Encounter

The three following images are influenced by Rihanna's latest album. I created a portrait painting using water-colour. Then I scanned the painting onto an Apple Mac and worked on the facial features and shapes by using Photoshop CS4.

For the Encounter brief I took a photograph of an exterior house wall found on a local street near Macclesfield college. On this brief I had been asked to respond to something that I found relevant to my idea. I based it on Rihanna's song called What's my name. This piece of work has also been inspired by Banksy. I loved how he presented his graphic work on random streets, which I think it made the images become noticeable and remarkable to the public eyes. To place the painting onto this wall I used Transform tools such as Scale, Skew, Distort and Warp. This helped me to fix the painting on the wall nicely and make it look as if it's been painted directly on the wall. To make the dripping effect look more realistic on the wall I used Overlay tool and finished off with a written text " Oh na na, What's my name x3" which gave a very impressive finish.