This is probably my favourite page. I like these samples and lot more and I think they work well with representing memories and working with layers at the same time. I used materials to layer on all of these photo's that related to the times they were taken. The first one I ripped up parts of a paper bag that I got that same week. I positioned it around the main focus of the picture, as I have done with all the pictures on this page. The top right one is a picture of my friends on the train and on top of that I ripped up the train ticket that I bought on that same train and layered those pieces on top of the picture around my friends. The bottom left one was taken on Halloween and this is my favourite piece because I used sweet wrappers to layer on top. This, and the train ticket piece are my favourites because they also have the most texture to them and are more 3D than the others. The bottom right photo was taken on the night of a day we went to a theme park and took our own food in sandwich bags and so I trapped this photo in between  two pieces of plastic to make it seem as thought the picture is now the sandwich and reminds me of that day. I like all these piece because they mix both the memorabilia and the photo's together in the same place and closely.

I found some beads at home and wanted to incorporate these into my work somehow but I didn't want the to be barely seen and so instead of trapping them in between layers of fabric I just decided to sew them on to a piece of fabric instead. I liked that you could see them and I'm thinking about doing some more with beads sewn on top of the fabric. The next piece down I put in a piece of paper just to secure it because I didn't want to sew this piece down being as it's more of a pocket and I thought you could take things out and replace them with other things but then I realised that it wouldn't go with my theme of memories. You can't swap and replace memories so I don't think I'll be using this idea of a pocket again. I liked using bead though so I went an bought some alphabet beads and sown them to some fabric spelling out the word 'sun' but instead of just leaving it, I decided to put a layer of fabric over it and sew them together to trap the word. I like the idea of trapping words.
Below I decided to use words some more but going more with Richter's way of working with paint over photo's. I used words that were relevant to the time the photo's were taken. I used green and purple on the top photo because of the frog relating to nature and the purple because it was night time and the colour reminds me of one of the friends I was with. The bottom picture I also painted a smiley face as well as painting words. The smiley, I think, expresses my happiness and contentment at that time more that words could. I like this idea but I wonder if it was a little too cartoony and so I don't know if I'll use it again.

The two photo's on this page were taken on the same day on a weekend holiday at the beach. I used bright, happy colours on these photo's and used a paintbrush to make swirly lines. I decided to be spontaneous and remember how I was feeling at that particular time and let the paintbrush describe my emotions through the patterns I created. I used purple on the photo on the right because it's a colour people associate with luxury and riches. I used it because the picture shows a lot of tickets you get in arcades which you can trade in for prizes and me and my friend who won these felt rich because we were able to trade them in for a lot of prizes. I used the orange in  bold stripes on the picture on the left to bring attention to the name 'Jodz' and painted the number 4 bigger and outlined it as I was 4th on the leader board and I was proud so this represents the big achievement it was for me personally. The sample I made trapped one of the tickets we had won. I chose black material and I think that worked very well being as the ticket was yellow and bright and you could still see through the fabric. I used yellow and orange thread because those colours and the way I stitched them reminded me of the arcades and the flashing orange and yellow lights there. I am please with this particular piece and page.

The first picture at the top, Richter's piece of a snowy landscape came to mind and instantly inspired me and I didn't want to cover too much of this photo with paint and small dots seemed appropriate as they also represented the snow falling on that particular day. I used blue instead of red like in Richter's work because blue is a cold colour; relating back to the weather and feel on that day. I also thought red would be too harsh and would send out a darker vibe. In the second photo down I wanted to capture the weather just as I felt I did with the photo above and so I used a paintbrush as this was also a nice relaxing but hot day which is why I used yellows and oranges, which are warm colours. I did small strokes around the boy to represent how it was so hot you couldn't exert yourself too much. The small wavy lines coming up from the bottom of the picture represent the heat and how on a hot days sometimes you can see the heat on the road in steam.
At the bottom of the page I was inspired my Susie Freeman's work but here, instead of layering the train tickets used in between fabric, I just layered the fabric on top and sewed it onto the tickets themselves. I liked this idea and after using two different fabrics I wouldn't use the red one if I needed to see detail on whatever it was trapping.

This is my first page of Developments where I tried out doing a couple of piece in the style of Gerhard Richter. I started out with a head shot and painted over it like he did, just for a little practice. I used dark colours because I don't like the picture and I thought these might show negative emotions. I also used a pallet knife to show these emotions because you get less control, same as the person in the photo had little control over the photo taken. The second photo I used was of a landscape from when I went on holiday once. I used the blue wavy lines to portray the calm, happy feeling I had there looking at the clear blue skies and I used a paintbrush for this because it would flow better than a pallet knife. The green was to represent the trees with their spikey branches. I also did this with a paintbrush because I was still calm and peaceful looking at these trees and this picture makes me feel calm and happy. I wanted the paint to show this.

The last artist included in the question and who I looked at was Catherine McIntyre who layers photo's on top of each other. Although I thought it was kind of interesting, I didn't really like her work and I would prefer doing something a little more creative with my project as a lot of Catherine's work was done through Photoshop on a computer.

The second artist I looked at which was mentioned in the question was Susie Freeman who sews little things, such as pills inbetween layers of fabric. I thought this would be a great idea and wanted to try sewing instead of just painting so on this page I did a couple of samples and then sewed them on to the paper. I rather enjoyed doing this too.

The first artist given in the question was Gerhard Richter. I liked his work of painting on top of landscapes and portraits and though it was an interesting approach; mixing photography and art. I tried out a couple of copies of his work using my own photographs in the second picture down on the right and the piece in the bottom right corner. I rather enjoyed doing that. I used a pallet knife and acrylic paint to get the desired effect like Richter's work.

For my final exam piece we got a few questions and topics to choose from. I chose 'layers' as I thought it would interesting and I could be creative with this question. I also liked the artists named with this question.

For my final piece I decided to combine the 2nd and third photo of mine and do this is in the style of Tim Burton and Andre Salgado combined. I used Burton's style for the background and the striped pattern of the shirt, the headband and the eyes, nose and mouth. I used Salgado's style when painting the face and hair and for these parts I used acrylic paint, whereas I used watercolour paints for the others. If I was going to do this again, I'd probably maybe switch the types of paint around and see if that would have worked beforehand. I didn't use any other media because I didn't feel as though they would have worked as well as the paint has done.

On this page I used coloured pencils for the top piece and watercolours for the bottom. I used bright watercolours for the picture in the bottom left, as it's the kind of colours Burton would use. I like both of these pieces as I think they resemble Burton's work. I think perhaps the bottom piece on the top photo maybe strays a little too far from the original photo.
On the bottom page I decided again to combine both artists in one piece and here I experimented with crayons for a part of it. I wouldn't use crayons again as they don't work very well for either my artists style. They don't give enough coverage needed. The background I did in watercolour and in stripes, both from Burton's work, and over the top of the crayon portrait also done in the style of Tim Burton I use acrylics to paint small strokes of paint. I used a paintbrush for this to make the piece flat unlike Salgado's work but like Burton's even though the acrylic paint idea was inspired by Salgado.

For this I tried mixing both artists styles together in one piece and I think it turned out rather well. I used Burton's patterns for the background and I was inspired by the way his facial features are a big part of his work and so incorporated those in this piece. I used all acrylic paint in this piece, which was a trait from Salgado's work. I also did the face and hair in Salgado's style with the short strokes and using a pallet knife. I really like how nicely these two styles came together as I really didn't expect it to work as well as it did. I think I perhaps should have put a background wash down on the face first as there are some white gaps left around the eyes and mouth.

 I really enjoyed working with this image and I really like the pencil drawing in on the first page. I was inspired by 'Weird Girl' from Tim Burton's Frankenweenie. I liked how shadow was used in this too and incorporated that into my own work. If I was going to make this even more like Burton's work, I would have made the face a lot sharper and shorter.
On the second page my work was inspired by Salgado's work, particularly the piece shown on the his first artist page in the bottom left corner. I liked how he seemed to be so spontaneous and just went crazy with the paint on that piece. It inspired me to go a little crazy and ended up painting over the majority of the face which I'd previously painted underneath. It took a while as I used a pallet knife and especially didn't want the paint to smudge on this piece so had to wait until each colour had dried before starting another incase they smudged too much. I do really like this piece though and thought the use of just 3-4 simple colours worked perfectly on a plain black background.

 

For my first page of developments I chose this picture I took of a friend because she was wearing sunglasses and I thought it would be interesting being as neither of my artists have any work with portraits wearing sunglasses. On the first page I did a sketch in pencil which was inspired by Tim Burton but after deciding it didn't have enough depth and feeling like it lacked something, I repeated it on the next page but in biro. I still felt like something was missing but I think maybe it was because of the sunglasses and in Tim Burton's work the eyes stand out and here you can't see them. On the second page, for the piece inspired by Andrew Salgado I used a paintbrush and again I felt like it lacked definition and so I think I'll use the pallet knife from now on for pieces with traits of Salgado's work.

I chose Andrew Salgado because he is such a different artist to Tim Burton. He uses different media's and his work is much more realistic whereas Burton's is very fantasy. I liked Salgado's use of paint in his work, the fact that it seems very spontaneous and textured. I experimented doing this with a paintbrush and then a pallet knife afterwards. I really liked  the thick paint and the texture the pallet knife gave me although the paint took a long time to dry when I used it.

For my artist research pages on Tim Burton, I used mainly pencil, watercolour paint and biro for my work as these seem to be popular materials for Burton to work in. In Burton's moving image work, he uses lots of patterns and so I used this on my first artists sheet (top left) and added a couple of characters from his work which he has sketched before. I also love how carefree Burton's work is and I think you can see this through his work and my copies on the next 2 pages.

For my second art project I decided to look and portraiture and for my first artist I chose Tim Burton because although he is a film director he also does and lot of art work and often sketches for his characters. I chose him because I like his style and the cartoon drawings, I think his work is diverse and very interesting. For my second artist I chose Andrew Salgado because he uses a range of different materials and I found his work quite captivating. I thought it would be fun working with these 2 artists as both their styles are very unique.

For my final piece I decided to use Christopher Wool as my biggest inspiration and use most of the traits he uses in his work for my piece. So as I used roses earlier in my work I decided to use them as my background.

Over that I used acrylic paints to paint think lines over the majority of the canvas but leaving it so you could see the edges of the roses.
Then like Christopher Wool's work I decided to put something across the middle of my canvas and sort of separating the white paint. I decided to use leaves for this and painting them all black. I then added another small rose in the top right corner so it didn't look too bare.

I decided not to use the dead flower in my work as I though it would be too fiddly and not very effective. However, I do think I could have added more aspects of Philip Taaffe's work though.

The experiments done on this page were all done using oil pastels over different pieces of paper (newspaper, standard, tissue paper, grease proof paper). I place the piece of paper over the rose piece I did in raffia and then used different pastels to shade over the top and it took the shape of a rose on the paper.

This dead flower I thought was really interesting in it's shape. The piece in the bottom left corner I just did with pencil, making it darker towards to middle but I do think it's kind of boring. The piece in the top right was done using watercolours as I thought they'd flow better than acrylics and blend into eachother. The piece in the bottom right I also used watercolours for but instead of using a brush, I used a straw to blow the paint out from the middle. I like how it all goes different ways and still looks spiky like the plant itself.