Day of the Dead

this is one of my old projects themed day of the dead and is a mexican tradition. i am going to show some of my artist response work and my final piece i created for this project. the artist i looked at imparticular was a female artist called Nani Serrano, Nani Serrano works using patterns on faces and i did the same in response to her work. for this i used the one and only Marilyn Monroe.


















 here are the pieces for my response work to this artist. i chose this artist because her work is visually interesting and i find working with patter is stimulating on the brain and vision.

having done these pieces as experimenting using pattern i decided that this would begreat for my final piece so i worked on a drawing. this drawing was in a show like style using a warm, firey colour palette. i chose to use these tones because of her famous reputation and then i created the pattern. the final piece of the drawing is really eye catching and exciting. once the drawing was complete i then scanned it into a computer to be printed on to canvase and then sewn into.

 the picture on the left is the finished drawing which took around 6 hours to creat from start to finish and the piece on the right is the piece printed onto canvase. io have sewn into the roses and also sewn on the day of the dead title.