Showing posts with label Portrait. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Portrait. Show all posts

Thursday, 1 October 2015

Image Transfer Self Portrait.


This is an image transfer of a soluble ink portrait onto cotton, machine 
free stitch highlights the muscular structures and separates the face from
the anatomy. 

Embroidery Portrait.


 A portrait embroidery on digitally printed fabric. I used blown ink on
paper to produce the original surface then scanned the image in to print.
The red, blue and yellow are derived from the normal colours for
medical illustrations of the vascular and nervous system.

N.B. I do know you should never back on black. This is quite an old
image and I don't really know what I was thinking.




Ink Portraits.



Soluble ink pens on paper, showing the musculature of the face and neck.
Again I wanted to maintain relatable features, for this reason most of the
face its self is whole. The image on top is quite a bit larger than the bottom,
I think this is why the colours turned out a bit more transparent. I think I 
prefer working on a smaller scale, with these materials in particular. And yes
they are two different people.

Relief Prints.



Some quick relief prints I did as part of my 'Portraiture as Anatomy' project
The aim of the work as a whole was to describe the structures underlying the 
face, surface anatomy was vastly important to this however. The face as seen 
from the surface gives reference to the musculature and underlying structures
and by making images showing the face as normal it makes images of the 
anatomy more relatable to those who know little about the subject.