I am going to discuss an idea I had at the start of the year. After seeing the chapmans insult to injury collection. I had been inspired by the clown type faces they had added onto the people. I liked how the faces where slightly disturbing and out of place, playing on fears of people while also being immature and childlike. From seeing this I had decided to take an image of a girl wearing a dress. This dress would be similar to one that is expected from an angel. I had brought this dress cheap, the only problem was that it was red but I wanted it to be white. This problem was resolved when I had decided to do the drawings as line drawing which I would colour later on instead of using a photograph. As seen in the first image I had taken the image, and then drew some basic wings. these had been placed onto the photograph of the girl using photoshop, something which i dislike using as I get easily confused with the program compared to others! Using this image, I was then able to create two different images from this, one which was in black and white with the face not appearing in the picture and one which was in only black or white, which I had decided to use as a stencil, which will be discussed later on in this blog.
The picture of the angel without the face was planned on being used as part of a series. I wanted to create seven of these as etchings which would be painted and inked over at a later time. The plan here was to change the faces, having the face represent a part of the story, a face for fire, a face for dried up earth, a face for dead sea creatures and so on. I wanted to create seven in order showing that there was an angel assigned to commit each individual deed.
This was an idea I had about half a year ago and ever got around to actually creating, the template has been etched out and is ready to print and colour, however I had not developed the faces due to having a dissertation to write at the time which distracted me from my work. I wish I had created this series a long time ago as I am fascinated in how it would have turned out. This is a series I plan on coming back to within the next few weeks as I was so close to finishing it. The problem here is that I have started so many diffeent things only to start something else half way through and loose interest in what I had previously created.
