Tutorial Workshop

Objective: Explore different strategies for image making and image development through cut outs, stencil making and animation.

First i traced a high contrast image before duplicating it onto a hard piece of white card. I then cut out the parts where i want to show up because i would be spray painting over the stencil. I think the most challenging part of this exercise was ensuring that no stray pieces was cut out along with pieces i want removed in order to show tiny details.

PICTURE 2

PICTURE 3

Reflections: Colour, Stencil & Paper Cut

Good smelling colours: Whether its hard wired in our brains or based on cultural factors like language and frequent association between objects and smells.

I feel that colourful means good tasting ?? Instead of colours like vermilion, orange, warm yellow, yellow-green, gray. Eg, rainbow cake -> Bright colours (blue, red, green) looks delicious to me

I think it was interesting to choose which elements that were important enough not to subtract in order to retain the overall mood of the artwork. I think in this case, the most important parts would be the facial features and contours of each face as they are what makes the artwork stands out. In addition, because the stencil is black and white, it removes some of the friendlier vibe that the original artwork gives off. The black and white makes it more serious and intense.

I chose Marilyn Monroe for my second stencil because of what an iconic figure she is. I felt that to nail the stencil to be easily identifiable, her hair is most important. However, after applying a different filter to the original artwork, I have chosen to work with a more brush stroke-like version of it, which may not be as easily identifiable.

For my final piece, I decided to choose a more simplistic artwork to make a stencil from. I feel that simplicity for stencils is more idealistic as a stencil is meant to pick out the more important, obvious and recognizable details of an artwork.