Finishing My Poster

Today I scanned the painting that I finished yesterday into photo shop and tried to scale it up to A2 and neaten it up a bit. Yesterday I really wasn't happy with how the bottom of the image looked at all, I thought it had no depth to it compared to the complicated layers of plants at the top. Since I scanned it in I realised it really didn't look right so I went back to the idea I had in my sketchbook of adding fish into the water to make it look a bit more real, I painted them and then scanned them and edited them into the existing image on photo shop. It made me realise how far I've come with both my attitude towards photo shop and using it as a means to assisting with making a hand drawn image look polished, and also to not giving up on paintings that I've made and instead just adding elements to it to make it better. These are two things that I never would have done at the beginning of the course, I also have dropped the file off at the print room to be printed properly at A2, another thing I wouldn't have done at the beginning of the year (mainly due to a lack of organisation and poor time management) but I'm really excited to see how it turns out! I also have realised that during the course of this year I've become more fussy with how I present my work to others and the quality of it, knowing that this poster will be in the exhibition at the end of the term and will be seen by people has made me want to make it perfect.

I also think that after the first year of this course I might have worked out how I can make art thats evocative which was one of my main goals. This image for me represents the journey I've been on during this year, and its one of self discovery, challenges, successes and failures, but ultimately I wanted it to have a sense of adventure similar to the sense of whimsy and fantasy I like to show in my work. Although this poster isn't my idea of perfect and this isn't my favourite composition of anything I've done, I think it gets the feeling of a journey and a sense of triumph through it which was my main goal.