I liked these photgraphs as they were but I felt that they had not tackled the issues I had focused my dissertation on, the use of animal materials within contemporary art. Also the photographs were just of a fox hunt, they didnt mean anything, until i thought about the idea of the red. symbolic of blood, I linked that with animal materials, and thought i could use blood as a paint within the pieces. animal blood however , does stain, but does not give an eye catching effect, also on a gloss photographs the blood does not take to them.
This brought me back to my dissertation.. do animal materials have to be used to make the point ? or is the idea alone enough? i deceided to use red paint as my blood instead. I htought if i gained the right tone of red to make it believeable that it was blood, perhaps i could say it is real blood, would this make it shock art , even if actually it isnt?
I then started to think about first hand images that I had taken when on a fox hunt. the horses and the hounds are representative alone, but the colour red I felt was most representative, or atleast the red coat. so I worked with my photographs to highlight the red coat within the sport.
I found this image from an artists blog months ago, and found it interesting, stupidly I didnt take note of the artist, but I still liked the different way of personalising the fox and it resulting in an almost British symbol.
I wanted to have a go, but without using the fix I found it took away the British symbolism slightly, although the photo I used was my own, and the humans are wearing shooting attire, the fox makes the image effective, not the cat.
Finally, this month I have started to create some work relative to the fox, aswell as my colour work.
I was still stumped as to what I wanted to say with my work, and how to involve the animal materials within my wrk, so I wanted to just throw some ideas around with drawings and paintings . At first I looked briefly at some anatomy of the fox to give me a better understanding just how to draw and paint.
