Emily

It’s so weird to think about how I am making the pieces for our final show! Last week I put up three new photographs from the batch of new pictures I took. I printed them larger and on mat paper. They are still tinted slightly green, but they look pretty much like what is up on flickr. During critique, there was a pretty good response to the images I chose.

I also soaked a bunch of paper in ink and watercolor and attempted to draw more fluidly upon the backgrounds I created in a similar fashion to my previous drawings, but I got really frustrated and tried a different approach. I printed out the same photos in a very light version and quickly painted on top of them, to see what kind of effect I could get. While what I created was not so successful, it made me realize that the combination between the photo and the image is what I would like to make for the show.

I experimented with photocopy transfers on nicer paper and was having a lot of difficulty getting them to work. My next step is to print my photos on the laser printer on the good paper and water color on them. The only problem is that they are going to be a little smaller than I hoped. I’m excited to see if this method is going to work.