Finished Daredevil Pieces

After a few weeks working on them, my Daredevil pieces are now finished. Below you can see the development on my work leading up to my final pieces. By working on all three simultaniously, there is a common theme between each piece which works well as a transition between the images.

Alternatively, watch the development process in this video:

 

These early stages are just acrylic primed boards with a quick sketch of the compositions done in oil pastels. I colour coded the base layer to signify which painting was which. Example, I came to refer to each piece as Blue, Yellow and Red.

I used a pallete knife to scrape oil paint down the wall to create a rough stone texture

I decided collage was the way to go on the wall. I pva glued newspaper down on the wall and primed it with yellow acrylic paint, just as a coloured base layer.

I repeated the pallete knife scraping effect on the wall and stuck the collaged newspaper element onto the wall

 

Here are the final pieces.

My favorite of the three pieces is probably the second one. This is because there is a lot of changes in the piece, in colour and shape, it's a busier piece but not over crowded. I like the angles of the models and background and I think the composition works really well. My least favourite is the third piece, this is because the piece is quite empty, I think the composition is weaker because there is no main focus on the image and it's more so all the same focus. I like how all the angles are different between the pieces but maybe I could have painted a bin or something either in the background or foreground to give it some more depth. The first piece, because  haven't talked about this yet, I like. I think the brick work is really well done and my colours on the piece are really strong. I would have liked to work on the figure a bit more but based on the material of the costume and what my model was wearing in the photographs there wasn't a lot of light to work with. I think the collaged elements work really well in this piece in particular and the depth is done successfully. I also managed to sign my work succesfully in these paintings, which is something I struggles with a lot because I have a long signature. I managed to sign them very subtly.