The coloured background really made the piece vibrant and decorative similar to that of Chris Ofili, the colours weren’t overpowering and blended well together but it made it difficult to see the image in which the holes had made and the holes weren’t quite visible as I thought they would be so I decided to add the LED lights to the piece, at first I was worried that it may be too much with the fluorescent paint in the background but it worked really well couponing both the dark and light contrast giving my work more meaning and expressing not only a story but showing true emotion as well. Whilst making this piece I found that it was more effective and more beautiful to have the LED lights come through the holes then them being stuck to the back of the canvas, this produce some problems because having them on the back of the canvas you could see the pencil drawing and I didn’t want to see that coming through when the piece was lit so I would rub out the pencil and re-punch the holes which took effort and time.
After much thought I chose to put them through the holes which made it light up more and the image stand out against the plain paper and I didn’t have to rub out the pencil which was a time saver. I hope to produce a much larger piece using the fluorescent, colourful background to really bring the piece forward instead of having the plain, white paper and add another element by putting in simple white Christmas lights to give effect of texture and fun to the work as well as not over crowd and confuse the viewer by making it flow as a whole piece.
