Grace Kelly and Bing Crosby

Moving on with some project work, I decided to work with a larger scale and experimenting again with separate layers. On top of this, I wanted to create some work for the upcoming silent auction to fundraise for our London Grad show. I decided to create an image based on a scene from High Society. Unlike the other images, where I'd start off with the background, I decided to work on the figures first. I put a lot of detail into each figure, as I did with the male figure in the Trinidad party image. This meant that each figure was very detailed and had a lot of colour in it already. I tried to break up the detail with some bold one colour pieces such as Crosby's blue dinner jacket. This was cut out and then worked into with white watercolour pencil. Out of the whole of the figure pieces, this was my favourite part, mostly for the simplicity and the attention drawn to it due to that fact. I spent a long while on each of the figure, therefore looking back I feel like I made a rash decision on the background. Panicked by the idea of having a plain background, I made a wallpaper background, drawing pattern onto a bright pink background as you can see below. This for me has ruined the whole piece and I didn't quite realise until the figures were stuck down that I did not like the background. This has prompted me to perhaps not stick down paper cut elements so quickly and to photograph them before hand to analyse how well it works. Conclusively, I did not hand in this piece of work for the silent auction as I just felt it did not work well as an image and would rather leave it as a mistake not to be repeated.