I really like the black images.it completely covered me and made me look like a different person, when i was getting photos in the shop the guy didn't know it was me untill i told him. My eyes and shoulders are still a bit dark with the paint. I just hope the images i present will be able to stir up some sort of feeling in the viewer, any feeling, i just want them to impose down on people when they look at it. I think the colour choice will have a lot of connotations with the viewer. Black and White, good and bad, race issues, life and death and also my point of changing someone with paint and lens. I made this to ask more questions than answers and i hope they get people thinking.

Mum i got paint on the Carpet

This is me starting to "white up". I tell you now kids paint in your eyes is a massive bastard!!!

More thinking

So i am really enjoying the fact that people change in front of the lens and behind the brush. I don't just wanna make a less good Cindy Sherman so instead of trying to be a character i wanna try and make something else. My idea is to paint my head a solid colour. See my portraits had been picture then paint. This time its paint then picture. Guess what colours i wanna use, yep good old black and white, i just prefer them colours. I'm hoping in the art work i can make something where i don't appear to be a person, that i represent something else. I'm sure people will draw thoughts of race when i "black up" and even "white up" as it were. An that is fine, im hoping to make something that will bring up more questions than i can think of. I hope people don't even see me in it an that they just see something that unsettles them an makes them think.

Cindy Sherman

I have known about Cindy Sherman's work for a very long time. There is a lot of issues in her work that she tackles head on, such as, race, sex, feminism, prejudice and stereotyping. I never thought that i would ever be looking into her work more deeply in this project but here i am. As soon as i seen the results from the paintings i made i was amazed at how they had changed when i painted them. It got me thinking about what would happen if i changed myself, like dress up as a character. I think the result would be a less good version of what you see above in Sherman's work. So im gonna try something a bit different to her work, because i don't just wanna make a poor imitation.

My Mum

This was the most successful one of my portraits in my opinion. I painted my mum because she was there, but the image painted of her she looks scary, it like the painting is a whole different person. I like the idea of changing in front of a lens or brush. It goes back to the Characters i was gonna make for the 9, by painting my friends and family i have sort of transported them into a realm of infinite possibilities. They could be all types of characters in all types of stories. Im still not gonna make a comic though so bum off if that's your idea of constructive criticism

Nick and Leigh