. I will do another similar ‘scribble’ for the final scan/input without the heavy double weight line on the left hand side.
I think for the final risograph composition I will do several of these boxes, and will play with enlarging the ‘scribble’ and using it as line work at high transparency in the background. The textured background may need to be made with a brush in Illustrator.
Sarah suggested artist Ann Hamilton as someone that uses moments of tension particularly well in her figurative work. These images below are from a commissioned series of portraits for the Dell Medical School. The series illuminates particular links between touch and vision, contact and caring. I think these also have a sense of stillness to them.
I took some portraits of myself when pregnant that I think work well with Sélélé, the below is a first exploration of combining this portrait with my favoured composition in a format that will scale up to A3 for the final risograph composition.
It has become imbued with a sense of waiting and expectation within the silence. I feel it to be a successful composition but will play with it further when taken into the digital space.