William Hague

I got an image of William Hague (State Secretary) from the internet to use for an art piece. I also used a different medium to paint on, this time brown paper. I have taken Liz's advice and started using colours that relate to certain brands. An example could be that purple is associated with Cadbury. In this case I've used silver to contract Apples silver image. I've also used Apples logo to go against the silver, making it look like an advertisement. I've used melted crayons mixed with Linseed oil on this one and also normal oil pastels. By the end of it, the character is holding up an I-phone with words underneath him saying
"The I-phone update isn't available to anti-capitalists, go home"
I've made it more humorous with the text on this one. The character now however looks like Freddy Kruger.

One of the ideas I've got so far that could be taken is making a painting that views different angles  of the person for the propaganda poster. Also I've been thinking of animating some of the paintings that I have and making a short animation of an advertisement.

David Cameron melted

I have managed to do a portrait of David Cameron on elephant size paper. I took Michele's  advice and started to paint directly onto paper. It was indeed a challenging thing to accomplish. I did like the way that some of the layers of paint looked uncanny, such as the ghost like hand. The image was from a newspaper article where David Cameron's visiting Manchester train station. I then added text to this painting to make it look like an advertisement.

Screen Printing 2

The prints have managed to go well today. However I thought that adding the blue made it less clear. However people seemed to like it for this reason. Something that I can do next with this is to see if I can add multiple colours to it. A dry shiney surface would probably be better with this so it can stand out. The price of the A3 printings were expensive aswell, since it costed £5.50 for the lot. However I could make multiple of the same image and post it like a propaganda poster around the place.

Screen Printing

I have brought myself shiney silver paper and red paper. These will be used for the printmaking I plan to do. In the morning I shall get my image and use it for screen printing. The computer rooms have Photoshop so I can go in there and make my photograph black and white to make sure that the light captures most of the image. The image is a section of my recent images that I have used.

Painting on the wall

I have found that painting on the wall is very difficult. The waxy melted crayons doesn't spread easily so I have had to place lots of linseed oil into the paint to spread it. I have used conservative signs on this and used my old figures to dangle on string to make it look like a puppet show. I next want to try and use print making to see what would happen to my other previous painting.

Next step

Now that I've looked into more propaganda, I now want to try paint directly onto the wall. My plan will be to cut up the old figures that I've done and use them for a completely new artwork. I will also try to look at using text to place into the work and make it look like a propaganda painting.