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the brief was to come up with 6 designs as an advertising compain for an art supplies company; each piece ha dto be strong on its own, but also work in a seiries; each piece had to be made using a different medium; there were 5 mediums we had to use and then one of our own choice - the mediums were -
Watercolour
Acrylic
Oil Paint
Colour Pencils
Pastels (either soft[chalk] or oil)
the medium i chose was Paper, specificly Handmade papers.

the final pieces had to be the same dimensions as an A6 postcard; they could be larger - but had to be in the same proportions so they could be scaled down easily. the majority of my final pieces were A3 size.

My first ideas was to use some imagery from make up advertising for each of the mediums - eg: pencils= khol, pastels = eyeshaddow, oils = foundation etc...
i discarded the ides after i came back from japan, and instead decided to use differnt parts of the costume of Maiko (trainee Geiko [Geisha]) girls as each of the postcards.

the parts of the over all costume i decided to 'zoom in on' were:
Hairstyle / nape of neck
Facial make-up
the Kimono
The Obi
The ceremonial dance fan
the high- soled shoes - Okobo.

This is the Only Piece that doesn't really fit in with the rest of the series; the problem was that i wanted the series to be linked through the Maikos clothes and Pose, but as the pose was as part of a dance; it had to be inside; obviiouslt i could therefore not include the Shoes (Okobo) as part of that setting / composition.

despite this, i still feel the piece fits in tems of subject and composition (all the series' compositions allow space fot text within the image).

Soft (chalk) Pastels on Specialist Paper

Description
the brief was to come up with 6 designs as an advertising compain for an art supplies company; each piece ha dto be strong on its own, but also work in a seiries; each piece had to be made using a different medium; there were 5 mediums we had to use and then one of our own choice - the mediums were -
Watercolour
Acrylic
Oil Paint
Colour Pencils
Pastels (either soft[chalk] or oil)
the medium i chose was Paper, specificly Handmade papers.

the final pieces had to be the same dimensions as an A6 postcard; they could be larger - but had to be in the same proportions so they could be scaled down easily. the majority of my final pieces were A3 size.

My first ideas was to use some imagery from make up advertising for each of the mediums - eg: pencils= khol, pastels = eyeshaddow, oils = foundation etc...
i discarded the ides after i came back from japan, and instead decided to use differnt parts of the costume of Maiko (trainee Geiko [Geisha]) girls as each of the postcards.

the parts of the over all costume i decided to 'zoom in on' were:
Hairstyle / nape of neck
Facial make-up
the Kimono
The Obi
The ceremonial dance fan
the high- soled shoes - Okobo.

This is the Only Piece that doesn't really fit in with the rest of the series; the problem was that i wanted the series to be linked through the Maikos clothes and Pose, but as the pose was as part of a dance; it had to be inside; obviiouslt i could therefore not include the Shoes (Okobo) as part of that setting / composition.

despite this, i still feel the piece fits in tems of subject and composition (all the series' compositions allow space fot text within the image).

Soft (chalk) Pastels on Specialist Paper