by Jon Parker

Created on: December 15, 2006   Last Updated: May 08, 2007

I have constructed a white maquette of four seasonal panels that I intend to paint. Each one will represent a season and I intend them to be very natural and textured. For each of the panels, I arranged various non-coloured textures in positions directly relating to the provisional composition of my final piece.

I think the structure of the piece is successful in that it has helped me decide the composition for my final piece. It turned out as I hoped it would: as an impression of what I am working towards for my final piece. However, there are weaknesses in the structure of the piece in that it some panels are similar in composition to others. For example, my strawberry and leaf are very similar in that they are both close ups of similarly sized natural forms where all the subject matter is visible, but it fills the entire space. For my final piece, I will alter the composition of my panels to vary the styles of my images.

I copied all my images from found imagery earlier on in my project. The flower and strawberry are from my natural forms images' pages. The apple is from my autumn season page' and my leaf is from the image on the previous page. I may change the state of one of my subjects by painting a cross section of one of them. I may also change the perspective of the subject matter by painting a close up image of a small part of a natural form in more detail. However, I will still use an expressive style as I will be painting on the same sized canvas.

When constructing my white maquette, I had a problem in that my leaf panel and my apple panel were both made up primarily of cotton wool. This was effective on the apple panel as it looked good against the background of seeds. However, on the leaf panel, there was no focal point and the leaf blended into the background too much: it was not bold enough. I resolved this problem by constructing a wire structure of a leaf and sticking that on top of my cotton wool area. My leaf now looks much better but I made the mistake of making a wire frame inside the wire circumference of the leaf. It now looks more like the green and red leaf I studied in pencil crayons earlier in my project than the winter leaf I intended to study. For my final piece, I will not paint any bold structural lines inside my leaf as this does work. I will merely add subtle tone. I may first construct a wire structure of a tree with branches and leaves based on those in my picture on the previous page to see how much I should zoom in on the

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