DEM art&design: 1984 final......

With all the planning and looking at illustrators, it has somehow came down to a day to start my final for the novel 1984. (4.5 hours)

While I did this in a day I can see the work and planning has got many of the ideas I came up with but didnt think relevant at the time.

The etching I used was from a study I looked at by Edvard Munch for another brief. While he isn't classed as an illustrator he was a Norwegian painter and print maker. With the etching he did of a couple I feel that this could fall into some category and share characteristics of illustrating.

The ink and roller work I did of a city in the classroom was something I re-used by rollering paint onto the glass surface.

The orange and lemons are reference to the poem in the novel and if I had more time I would have painted or etched some church bells somewhere.. While I didn't use the floor plan of St Clements the circles are also referenced to that. The colours I wanted muddy and dark to give the sense of a book that had a dark plot. The back of the novel I kept simple and the circles are to look like an eye or the world at war. Again keeping the texture and colours similar to the front.

The typography I just scrapped off with my nail. I got this idea from the hands pulling down the red on the back page also. it wasn't my plan at all to have these hands but the paint colour and texture just looked inviting and to be honest I thought let see what happens... Lovely thing with glass is you can wipe it off.... However, acrylic and glass dont like each other very much and I quickly learned you have one go with over painting. no scrubbing just quick and steady marks.

marking out my circles for etching onto the glass

rubbing the edges of glass so no sharp bits.

Etch the circles was harder than I thought as you have to keep steady and continuous marks. I have to say that I don't think the etching onto glass did much to my final images.

first part of orange to build up

At this point I was doubting myself and wasn't sure if any of it would work

what I could see while painting.....

turned around the right way

The roller and bigger circle. The bigger circle reference to the spy hole in the bedroom.

The size and shape of the glass looks more like a cd cover or record cover. But the layering and etching I think makes it into a class of illustrating and I think it works for what it is.