Week 11

 

Lionfish- After Bukovnik

Craft

This particular piece was crafted in watercolor pencil onto watercolor paper.  Taking a photograph taken by myself in the summer of 2010, I used tracing paper on top of the original photograph to plot out the tribal designs.  The image on the tracing paper was then transferred over onto the final paper, and from there the watercolor pencil was applied and then water brushed over it, or copious amounts of water were placed in sections and then while still wet drawn over with the pencil.

Concept

This piece was crafted after the works of Bukovnik, an artist who worked in the creation of watercolor pieces of floral arrangements.  For this piece, I incorporated the colors of one of the works into the piece, and followed after the artist's use of little negative space.  The piece is meant to use strong, vibrant colors of the fish it is based off of, while simultaneously eliminating the largest amount of negative space, while working within the confines of a watercolor-like medium.

Composition

This work is meant to dominate the majority of the space of the paper, while still leaving breathing space between the intertwining tribal designs.  Less of the designs were used in creating the head of the fish, to focus the eye to look away from the cluttered spines of the lion fish's "mane"and towards the bottom right edge of the work.