September, 2010
BELLSDARK


The Assignment was to:
Bring an object small enough to fit in palm of hand to class. Jon brought a silver bell. Then sketch out the object as many times as possible in contour, big, small etc., follow this by cutting the sketch in eight equal pieces and rearrange them, any way desired. Next, transfer the new image to 22x30 paper to form an abstract. Some of the bells looked like lamps and became light sources in the picture.


This is a project for surface research. The assignment was to take multiple pictures of a place or an object of our choice and collage them together. After this step, we were told to paint the collage in acrylics. The place I chose is under a bridge leaving richmond, which supports the foot bridge to belle isle. I didn't want the composition to be a replication of the actual scene, but I wanted the viewer to be able to know that they were looking at the underside of a bridge.

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My initial plan was to build textures and different levels off of the panel with the mache and paint on top of the mache. However, as I was testing this out, the paper folded over like fabric. This gave me the idea to make the piece above. I applied a layer of mache, and then added the folding fabric-esque paper on top of it. I charcoaled the edges and inside the folds to accentuate them.