Entry6

What have your material investigation revealed?

First of all, i did three different kinds of tryouts with different materials for a same scenario. In pic1, the upper one shows the original photo which I have been working on. I used a converted version of photo as a base and put rubber stamps on it. It turns out that the rubber stamp was quite blurred on the background and didn’t really pop out even I used complementary color. For the second piece, I used paper cut to do a simplified background, which might seem a bit too dull and the crab didn’t pop out as a focusing point, but i quite like the raindrops on a clean background. In pic 3, I used paint marker to do the simplified background and some outlines. For the crab I used tape to do it, which was quite close to the original color of crab. I personally prefer the last tryout because it has a more reasonable layering which enables the audiences see all the details and focusing point.

How do you want people to understand or engage when they look at your work? How do you intend to present your work achieve this?

I mainly aimed to produce something that brings a healing and comfort feeling to the audience, which was quite similar target to my reference artist. So I chose a friendly toy crab as a subject in the story and did it in the way like a children’s book. I want to hang it on the wall, the idea of of this comes from a kind of comforting toy for small children(⬇️）