Sharing The Bill

This brief reminded me of an artist I've always had a love for. I actually thought she would fit quite well  with the theme. Sarah-Jane Szikora is an artist, currently living and working in North Shields, UK. The main subjects of her work are outrageously exaggerated figures and animals, naughty food and gingerbread men. As I have a huge love for baking, the idea of using this in my artwork excited me and gave me whole new ideas and directions for this brief.

This is my Sharing the Bill final piece. I think it works well because you can really tell that the girl is the odd one out of the group. I think small elements like the purse with the moths flying out shows that I read the text and took it in by including small details like this.

Like many I'm sure, one of the first things that came to mind with this brief was the Mad Hatter's tea party from Alice in Wonderland, as it is possibly the most famous tea party in literature.

 

Fernando Falcone created his own version of the Alice in Wonderland Tea Party, looking at his work lead me to come across another piece of his work where he has skeletons around a table, this really interested me, and I wanted to try and create something similar to see if it worked for this brief.

Because my first thumbnails weren't very focused they were just simple layout ideas, I wrote down a few more ideas.

[Insert observational drawings]

Because I was unable to concentrate at the time, I took a few photos to be able to work from at a later date and to also have references of people generally sitting at tables and socialising. 

http://s1286.photobucket.com/albums/a605/Kerribear91/

I took my sketchbook and pencils down to the nearest Starbucks to try and do some observational drawing of people sitting at tables, unfortunately, I found it very hard to concentrate and found that people would look at me. Because of this I decided to draw simple table objects instead. 

After analysing the text, I did a few thumbnails of my initials thoughts so I had some sort of idea what I was trying to achieve for my final image.

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The first thing I did when we were given this brief was to read through the piece of text and pick out anything interesting. Also, anything that I could easily show within an image. For example, Little Miss Moth-Wallet. I used a dictionary and thesaurus to look up some of the words to get a better understanding of them. 

STAGE ONE