Disguise and Cover-Up - Summer 2014

Amy Judd's work is uniquely 'weird' in a sense that she almost creates a disguise by using animal features such as butterflies and birds to cover up the human face. 

'Ascending Athena' and 'The Weight of a Thousand Feathers' (above) are two of her pieces that particularly sparked ideas in my head for further development. I linked this with another one of her pieces where a butterfly covers a girl's face by using segments of a butterfly wing to fan like the feathers on the other images I found. I think her work could relate to either gallery work or the costume industry as it involves the human body as well as animal features.

Using Judd's work to influence my own, I used butterfly wing segments in order to create a feathered effect like in her pieces with bird feathers.

Extending a section of a butterfly wing using watercolour and acrylic paints. This drawing works well because the textures and colours can be related to embroidery relatively easily and effectively. This piece of work could be improved by working in a more abstract manner, using similar colours, and collaborating figurative drawing with abstract colour smudges.