A Rakes Progress Group Painting

 The first painting we made didnt go very well, no one had a clear idea of what we were doing so everyone just did their own thing and had their own space so over all it looked mismatched and like a group of pieces of work so we started again and planned together how we were going to do it.

The dark background we made on the first worked well but we thought it needed to be darker to allow it to have a stronger contrast with the foreground. This time we used material instead of paper, this allowed us to use water on the charcoal which then it spread further and look messier. We used a mixture of charcoal, paint and ink to make different layers and sizes of text. We used small amounts of colour on the background that would stand out such as yellow inks and red paint, we also used glitter spreading it over certain words to highlight them but also create humour putting gold sparkley glitter over words like whore and sex. 

To make the figures we drew around eachother copying them from certain characters in the painting, i think the distorted and weird shapes you get from drawing around people works well as it exaggerates and changes the body shape and creates an anonymity for the identity of the person.

Our last problem was finding a place to hang the painting that was large enough. The only wall that would fit most of it we would of had to cut a part off, instead we folded the piece out away from the wall. Hanging it up gives a better over all view of the piece and i think it works well except there isnt anything to fully pull the piece together. I dont like how all the characters seem to be floating and theres no sense of gravity to the painting to weigh it down.