Shape and Texture Session

I felt in my element during this mornings exercise. I love playing around with shape and collage. I think that the last one works the best as it is a simple yet an original representation of a banana. It works well as a symbol and I think that the three dimensional element adds an interesting twist to it without taking away from its minimal aesthetic. However, there isn’t much of an evolution found in my images. It would have perhaps worked better to take a simplified image of a banana and tweaked it each time to see where my media would take me. (maybe ripped soft edges might have worked well?)

I’m really not at all happy with my self portrait from this afternoons session. I didn’t apply anything that I have learnt about shape or texture to it. The face is face is totally out of proportion and it doesn’t resemble me in the slightest because I did’t plan it properly. It is also just too purple. I could have made it more interesting by playing around with a larger range of textures, colours and media. At the time of making I was feeling really drained and ill and all I wanted was to go home. I did however definitely in some way encapsulate how I felt at the time in my image giving it a sense of mood.