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.