Experimenting with multiple images.
I used the body from one picture and the head from another.
I do not like the outcome of this image so it will not be entered into my degree show but it can coincide with my sketch book work to show that i have experimented in different imagery.
Changing the style between head and body reminded me of research id done on John Currin recently. Where the majority of his women have angelic innocent faces compared to there bodies which are exposed in different positions.
Ceres:- (Roman)- this goddess of agriculture and grains name comes from the indo European word root, her meaning “to grow”. In turn her name has become the origin of our modern word cereal.
Athena was a great success and represented everything i was looking for in my work. I chose a similar image of the same individual and carried out the same process. Again using the same technique. the only change that i made was with the original image. Compared to the rest of my images this particular one is looking directly at the audience enticing them in with her gaze whilst still being dominating and confident.
Aphrodite:- (Greek) – The beautiful goddess of love and fertility. No man could resist Aphrodite when she wore her magic girdle. Her name means foam born or raised from foam as she was birthed from the churning sea.
Using what you’ve got. When my new bed was delivered i was delighted at the coincidence that the cardboard was the same size as my canvases that i had made and spent money on. Continuing with 2nd sourced imagery of muscular women i chose this particular picture because of the black back ground and wanted to rectify my original mistake with my 1st canvas. I sketched out the basic outline of the woman in pencil then added the black acrylic to give the bold background merging into the woman. Then added the detail of the tone with grey and white using flickers of motion brush strokes to keep the flow of delicacy within the paint emphasizing the delicacy still retained within the female despite her muscular form.
Athena:- (Greek)- Goddess of war and wisdom and domestic crafts. Plato believed her name means “mind of God” whilst others suggest it comes from an ancient word meaning “sharp”. Both these points to Athena’s great intellectual ability to see the true nature of a situation and to develop successful strategies.
Working on cardboard is an easy and cheep source of material. This small scale painting still enforces you to acknowledge this muscular women within a box. Almost like your paring through a window
