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.