Oh the marker comps!!! These were done on 5 x 7 inched marker paper and flush mounted. Well this is my first time using prisma color markers to mock up a painting. All in all I think it saved me a lot of wasted time in making compositional and color decisions. In the end I ended up doing a combination of elements from the first three comps. I think the drawing on the face progressively got more and more effeminate and distorted. I took the face from composition 1, the flowers from composition 2, and the background from composition 3. Choosing a color for the bunny was a challenge because I didn't want it to be too close to the color of the bust. I settled on brown... Ready to paint!
When I started to compose the images I wanted the bust to be prominent and almost inquisitive, and the bunny to be oddly positioned and the flowers as a more random decorative element. I think I started to focus too much on the detail in the flower stems rather than the blooms. I do find the buds to be a playful element in the piece. The second sketch above has some suggestions for compositional placement to achieve my goals of creating a focal point in the bust.
The assignment is to create a 10x14 gouache montage of three un-related images, focusing on composition. So my approach was to search the word "image" on Google to generate some random subjects. I found a cool computer animation that resembled a Grecian marble statue. The next image I got was a bunny and then some tropical flowers. I think they still somewhat relate to each other in an interesting way, once I started to compose them I realized that they were all objects/ things that can be found in a garden.... huh huh think about it!
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