University Campus Suffolk

Recently I had a photoshoot with one of my old friends from high school Emily and I wanted to capture a balance of high contrast and brightness to achieve that creepy element that Boltanski has in his work. The image has been added using high contrast and high brightness. I think on their own the images our quite powerful and I felt that I did not need to paint from them. But when I printed out the images on placed them on my wall next to my painting in my space it does not seem to fit well together, so I decided to paint from the photographs. I applied the paint on straight away and the I am happy with the finished result. At this point I feel I need to add more to my paintings using realism and working with texture.