Photography and Fine Art Taster

Photography and Fine Art aren't two specialisms which I think I would choose, however it was good to be able to have a taster to gain a better understanding about them to see whether I was right about this. The photography session was interesting, taking photos of different types of materials and themes to get a range of different images. Turning these into tactile images was quite unusual, but intriguing to learn how others may interpret them. 

This is my chosen image which I developed during the fine art taster. I chose to use this image as there were a range of different features on it. 

This is my sculptural fine art piece using plain white paper. I created this illustrative portrait by slicing parts away with a craft knife. To add more depth, I added layers underneath so it became three dimensional. I quite liked this as it almost looked theatrical. 

This is my piece created during the final fine art taster session. Using a viewfinder, I selected part of my maquette and recreated it A1 size, ensuring the different tones were visible. Materials used include: ink wash, collage, graphite, emulsion and black acrylic. These were all good ways of representing different tonal areas on my piece. To improve this, I would have repositioned my viewfinder so that the area was smaller and looked less like the outline of a face. To improve as a whole, I would create a more geometrical shape to work from rather than a portrait as this limited me during this exercise as it was quite flat.