NONNA MAURA - 27.02.2014.

I had scanned in some old photographs of my grandmother and wanted to see what I could make by experimenting with adding colour to specific sections. I began by highlighting any section with the colour pink and played around with the shape I used, if any, and also adding  text from a scan of my grandmother's wedding certificate, I particularly like the 6th image down. I decided to hid her face with the pink circle as just a test of colour/shape placement but it also ties in with her orphan background and having a loss of identity. I'm going to try highlighting different areas of my photographs to draw the viewer to the part I'd like them to focus on. 

EXPERIMENTATION - 23.02.2014.

I made this really quickly when I didn't have a lot of time but I'm pleased with how it came out! I've been concentrating on making a lot of imagery that will then slot into certain smaller themes that will link with the work. This was in relation to walking round Rome and is a close up of a photo I had taken of a building. I then layered a film of colour to the top section as well as creating the celestial light spots by taking sun reflections from a photo I'd taken of the sea. Overall I wanted to create an image that reflected a happy, relaxed mood that allows the viewer to feel the same. I'd like to see what this would like printed out on a bigger scale. 

EXPERIMENTATION - 23.02.2014.

I enjoyed working with the close up image I'd made of the statue and wanted to see what I could create with just using that. I applied the layering technique with the block of colour over the top and played around with the saturation, density and contrast to see what would happen. Some of the effects didn't work out as well as I thought they would, for example the 4th and 6th down, but I've been finding it useful to just crop into a particular section of a photograph to concentrate on creating a balance between the textures and colours used. It would be interesting to see what I could create when layering two different cropped sections together. 

EXPERIMENTATION - 23.02.2014.

These are just some quick experiments I made by playing around with the scale and placement of images. I'm really into using a solid block of colour and then applying it a section of the image and then testing out different opacities to let the other photos show through. I'd like to test this out on other imagery to see how it works out. 

EXPERIMENTATION - 23.02.2014.

Apologies for the lack of posts in relation to my own work but I have found these past 2 weeks extremely hard in creating work and I think that is partly due to having so many thoughts and ideas for this project. In one of my earlier crits I was told to create mini 'themes' to then create work for so that my images had more meaning and would be easily read by other people. I have created mini themes but they are more suited around the culture of Italy and so I will only be able to respond to those after I get back from Italy in April. So until then I will be focusing on creating images that relate to specific memories of some of my favourite places whether they are monuments, buildings, beaches or villages I've visited. Since this is such a personal project I feel a bit overwhelmed with everything that I could focus on and by slowly narrowing thoughts down things are getting clearer. 

I had a look back at my previous collages which I am still very happy with but I wanted to see how else I could play about with colour, shape and composition. I've been enjoying being more abstract with my choice of placement and also the sizes of images as well. I want to try to not default to placing images straight in the middle, unless it works for the better, and also how colour doesn't have to be contained to certain areas. I think these two images worked well as a step forwards with my work but I can still see points for development. I'd like to see what they'd look like if I filled the entire page with an image and then worked over the top with colour or cropping into particular bits to then work with.

JACOB HOLDT: 20.02.2014.

SIREN CITY: 20.02.2014.