Initially, I wanted to create piece with many different panels displaying juxtaposing realities and unrealities of freedom, creating dialogues of binary oppositions between ‘overly real’ oil paintings and bold, graphic styled acrylics and stencils. However, in the end it was reduced to two large panels as my ideas started to become more focused and neither of them portrayed the concepts of failed, destructive superficial visions of aesthetic freedom as I had hoped.
After experimenting with idealistic imagery often sold to us as the epitome of freedom, by playing on the superficial idealism and symbolism of mountains, and finding that there seemed to be a lack of focus in its concept and visual language as the oil painting did not address the image of ‘over real’ which I had envisioned.
Also, the use of stencils over the oil paint with acetate did not have the effect I had desired and instead of creating multiple, superficial layers made the images look discordant.
Package Ideals
First panel: acrlyic paint with black acryclic stencil prints. Second panel: oil paint and mediums with marker pen stencils of assotate sheets. Both on gesso primed mdf panels.
1st panel 345x2000mm and 2nd Panel634x1010mm
Oil paint and mediums with marker pen stencils of assotate sheets, on gesso primed mdf panels
634x1010mm
Mountainscape WIP 4
WIP of panel placement and main 2 panels of Package Ideals concept.
Digitally altered acrylic paint and stencils in Photoshop
Acrlyic paint with black acryclic stencil prints on gesso primed mdf panels
345x2000mm
Cat skull and Bird Stencils
Cut out of thick paper and card, printed with black acrylic.
Cat Skull: 148x210mm Bird: 297x320mm
Mountainscape WIP 3
Mountainscape WIPs 1 and 2 with panelling placement experimentation.
Oil paint and mediums on gesso primed mdf
Colour wheel palette experimentation
Oil paints, 420x420mm
Rebecca Elysium 