Experimental portrait project evaluation

Experimental portrait project evaluation.

For this project I decided to produce a self portrait because I thought it would be easier to do as I know more about myself than others. From the other project I used techniques such as sgraffito, coloured pencil on ink and mono printing. I attempted to use sgraffito on my eyebrows and on my eyes but it didn't work very well so instead I used it in the bottom corners of my page by putting down oil pastels first and then painting over the top with black acrylic mixed with washing up liquid, I scratched in some words to describe me and then a drawing on the other side, I don’t think this was very effective or interesting. I think my mood boards turned out okay, I like the variety of media I used but I feel they could have been more creative, as they are in other projects. I am not impressed with the turn out of my final piece because the proportions of my face are all wrong; I painted my mouth too small. The sgraffito went wrong on my eyes and eyebrows because I forgot to put oil pastels under first.  I like the fine liner and water effect and also staining paper with a teabag. I don’t like my writing at the top I think it’s too crowded. I like how I painted my lips and my hair but I don’t like that my lips are too small. So overall I don’t think it is an effective piece of work. There is room for a lot of improvement. I thought I was managing my time well, by getting everything in on time but still rushing in the end to finish. I feel that I tried my best on everything through the whole project, but I don’t think they are the best mood boards or final piece I have produced. I enjoyed some parts of the project like critical study and copying their paintings. But I didn't enjoy drawing myself and trying to use different Medias to put it together. I don’t think that portraiture is for me. 

peter Clark

Peter Clark

He collected paper wrappers, picture cards and comics as aa child, so in a way collage found him, collage is representative of his career path, as it tuck over his illustration work.   His work is coming together with his skills of graphic design, lustration, TV graphics and animation. He spends hours going through flea markets, car boot sales, paper sales carefully choosing to get papers that have character, new printed papers don’t have integrity, and every piece of paper has its own integrity, character and history. He intends to bring these together; any piece of paper that appeals to him from pavement glitter to collection pieces is a legitimate target.  He looks for bruised, battered, stained and torn and pieces that have been touched by life.  He is influenced by other artist one of which is Warhol and there’s many more. He also liked Japanese and Chinese calligraphy.