I decided on my final project being done with facepaint and then photographs of that facepaint.
I am thinking of painting a portrait painting on someones face. This would mean I would do something already established and then, experimenting with facepainting techniques, I will try to alter the viewers ideas of what they are seeing. Basically, I will try to make a 3D surface look like 2D, I will try to make a real human face look unrealistic, and I will try to make a proportional human face unproportional. These will be the next things that I will experiment with in order to develop my project further.
To do this I first need to find some facepaint of good quality. I also need to find the another of people I will be using.
At the moment I am thinking of a 6 photo A4 series featuring two or three people, or a 3 photo A4 series featuring one, or two people.
I am also considering maybe an A3 photo that features two or three face painted people interacting in the actual image, however, to do this I would need everyone involved to be free on the same day and a camera that can take images of a higher quality that just my phone or camera.
I think it would look cool though.
The final outcome of this will depend on how good my face painting skills end up being as well as the time that people have.
I have a couple of people who have agreed to work with me. I asked my uncle because he has facial hair so I think that would add a whole new dimension on the face paint that I can do and how it will look in the end.
UPDATE:
I bought some pots of facepaint that were quite cheap but hopefully of a qulity that is good enough to use. I also bought some paint brushes to apply the paint with.
I practised with the paint. I found it quite good, however, there are a couple of problems. Firstly, dark colours hold very well but the lighter colours seem to crack a bit as they dry and don't seem to stick as well. The other issue I had is that they blend very quickly-not a huge problem- but it is a bit of a problem when you let the bottom layer dry so you can later paint over it and the top layer seems to "rub off" the bottom layer slightly. I think that, with some photo editing I should be able to fix any little problems such as those though.
The next thing I need to think about is the camera quality of the photos that I take. At the moment I am taking the photos with my phone, however, the quality isn't great as a result, and it will get worse when I blow the photos up. I am thinking that, because of this, it would be better to have a series of photos that are no bigger than A4 for what I present.
As of now I have two models. I have practiced on one, a young female face a couple of times and it has worked out quite well. This evening I will be trying out painting onto my uncles face. He is older and has a beard and I am interested to see how this affects the facepaint and whether I can use things like facial hair to my advantage in order to make a more "dynamic" photo.
At the moment I am trying to paint faces so they look like paintings of faces at first glance. Ie. I am trying to blend real life with art and blur the lines between the two. My facepainting skills need to improve to really achieve this aim but I am hoping that the more I practise, the better I will become.
UPDATE:
Examples of some of my first facepainting sessions:
The last image is an edited version of the image before it. I wanted to try to make the face look as flat as possible to give the impression that it is not a real person, but a painting of one.
I will further develop this using photoshop. I plan to possibly cut out the backgrounds and further edit them so that they look like (hopefully) a flat, 2d, painted image at first glance rather than a person's painted face.
My reason for this is because I am trying to make a statement on how artwork is recognised and received differently depending on the perspective shown, and how that perspective can be manipulated by the creators of whatever form of art is being displayed.
I am thinking of painting a portrait painting on someones face. This would mean I would do something already established and then, experimenting with facepainting techniques, I will try to alter the viewers ideas of what they are seeing. Basically, I will try to make a 3D surface look like 2D, I will try to make a real human face look unrealistic, and I will try to make a proportional human face unproportional. These will be the next things that I will experiment with in order to develop my project further.
To do this I first need to find some facepaint of good quality. I also need to find the another of people I will be using.
At the moment I am thinking of a 6 photo A4 series featuring two or three people, or a 3 photo A4 series featuring one, or two people.
I am also considering maybe an A3 photo that features two or three face painted people interacting in the actual image, however, to do this I would need everyone involved to be free on the same day and a camera that can take images of a higher quality that just my phone or camera.
I think it would look cool though.
The final outcome of this will depend on how good my face painting skills end up being as well as the time that people have.
I have a couple of people who have agreed to work with me. I asked my uncle because he has facial hair so I think that would add a whole new dimension on the face paint that I can do and how it will look in the end.
UPDATE:
I bought some pots of facepaint that were quite cheap but hopefully of a qulity that is good enough to use. I also bought some paint brushes to apply the paint with.
I practised with the paint. I found it quite good, however, there are a couple of problems. Firstly, dark colours hold very well but the lighter colours seem to crack a bit as they dry and don't seem to stick as well. The other issue I had is that they blend very quickly-not a huge problem- but it is a bit of a problem when you let the bottom layer dry so you can later paint over it and the top layer seems to "rub off" the bottom layer slightly. I think that, with some photo editing I should be able to fix any little problems such as those though.
The next thing I need to think about is the camera quality of the photos that I take. At the moment I am taking the photos with my phone, however, the quality isn't great as a result, and it will get worse when I blow the photos up. I am thinking that, because of this, it would be better to have a series of photos that are no bigger than A4 for what I present.
As of now I have two models. I have practiced on one, a young female face a couple of times and it has worked out quite well. This evening I will be trying out painting onto my uncles face. He is older and has a beard and I am interested to see how this affects the facepaint and whether I can use things like facial hair to my advantage in order to make a more "dynamic" photo.
At the moment I am trying to paint faces so they look like paintings of faces at first glance. Ie. I am trying to blend real life with art and blur the lines between the two. My facepainting skills need to improve to really achieve this aim but I am hoping that the more I practise, the better I will become.
UPDATE:
Examples of some of my first facepainting sessions:
The last image is an edited version of the image before it. I wanted to try to make the face look as flat as possible to give the impression that it is not a real person, but a painting of one.
I will further develop this using photoshop. I plan to possibly cut out the backgrounds and further edit them so that they look like (hopefully) a flat, 2d, painted image at first glance rather than a person's painted face.
My reason for this is because I am trying to make a statement on how artwork is recognised and received differently depending on the perspective shown, and how that perspective can be manipulated by the creators of whatever form of art is being displayed.
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