I spent a quiet afternoon contemplating lots of my art books and thinking about what I could do.
I love the simplicity and colours of the work of Joan Eardsley and did a couple of quick sketches of children in her style which seemed to work ok. But I was worried that overall the format wouldn't work with such a serious subject.
This did, however, get me thinking about a more collage-based approach, and I particularly liked the pastel colours in this piece by Tamsyn Williams:
Which, in turn, brought to mind one of my favourite artists, Mike Bernard, who does fabulous paintings of the West Country and Venice using mixed media:
And finally, I've been mulling over this painting by Xenia Hausner for a while. I absolutely love the colours in it and again there's an element of collage:
So, my idea is to do a collage based piece. It will be from the perspective of looking head on at a market below a line of building. The market will be a row of stalls, utilising some of the face value artefacts I was looking at earlier. I will then put real children's faces (taken from my Cambodia photos and turned into black and white, maybe embellished with pen and ink) in the windows above, all behind bars. Finally, under the awnings there will be lots of grotesquely fat men (although I know it's men of all type who used trafficked women and children).
Now, you might not have any idea of what I'm talking about. But there's a clear image in my head. And, yes, I've done a sketch to plot it out, and no, it's not worth uploading!
Below are images of the kinds of buildings I'm talking about. These were taken in Northern Cambodia.
This one was taken from the net. I like all the dodgy wiring:
Sounds good. Great colour cohesion in the examples above. Interesting and workable idea. Let's hope I can do something reasonable with it all!
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