The title of the exam was 'Discord' and I decided to look at discord between Man and Nature, but more specifically, in the sky. So I compared human flight machines...planes...and natural flight machines...birds. Simples.
Cue a trip to the Science Museum: that massive hall where there's millions of planes and cars and weird stuff. And then to the Natural History Museum to take pictures of creepy stuffed birds. And then I combined the two together to create a kind of mechanical bird, as you can see here. It is an oil painting on canvas, but I stuck little tiny bolts around the edge of the 'metal plating' and I went mad in Hobbycraft choosing feathers to stick on as well. It makes it more interesting to have real stuff on the painting so I always try and add something 3D.
The background is very influenced by Picasso, as is most of my stuff, really. I loveee cubism because of the bright bold colours matched with dark dark black and because it is so fun to make curved rounded shapes more interesting my breaking them up with lines. Very geek and very paintbrush!
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