progress with final project

Homework #10 (1) Further define and work on your final project. Due date: Dec 10. Add a paragraph about it’s current state on your blog.

Dec 4:
I currently am unsure what I am doing for my final project. When I rolled the dice, I landed on painting, video and environment. I am a little bit more comfortable with video after my previous project exploring the medium, yet I am still hesitant to use video in my final project. I was originally thinking about making a video of myself making a splatter painting, documenting the visual progression. I am currently vacillating between this idea and a few other ideas that would employ these three themes.

Dec 8:
Our conversation in class regarding plagiarism and how artists can manipulate other artists' work, making it their own, inspired a concept for the final project. I have posters of John French's photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum, I love them because they are black and white, simply depicting fashion models in couture against a white background. I want to manipulate these photographs and make them my own. I plan to take pieces of transparent paper or mylar and place them over the posters. Using the mylar as my canvas with the posters visible I want to paint adding details and background to the existing composition. I want to use many colors of acrylic paint and paint in a cartoon-like, childish aesthetic. I plan to keep the models as my subject, yet making them my own.

Dec 9:
I have decided to add a photographic/video element to my project, I plan to take pictures as I progress, documenting the visual progression of the piece to ultimately create a stop animation film of the painting. In an ideal exhibit I would display the film next to the painting or series of paintings so that the viewers could experience not only the final work, but also the process, to better engage in my work.

Dec 10:
This is taking much longer than I anticipated, I think I am only going to paint one poster and make one video, as opposed to my original plan of doing three. I have also decided that I want to add a narrative element to my painting, by doing this I will not only manipulate the aesthetic of the photograph, I will give the painting/photgraph character and personality.