Exam- Homeless-Encountering Hope

Final piece, I wanted to encounter the idea of hope the homeless scene is alot more happy, bright and colourful as of this but still shes looking down, my favourite aspect is the wall melting into the swirls as if shes lost in hope, im happy with the outcome of my piece to improve id define the swirls alot more and add a few more butterflies, I would of also liked to done an alternative piece illistrating the darkness of the topic.

 Brusho copy of Georgia O'keeffe's flower, the way she used vibrent colours and movement to bring alive a flower is something i wanted to include in my own piece, the oil painting worked in with biro below starts to capture the vibrance of colour.

Own photos

I chose to introduce butterflies as its a great symbol of beauty/ hope also gave me a chance to bring some more colour and detail in.

O'keeffe brings snaps of different colour into her work I tried also to implement this into the hair of the homeless character by introducing the blue.

Own photos, capturing the homeless scene i attempted to capture the rawness of the topic with the harsh brick wall behind.

Oil painting of own photo, I tried to express movement with vibrant colours to give the feeling of dreams, I also took inspiration from some of van gogh's work as he introduced swirls and movement into his work, in van gogh's piece he also uses rich colours the golden yellow crops against the dark moody sky, the strokes all seem to be heading away from you like the pictures been disturbed .

Bringing the two together

Pencil drawing of photo with butterfly, along with using colour in my project I also wanted to capture the coldness of the content by using tonel drawings, using Don McCullin's rich black and white photos which are intensley sharp. He often took photos of the homeless giving them this intense feeling, Kathe Kollwitz also uses the rawness of tonel in her charcoal drawings.

Pencil copy, with butterfly this shows alot more age the resseses of the wrinkles make the image more harsh the eyes look tired which is in contrast to the butterfly.

Don Mc Cullin,

Pencil drawing of Don McCullin

Brusho and biro butterflies, capturing movement of flight using the movement of the brusho

Etchings, using brusho to go into them using same technique above,

Carbon paper, Using O'keeffe's flowers and Kathy Kollwitz self portrait, added more colour to give a little life.

Kathe Kollwitz work feels quiet, dark and a little sinister but she also captures mother and child, she captures moments. Using the idea of observational drawings i sketched my hand and face.