Primary Sources

Unedited Primary Sources of family members with different facial expressions

To improve these primary sources I could have used a more diverse age range, i.e. include elderly people; this would then relate to my artists further.

To develop these photographs further I then edited them, this then strengthened the link with both of my artists due to taking the colour out of the photos and only using tone.

Re-creating Colour

In class we learnt about colour blending; from these skills we had the task to create different colours that we could see from an image of a painting by Edward Hopper, and then mark them down on a page in an abstract form using either our fingers or brushes.

On this piece, I used acrylic paint opposed to the oil paint that Hopper used on his painting due to time constraints.

New York Corner (Corner Saloon) 1913, Edward Hopper, oil on canvas, 61 x 73.7 cm 

Transfer Techniques

Cello tape Technique 

To start this technique, you need to cover the front of your printed off image with cello tape and ensure that there is not gaps where the water could possibly get in.

After the image is completely covered, submerge it in water for a few moments until the paper has gone soft.

The final stage involves removing the paper attached to the back of the cello tape with a sponge or your fingers, ensuring that you do not rub the paper too hard because it could remove the ink that has been transferred.

Once this process is completed you are left with the image on the cello tape; the transparency then allows you to experiment with the background of the piece and make the image more of your own. 

To experiment I put my transfers over different style backgrounds, which then brought out, and emphasised different features of the images. 

This photograph shows all of the transferred images that I produced; by doing this it created lots of emphasis on the face, mainly the eyes. It produces many layers, as well as a very daunting and dark image. 

Cellulose Thinner Technique

This technique involves using a chemical (cellulose thinner) to transfer the photocopied image on to another piece of paper.

At first this technique was trial and error, due to not knowing the amount of cellulose thinner to put on to the back of the photocopied image; if you put too little on the image would not fully/properly transfer on to the paper, however if you put too much on the chemical would start to gather on the transferred images and leave marks.

Fabric Paint Transfer

For this type of transfer, you had to cut out dried fabric paint into shapes that your artist conveyed in one of their images.
I chose to cut the dried fabric paint into a shape that represented the shadowing on the nose and eye of a woman in one of my artist's images. I then layered yellow fabric paint over the top to create a contrasting background; after this you have to apply heat to the paint (we used an iron), this then transfers the paint to form an image that is representative of the artist's.