Physical Experiments

Physical Experiments

To refine and develop my work I want to work with physical experiments because this will progress my work thoroughly. An idea that I have to begin with is cutting strips of my images and sticking them back together similar to a collage of the image. When researching this idea I came across Arian Behzadi who cuts out images and sticks them back together but not always in the same order. 

This is an example of his work, it looks like a painting of a man playing a trumpet with a horse beside him. I think this idea will work well with my work and will start to give my work a reason and a final outcome. I am planning on making a physical experiment for an image from each of my shoots as this will establish which type of landscape works best under these experiments. As well as cutting my images into strips I could also experiment with different shapes such as squares or diagonal lines.

I have created two physical experiments in similar ways but with different images, using a craft knife I cut up parts of the images and placed stuck them onto a piece of A3 paper then scanned it into the computer.

I wasn't able to access an A3 scanner so they had to be scanned in halves but the idea still works. By producing these images I believe that I have refined and developed my work because I have presented a meaningful response to my project proposal by creating two images that show British identity and culture with a fine art effect.  This response shows how my work has developed as I have created something further than just a photoshopped image I have used physical experiments. The images appear abstract which is what I wanted because it can be linked back with the artist Arian Behzadi as his work is presented in an abstract form. 

     

This development can be considered as a physical and computer experiment because I used both aspects to achieve this image. I used water colour pain to create a wash which is visible above I then scanned this into the computer and put it into Photoshop as a layer. I then merged these two images together using the soft light filter and adjusted the settings to bring parts of the image back, the way I did this is visible in the screenshot image above. This image incorporates photography and painting as one. 

  

This can also be considered as a physical and computer experiment because I created a watercolour wash on some watercolour paper which I then scanned into the computer. I used the black and white image of the tower bridge and layered the watercolour wash on top of the image to create this effect . I used the overlay filter which can be seen above in the Photoshop screenshot and addicted the settings to bring the darker effects into the image.