EVALUATION

 

 

 

 

 

 

Evaluation

This mural is about “My Self” it should contain the things that represent me. I looked at Richard Hamilton’s work. He made pop art collages. The images were all in one room. Personally I adore vintage furniture, so I cut out a vintage wooden room from the magazine. I then added objects that represent me e.g. light bulbs, painted nails, motor bike, flowers, jewelry, model and also a dog. The images are all taken out from magazines. I made 2 collages, which I combined them both to make the final collage design. I then searched up an artist called Michael Craig Martin (Contemporary conceptual artist).the main technique that he used was with bright colours and no tones, which it gave me an idea on the collage.

I decided to use the colour wheel to help me decide where to put warm and cool colour.i do not want the colours to be realistic as in I don’t want the Sofa to be the boring old brown colour,I want it to be exaggerated. This is because I am an optimist like things to be all colourful and happy.

I also blended some objects to give a sense of perspective e.g. human’s skin or the tunnel.

The font design that I made was based on Si Scott. I made the font to be quite cursive, because personally cursive fonts represents the flow of water like the flow of love. I was going to make the font in red because it would create a contrast, but when I learnt about Kara walker I decided to make it black and white (negative + positive points).I also extended the ascenders and descenders or else it would look too small for the mural.

Techniques

I do not blend the paint by brush I usually use my middle or the index finger to blend the paint, this is because when I blend paint with brush I cannot feel the paint directly and when I blend it’s a habit that I have got to feel the paint and the movements as I blend.

 I also use sponges to blend or to spread large surfaces. The sponge usually gives a rough effect.

I also outline some of the images by black permanent pen/paint. I did not outline every image because some of the image should not look flat or in one dimension.

As I said earlier that the technique I use to pick the colours is based on the colour wheel and my personality. As u can see; the colours are mostly cool and soft e.g. sky blue, soft lilac, cream, turquoise etc.

The paint I used was mostly poster colour. This is because if for some reason I dropped paint on the mural I could wait for it to dry, dip some water and rub it in circles and the unwanted paint would disappear. I mixed all the colours. It was not squeezed out straight from the tube. This would make your work stand out if it was being presented with other people’s work.

For the composition, the focal point should be the women with black glasses. This is because I want to look at it and make me look at the work in circles instead of out of the board. To make the women with glasses to be the focal point she must be somewhere near the middle, dominant colours or something near her should make her stand out. This concludes to why I put the tunnel there.

 

What would I do differently?

I would definitely blend the paint more between my board and my partner’s board. The thing is; it is really hard to decide how to blend or what colour to blend together because my colours are really bright, but my partner’s colours are dark (‘forest like’), but board actually shows that people could have a dark side and a good side.

What I like about this?

I am happy of the outcome because it doesn’t look too crowded or deserted. It looks like everything is joined together. The most important thing is that it actually represents me. It represents the happy me.

 

What I dislike about this?

I don’t really like the fact that the lady was being covered, because all the good details are covered up. If I would change anything it would be the lady and also the font (my name) should be a little bigger to should it out that THIS IS ME.