Thursday, 12 February 2015

Exquisite Corpse- Final Outcome.

To create my final outcome I first went through a series of development stages to select which techniques and processes work best to produce my piece. I was inspired by both historical and contemporary artists, some of which were multi disciplinary. These artists were; Christina Mrozik, Caitlin Hackett, Michael Cheval, Arthur Rackham, Ozabu and Jeremy Hush. These artists are all unique in their style but all produce illustration based pieces, some of which uses the disciplines I wanted to use in my own piece and some inspired me to use similar imagery and styles I wanted to use. 
I ŵas asked to produce a multi disciplinary outcome, I wanted to incorporate my illustrative style and decided to combine drawing with painting. 
I developed my outcome from my own photographs and observational drawings, I first experimented with the different techniques to create my piece, once I happy I then started pencilling in the piece onto a piece of watercolour paper. This watercolour paper was taped into a wooden board to make it sturdy and to avoid creasing. The tape would also allow me to create a smooth and crisp boarder. I first photocopied one of my own drawings and made this larger, I then traced this image as well as other imagery onto an A2 piece of tracing paper.
I then back traced this onto my watercolour paper as well as free hand drawing onto the paper itself to fill the space as best as possible. 
Once I had finished drawing in the basic image I then began to add watercolour to the background with added salt to distort the paint, this gave a blotchy looking background. Once the watercolour had dried out I then brushed away the salt to reveal the blotched background. I then started to pencil in the birch trees in the background using a mechanical pencil and a blending stick. 
Once I had finished the background and pencilled trees I then started working on the inked body (horse section) I used different marks to manipulate the fur of the animal and concentrated marks to show the tone of the piece. The marks I created allowed me to give an illusion of the wounds I had created. I used small marks to create the inked piece so they would be very subtly when worked into with watercolour. I also started adding watercolour to the meadow using a watercolour wet in wet technique with added salt as well as using watercolour to paint the flowers in the foreground.
Like my crevices watercolour and salt work, once dry I brushed away the salt to reveal the effect. Now that the watercolour was dry I started finishing the ink work on the horses body and also started to distort and pencil in the subjects face and torso. These distortions werein the style if both artists Christina Mrozik and Caitlin hackett to give the piece the gruesome feel I was looking for. I also tried to mimic Ozabus pencil techniques to create a delicate looking piece and natural looking hair.
I also used fine pencil marks to manipulate the subjects hair. 
Once the pencil work was finished I moved onto adding colour to the horses body. Like my ink work I used small marks with a small paintbrush in a range of grey and brown tines to manipulate the fur without adding too much detail this was concentrated in areas to add tone giving the illusion of a more realistic and three dimensional figure. I left out the wounded areas so I could work into them last making them appear more realistic. 
Using a very fine paintbrush and watercolour paint I then started adding in the wounded areas and bees nest in the style of artists Jeremy Hush. I used a small paint brush to allow to create very detailed areas. 
I wanted to add further definition to the flowers in the foreground to bring them forward slightly and make them more vibrant. To do this I worked into them further using prismacolor coloured pencils. I used these to show the detail in the petals and add further colour. 
Finally I use the back into the piece and touched up any unfinished areas and used the fine tipped brush to fill in all the gaps left by the watercolour as well as adding further bees to the meadow, body and flowers. 
I slowly peeled away the tape yo reveal the finished piece and crisp boarder. 














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