I wanted to look at Leonora Carrington's life slightly more in depth than I had been doing, and draw from various inspirations rather than just from her book. Which will hopefully help me to represent her as a person when it comes to the animated sting, and not just a small section of what she was about. She lived a large part of her life in mexico, hence the day of the dead skulls.
Surrealism.
I then started studying her surrealism paintings and drawings, and doing a lot more research in this field.
What works well-
-I could add some of these characters somewhere into my finals.
-I think it conveys how crazy she was
-Id like to portray her as a surrealist artist, as women weren't really well recognised for being part of the movement back then, so would be good to shine a light on that.
Need to-
-Develop surreal drawings
-Find colours that work well together ready for the limited colour palette in screen print
-Study other surrealists and understand what its all about.
Ive also been looking at Unica Zurns work, just for added inspiration, and because she was also a surrealist who was not recognised because she was a woman. But her work is incredible! The piece above was inspired by some of hear work.
I then went on to doing some mad pages in the sketchbook, just to get ideas down, combining Zurn and Carringtons work.
I just got a brush pen for the first time ever so just been having fun with it really.
Some of the mystical creatures work well, would like to explore this more, and try to work out a way to incorporate her work into mine. Would also like to do some lino prints of some of them, just to see what I can actually do.
I like this simple line one, but would also like to try it using just shape.
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