The Beginning of the Final Images

So earlier this week I have finally stopped writing lists of ideas and things to do and cracked on with the final images. Even though I now know what I want to do for the final images I'm still struggling with how exactly I'm going to make them, what media I want to include and what images exactly I want to collage into them. So my method at the moment is to bang out lots of images and experiments for the next few days and see what happens.

Last week I decided on 6 photographs of birds (from the Midway Facebook page) that I wanted to base my silhouettes on. However, I'm not sure if I want to have some detail of the bird showing through the image, or use purely just a silhouette of it.

This week I've been painting the base images of the birds. Some of them I prefer to others, but I'm going to scan them all into photoshop and see what happens!

Above the six images together. Below are the three that I am particularly happy with.

My plan for these now is too get some acetate (which I have currently done for a couple of them) and draw feathers and other details on, similar to what I would do if I was screen printing. But instead of going into the print room (because I'm not a fan of it) I'm going to scan into photoshop and experiment in there. Then after this it's onto creating more images for collaging.