A Level Unit 1: Unusual viewpoints in food

The image on the left is a page from my sketch book in which I did some research on the artist Sarah Graham. Doing this helped me learn about her techniques which then later allowed me to create my own pieces in her style. I did a pastiche of one of her pieces (image on the right) in acrylics, which further allowed me to grasp her methods and helped me gain a deeper understanding of working with highlights and shadows from images.

Inspired by Sarah Graham and following the theme of Abundance and Scarcity of food, I created a final piece using acrylics and graphite pencils from a photograph that I took. I personally think the monotone section of this piece nicely conveys the message of scarcity and it being ‘torn’ out of the original image helps the viewer to interpret the deeper meaning behind this.

Continuing to explore the theme of abundance and scarcity of food, I wanted to delve into portraits while still exploring this theme. I was greatly inspired by artist Ileana Hunter and her methods really helped me push my work further. Doing a pastiche of her piece and then further applying her techniques to my own photographs helped me understand the use of negative space and tone.

More explorations using oil paints and playing around with negative spacing and monotone and colours.