These are the two center pieces for my body of work, for those of you that do not know what a body of work is, it is the major work that is required for completion of visual arts course for last year secondary education students, it is very crucial as it will be the judgment point of whether I get a high enough mark to get into the university course I wish to do. The concept behind my work is my emotional journey through my completion of the HSC course, it is exploring me through different perspectives, emotions and medium. The figure on the left is me in my early stages of the HSC course, when I was fueled with hate and anger, the figure on the left is me now, happy and full of joy and satisfaction.
The two figures are larger than life scale, full dimensions should be up soon, the faces are drawn in a black India ink 0.5mm pen which I have adopted as my signature pen. The hair is made up from small excerpts of blog posts from my 'iBen - That's me' blog which I have stained with a watered down sepia ink for the figure on the left and a mixture of sepia and brick red ink for the figure on the right. The body was originally drawn in pencil then outlined with black India ink and stick to paint it on, a high water concentrated ink mixture was used to paint the body, slightly increasing the ink ratio for darker spots and then later worked back into with the black India ink and stick to define and add detail. Early plans for the background were to print black and white ink stamps which I had made from empty pill packets and sponges, I haven't gone through with this because it didn't achieve the look i needed, it looked as though I was making an excuse to fill empty space. My future plans for the background is to build a silk screen big enough so that I can put a block red arch floating behind the figure on the left and a yellow arch for the figure on the right. The cardboard I have used is heavy-duty cardboard called stonehenge as I remember, if not I'll be sure to correct
