Names (Enneagram number) – From top left: Two, Four, Five, Nine
Undertone colour – From top left: Blue, Pink, Purple, Green
The Collection of Enneagram Paintings so Far
Work in Progress – Painting for the Enneagram 2
Eye Paintings – Experimenting with Analogue paintings in Photoshop
After the last few weeks of trying to collect some ideas, I wanted to get something down on paper but I was unsure of what. Like most of my ideas, this one, of illustrating eyes as they are frequently called windows to the soul, came very late at night. I sketched out some eyes, at different perspectives and of size, to that I would a have a vessel to insert images into the iris’s either as I was painting or at a later date until digital tools, some of the eyes were too small to draw into. With the image above, I painted it using the colours in the photograph and then I want to experiment with the colour digitally to convey personality aswell. Below, I used a super warm colour palette consciously to try and convey personality that way as well.
Once I had painted two small paintings (7x10inch) I scanned them and edited on photoshop, again looking at how they could be either screen-printed or stencils. The first one, I tried to make the shapes as simple as possible after I realised my last attempt was too complicated and fidely.
With this image, even though I never got to the stage of inserting the image of personality into the iris, I found the mark making and the simplicity gave across a sense of personality and made me start to consider mark marking in the use of my portraits expressing personality.
Workshop 4 – 4/05/20
In this workshop we were required to draw our process during this Independent Project and how this would look like in a piece of visual communication. I was more concentrating on how this would help me gather my thoughts more coherently and where I am now and what I need to complete to move forward. Therefore I completed it like a mind map, however with one start point and end point. However everything in between is all interconnected and linked because the process isn’t a straight line. In my map, I placed questions I need to ask myself throughout the process. It has helped me clear my mind and know what I need to work on next.
Stencil Experimentation
As I haven’t been able to achieve/do any printmaking since the lockdown, I experimenting with hand cutting paper stencils and the spray painting them, I have learn a lot however I am unsure if I will be able to do this for this project as I am now encountering financial difficulties.