For my A-level art course work I am looking into dance and movement, I was mainly studying ballet and the shapes that the dancers make. I then found the myth of Apollo and Daphne and wanted to try and incorporate the myth into my artwork so I decided to use my photoshop skills and morph together a dancer and a tree. I then went on to painting the images and trying out different techniques and materials.
I tried using oils, inks, watercolour and painting oils onto acetate. I really liked doing the whole painting in oil paints, I think that the most successful image was the one with the dancers back to us as I think that the background created an interesting element to the image and I also thing that the highlights in the tree work together well. I just need to work on the detail of the dancer itself, but I felt that the dancer in the second painting was more successful.
I think that the myth fits in very well with my work and I want to try and incorporate different ideas and new techniques within the work.
Waterbased oil on paper, A3.
Water based oil (dancer and tree) and water colour (background) on paper, A3.
Waterbased oil paint on acetate.
Water colour on paper, just under A3.
