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.