To continue looking at Ghada Amer's style and technique within her work, i chose to do another piece involving stitch-work. I started off by collecting an A4 size sheet of textured wall-paper, however she has used in her piece "Roses off limits" a flowery wallpaper. I then traced from a photograph i took in Photography class and traced back onto the wallpaper. I then used the soft pencil lines as a guide as I stitched through the foamboard.
Here you can see i've finished stitching, and i'm rather pleased with it even though it is traced. I'm not so happy with the facial features as they were smaller and more difficult.
Here I then introduced a pen drawing taken from another photograph. I chose to draw her in blue, a similar colour to the blue thread, because in one of Ghada Amer's piece, she works with a composition up to 4 images in 1 all in similar colour (such as pinks and reds) and varying the opacity to be able to see all the images. Which in my opinion, i feel this piece shows exactly that. The stitching almost acts like the opacity has turned down, bringing the pen drawing through, yet keeping the stitches visable.
I really like this piece, and feel the composition works well. However, maybe I would have added another image, smaller to vary the sizes a bit.
Drawings in my sketchbook
Here i just used pen and used dash marks to create a stitching look.
These show that i've been working with colour, placement and compositions.
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