For my fourth concentration piece I continued my investigation of how the media affects' society by looking at the way smoking is presented to the public. I began by looking for images in advertisements, etc. and found two strong images of provocative women smoking cigarettes. I thought these two images represented the objectivity of women through the advertisement of smoking very well. I CitraSolv-ed these two images as the first layer of my piece and then found a few more images of old-fashioned advertisements to contrast the new, updated images. Lastly, I included a picture of modern day teenage girls to show the legacy of the way smoking is advertised to women. After finding images I began layers on watercolor pencil, pastels, and charcoal to create a background of smoke clouds. I wanted the mass of clouds to make the viewer question the messages they were being sent about smoking. During critique I was advised to increase the contrast in the values of the piece for more eye catching qualities. I was also told to work on the design structure in the background so that the viewer's eye was led around the work in a purposeful way. From those suggestions I added more media to increase contrast and tried to make the desing in the background more radial. In all, I like that this piece is provocative and grabs the viewers attention through the use of line, shape, value, movement, and rhythm.
i deffinetly like how you fixed the smoke and outlined the girls. Makes them stand out a little more. could use some work on the corner pieces so the smaller images don't get lost.
ReplyDeleteThis is so improved from the critique. I like how you smoothed out the smoke and made it flow throughout the artwork. It is very individual and different take on the subject. I think this is very good and you are improving a lot.
ReplyDeleteI really like how yours turned out! I can definitely tell that the black around the page represents smoke but your design structure doesn't stand out as much but it still looks great! I also think you did a really good job adding colored pencil over top of the citrisolv!
ReplyDeleteMary- This piece seems to have a stronger sense of purpose than your previous works. I would continue to develop the contrast using a white colored pencil or charcoal to emphasize the smoke billowing and taking over the image. I would also use colored pencil to redraw into the girls just a bit more to help outline them an pull their skin tones together. Finally, look at this piece for the similarity structure that you have loosely established and see if you can define it just a little more to create more unity.
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