Week 16-17

Week 16 – 17

16^th November – 27^th November

Over the last two weeks I have been developing new methods of drawing, at first I started experimenting with wire as I would really like to do some sculptures and manipulate the metal. I started to draw some of the hair drawings in wire and even a square for the grid of faces.

I did however find inspiration in a unexpected place as I keep seeing faces in unfamiliar places. I have started drawing shapes and faces in hair as I keep seeing them in the shower and they come out really nice. I have since developed some of the pictures into drawings.  I have used a range of different mediums just to experiment with them all, I have used pens, ink, bleach and brusho paints as they have really bright colours. The drawing I developed can either be ethereal or sinister and I like that it has a character to it. I am thinking of developing all of my hair drawings into characters as that’s how I visualize them.

I have been researching it and it’s called Pareidolia, seeing face is unusual places, where your mind sees familiar patterns and determines them where there actually are none.

Week 15

Week 15

9^th November – 13^th November

This week I have been further developing my faceless faces but now I have been going back into them and thickening out the lines and giving them numbers linking this idea up to the beginning of the project when I was trying to give the girls in my studio a number like myself. If you take away the surrounding information then the narrative changes and these girls could be anyone. They could be prisoners, students, patients or lottery winners. All you have is a face and a number, which is why I wanted to give the faceless drawings numbers as it doesn’t matter who they are they are just people but once I gave them faces and expressions in different colours they completely change as they have expressions and more of a personality. I wanted to distort them further so I used a Kaleidoscope so segment the drawings, as I like the effect it gives. I have also been experimenting with layering images up to achieve a repeat pattern, I have done this on tracing paper so thy can be moved and manipulated.

Week 14

Week 14

2^nd November – 6^th November

I haven’t started any of the live brief as I am doing a self initiated brief, but this week I have developed an image from the last colour progression drawing I did a few weeks ago. I printed the drawing out and mirrored them. I then saw a face within the drawing and wanted to extract it, as it was a eerie face that wasn’t supposed to be there. I can definitely use it to layer up on sheer fabrics or acetate.  I did visualization on a top for an idea of what it could look like as a pattern on a garment as this could reach a completely different audience compared to the gallery audience I was aiming for earlier on in the project.