Art Review PART 1

This my plan for my first board. A representation of where my papers are going to be placed and how big or small they are. The dimensions of every paper are recorded to size as well.

Then I cut out all the needed paper for my boards.

Next, are all my ideas of what I am going to put on my board. A brainstorm of every idea I had and colour palettes ill be using. I ended up coming up with the idea of dragons but manipulated into something to do with the Maori gods. For example, Tanemahuta, the god of the forests, will be a dragon with bark-like skin and ferocious gold eyes. I have 4 gods I want to focus on throughout my boards.

Next are just practise drawings and paintings for my boards.

And by the end of the practice phase, I finalised my decision and started on my first paintings for my board. Using Indian ink and charcoal I created a background texture on all four paintings. Obviously, each colour represents a god. Red for Ruaumoko, yellow for Tanemahuta, blue for Tawhirimatea and purple for Tangaroa. Then using white pastel I added highlights to each piece. This is the work I did in term 1.

 A lot of planning and sketching occurred during producing my art works for my boards. On the left are sketches of dragons I possibly could have used and also familiarising myself with dragon anatomy. On the right are my perceptions of Ranginui and Papatuanuku. They are in humanoid form because it is easier to understand my story by using this form yet they can come in many different ways.

On the left is my final planning for the ends of my boards. Using space to calculate the possibilities of my future pieces and to somewhat give me an idea of what I want. To the right is a quick sketch of a face that shows the tone of a humans face. Or presumably of where some of the shadows would go.

 These are used to show my understanding of tone.