So first day of college was on monday. After the settling in and getting to know my fellow class mates and tutors we were given our first little class project which will be shown to the public on a yet to be decided date.
The project is rather simple, we were split into groups of 3 and 4 to choose from a selection of portraits and to recreate them in the style of collage like the very well known Peter Clark.
The portrait in which we chose above was of an elderly gentleman which from our view portrayed a lived life. We Incorporated many tones of different scrap media but felt that using a map as the base best fit our underlying message that he was a man of exploration.
As the map was light in colour our next step was to incorporate other tones to add more depth to our portrait adding yellows and oranges to best resemble the heavy wrinklesand folds he bears.
As the project went on during the day we became rather chaotic and the first group to incorporate 3d elements to our Piece, adding scrap netting to best represent his fantastic facial hare.
So towards the end of our collage we started to lean into the idea that he was either some sort of pirate or south american dictator. Really enjoying this small project and look forward to sharing my class mates work in the next day or two with a rundown explanation as deadline for submission is by the end of thursday.
