Hidden but alive-Post production notes

Although my assignment was based around M. C. Escher's works, what more intrigued me was the mere fact of his making the images alive. Something you never would suspect to happen. Therefore, with my assignment I wanted a picture of some type of painting really comeing alive not just in a picture but in physical form aswell. The shelves I used in my assignment I found necessary to elaborate the realness in it all, as it gave a sense of a solid form as an ornament in my project. i also made the painting 3d in the sense it came came out of the page to give the borderline of 3d emerging out of the 2d image. The trees that were bigger in the image would come closer to you as in real life that would happen. As you look closer into that image you will also see hidden images of a man's body, a man's head, a snake, a fox's head and a giraffe's neck.

These pictures taken to give a different point of view and close-up of my project.

Final Product- hidden, alive, lively

This is my final product for the first assignment with the mixture of painting media as well as the 2d dimension mixed with the 3d dimension as the picture comes out of the painting. All in all, I am pretty happy with the final product.

tree

the thicker branch that I made rather than the trial one, was very useful as the monkeys I made were able to hang on to this branch more easily. It also looks more realistic than my one I made before for experimenting.

monkeys

The monkeys I made of clay did not exactly come out as I expected when I first made them, as they could be mistaken for koalas or something else, but after painting them, they look more like monkeys. Using wire to shape the body around was very useful

clay and wood

The clay used is easier to mould as I found out in the active experimentation but it did not stick well unless water was used, so i decided to use wire for the frame of it to support it all together.I found an alternative to balsa wood called basswood which held quite well and had less of a tendency to break. The left image being the one without the wire compared to the one on the right with wire supporting it.

overall idea.

My final surprise design will be comprised with illusionary patterns and the form of it was it changes frequently from different media and object but in general has the same image.

Making the painting 3d and changing the madia within, having branches coming out of the pictures with clay monkeys from it, then wrapping the branches onto trees made of basswood which is slightly stronger than the balsa wood and the same hard cardboard with simpler branches. The shelves will be made of perspects.