Year 1 Art

Black Death I decided to call my piece 'Black Death' simply because that is what it's about. Black death is the supposed most common name for the 'Plague'. I based my piece off of the rhyme "Ring-a-ring o' roses, a pocket full of posies". As I wanted to include a certain material I found related to flowers, I thought this'd be perfect. The basic idea behind my piece is that appearance isn't everything, like the rhyme for example. Although it is sung happily, it has a dark meaning as it is related to the plague.    In a way, my title is quite misleading if you don't understand what it is. Whilst it has a dark meaning, the appearance of my piece seems quite the opposite. The use of mostly bright colours would lead the viewer to believe, at first glance, that it may be positive. Although I hadn't sketched my initial plan for my piece, I had quite a few variations along the way. Originally, I was to presen...

This was my first attempt at creating shapes using a piece of string dipped into ink. I realised when I tried it first that I had pit too much ink on the piece of string. After I had established this, I wiped some off the next time with some tissue and it came out great. I really like how the string creates the vertical lines due to being pulled down and out of the closed book. With the second attempt, I tried to make it slightly more abstract by randomly splattering ink around the string-made patterns. Even though I like this effect, I wish the patterns I made with the string were wider at the top. I feel that when I do this, it shows the interesting pattern it makes better. As I was more confident by the third attempt, I decided to use different coloured inks and try making the shapes/patterns at different levels. I really like the combination of colours I used as they're all quite similar. This is because I only used red and blue...