Chris Ofili goes on to say ““Often in the end a finished painting would be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath, I tried to think of a way of working where all of those layers could coexist without cancelling each other out. All of what comes before is just as important as the statement on top” (Ofili, 2009, cited in Tate, no date) that even though there are different elements, materials, textures and contrasts they all must work and coexist together to create something whole and that works well within the piece itself.
This quote relates to work because during the piece called Lionel I found that I had to update myself to the painting adding different layer on layer and changing my decisions throughout the progress in order to get to the finish piece, these changes were good because it made the piece more vibrant and less messy.
This piece went through a series of changes, with a blue kind of like cloud background done with a sponge it gave off a soft and flow effect but it became difficult for the image done by black dots to come through. I decided to put brush strokes over and within the dots so the image of the lion was more bold and solid it also gave the piece another texture and contrast but I feel that from now on if I was to add a background to a piece, I should dot the image and then do the background around it making it not as messy and crowded but flows to create one polka dot piece.
After looking at tattoo images I chose to just look at images that I like and really focus on the pattern and decorative line and go in to depth on the different kinds of patterns and shaping that can bring forward my work and make it even better.
