Concept Choice

In class we looked at artist models.

-Winston Smith
-The Dead Kennedys

These models stood out as interesting to me as they were efective but something I hadn't really experimented with before, I was more familiar with a minimalist style of work so I decided to explore these. I also like the contrast of all the different elements from obviously completely different sources being able to tell a story cohesively in one collage. 

I decided to try this combination because I thought the conyrast was interesting in both the contents and colours of the images. Also because the family resembles mine well. I continued to exeriment with creating a room by using two different images I had taken from locations where my fmaily and I have memories. I began to try to incorporate lots of little images that were of significance to me and my family.

however as I was making this I decided that it looked too cluttered-the balance was off and there was little visual flow.

In this image I tried to experiment with creating more blank space so that there was less competition in the image. I was contemplating what would be relevant for my family to be sitting around and I came up with the concept of a TV, as technology is a big thing in my home. 

this also added another level of contrast with the traditional family image with the modern technology-I wanted to create this idea of the modern day family. 

I really liked the idea of how this contrast between modern and traditional depicted my family and who I am as a person. So I explored this idea further-I found realism to me seemed more traditional and more cartoon/pop art-esque things more modern. 

I came across these images that I thought would be interesting to experiment and explore this idea with.

I Liek the contrast between drawing and photo and visually I  felt as though my piece had too many photos that they got lot in each other. So i heightened the contast between the forrestry and and black and white image. Then used the flow of the waterfall to create a pool on the tv screen table.

I used red as it is opposite to green on the colour wheel and also is symbolic of love and blood which is relevant to my family. This symbolises how our environment and external influences shape who we are as people- it being on a tv screen is symbolic of our modern approach to information but also how we absorb our surrounding -similarly to the dinner table that we as a family come from the same pool and are connected but we all have our own "plate" of things that we get from the table/pool. 

I want to explore adding other sketched features to the design to create more balance. Perhaps adding small images in the pool that represent who we are and what we do. 

here I tried to explore how to fill the empty spaces. Conceptually and Aesthetically i am happy with the objects in the sludge design. I was unsure how I felt about the "empty"ish space in the top right corner so I tried to fill it in

Other colours:

I noticed that the colours look different from my laptop screen vs. phone screen. 

I asn't 100% happy with the flow and the balance of the piece so I started to develop the sludge. Whch I think worked better but needed cleaning up. I also decided to choose the purple because I felt like the red was too much of a contrast and visually confusing, where as the purple is obviously some sort of cartoon sketch because of the unreailstic colour but also provides enough contrast without being overwhelming. 

 I chose darker purple to increase the contrast between the black and white. 

I experimented with putting a filter over the objects submerged in the sludge because I felt as though they didnt work cohesively all together it looked too messy and confusing. 

However this felt also very confusing because my eye was drawn to this purple mass but there is no obvious focal point here so I developed my final concept from this.

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