This fine art session involved distressing images using paint and a ruler, we used the ruler in order to spread the paint over the image, applying varying amounts of pressure to give prevailance to certain parts of the image and conceil other parts. We were shown an example of this, Richard had already drawn over a Rice Crispies container, taking care to give prevailance to the cartoon characters face. While I wasn't particulary interested I could still appreciate how doing this completely changes the way in which we see images, like photographs and how it can completely change the meaning of images and their tone. I began by gathering some photographs of people and stuck them to a large paper background, I chose red, yellow and blue to begin with and began to spread them over the images. I took care to try and keep the people's faces exposed and smudge the rest of the paper, although I failed to do this for the most part I think I was still relatively successful as after this I decided to go for a more random approach and began making more energetic patterns over the images, like swirls and firework like shapes and so on.
(Image pending)
I certainly liked this art session more than my last one, although it still wasn't my thing (wouldn't go as far as to say I enjoyed it) I can atleast see how this form of art may come in useful in the future, perhaps as a means to create useful props for a video (making a photograph look old and worn?).
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