mixed media research

this is some of the pictures I did in the mixed-media class.
The original photo looks like this:

.. Kind of dark and has this sense of doom over it.
I tried a few things to change that impression. (I pardon for the lousy quality of the pictures down below. I photographed them with my camera.)


The first example I did by painting the backside of one photocopy with an black oil-crayon, and then I just laid it bottom down on top of a blank paper and started to fill in the forms with a knife. It ended up like this, with kind of a sketchy feeling. Almost a bit grunge. It doesn't have this depressing feeling over it, because it's much more lighter.


With the next example I almost did the same thing, but on a bright coloured paper with an orange crayon, to see if I could make the picture even more 'happier'. I experimented with only filling in the contours, and I used an analogous color-scheme from the warm side of the wheel.


Here I took my photocopy and transfered the ink to a blank paper using aceton. I inserted a few elements in the picture and filled in the outlines to do it more dynamic: a bird, and extended lines. This is my favourite version of all the ones I did. I like it when it only have one coloured element in it, and together with the diagonality lines, the picture gets more interesting to look at.