PAINT/PRINT Brief: Process To Image Week 3. Day 1. (Select Drawing and Verb Marks to Combine)

PHOTOGRAPH WITHOUT PEOPLE: Artist: MAN RAY – ARUM LILIES: Week 2

1. Selection of Verb(s) from Week 1. BRUSH, CURVE, MIX, MERGE, STREAK, SMEAR, PULL, SLIDE, STRETCH= layers of verbs.

2. Chosen Drawing from Photograph without people Brief: Week 2. Figure 2: ‘Gold Line‘ Arum Lily Abstraction. Drawing: Pastel and Charcoal.

This is one of my favourite images that I have so far produced, because it occurred in a short timeframe, I was totally engaged and it was the first time I had used neutral brown paper. I enjoyed how the pastel sunk into the soft fuzzy texture of the brown paper.

Figure 3. ‘ Gold Line‘ Arum Lily Abstraction. Painting = Verbs from Week 1. BRUSH, CURVE, SWIRL, SWIVEL, MIX, MERGE, PULL, PUSH, STRETCH, SMOOTH, FLOW, MASK, = layers of verbs.

I enjoy painting on canvas, and this is my first canvas activity for this brief. It is my second project of the brief to combine verbs with a selected image. To extend the lily theme, I have chosen my above pastel to paint.

At one point during the painting session I had achieved the correct thin lines and shapes that I had desired. Yet then my lines became thicker and thicker. I started to invent stripes everywhere which I did not fancy. So, I took a break, and will return to alter at another stage.

Extending the Lily theme, and continuing on with the brief’s COMBINATION activity, I next selected two of my images to COMBINE. Choosing verbs to connect I chose Audrey Hepburn’s ‘Sabrina’ filmgrab portrait and Man Ray’s Arum Lilies photograph. I took the pale pink idea of my digital liles and used this same rose, baby pink colour to draw and paint Audrey Hepburn. Verbs: Soft, Brush, Gentle, Dab, Push