After looking over my body of work I came to realise that my studies had began to go down two separate paths- observational studies and seascape studies. When it came to developing final piece ideas I had to find a way of bringing all my work back together. I began to experiment with layering images, for example using my strips of cut offs from my screenprint I created a surface which was abstractly representative of a seascape. I then went on to loosely paint another seascape on top. Before doing this I wrote lines from certain chosen poems on to the surface in liquid latex to be scraped off later on. I then layered observational studies on top of this, to see if this would be a good direction to go in for my final piece.
Once I had produced these studies I decided to look more at the idea of using strips to create a new image. I enlarged and photocopied some of my photographs, seascape studies and observational studies. I then began to cut them into different sized strips and arrange them to create various compositions. After looking at these I decided I wanted to keep connotations of seascape still apparent in the piece, I managed this by creating a skyline throughout the piece with the various images. I feel that this was much more effective as it created a focal point in the piece. To translate this idea into a final piece I cut large pieces of ply wood into various sized strips, and painted the images on the original strips onto the panels, then arranged them in a similar way to the photocopied studies.
Overall I am pleased with the outcome of this project.
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