The title of my previous projects was ‘the remake’. I began by focusing on well know celebrities; however I didn’t feel very inspired by this direction. With the combination of Dawn Mellor, Glenn Brown and Chantal Joffe; I began to paint celebrities, who were on the edge of their celebrity ‘statuses. My work was firstly fuelled by the annoyance of on the edge celebrities, such as Kerry Katona (featured), Jordan (featured) and Alex Reid (also featured). All these ‘celebrities’ haven’t ever achieved any sort of greatness, however the public is forever involved and fuelling their stardom. My first painting was a delicately inspired Glenn Brown. This was the first of the series where I began to play around with the processes of painting. Katona (Glenn brown inspired) was the painting where I was focusing completely on the outcome of the painting. This was the painting that took the most amount of time, but wasn’t my favourite. She was depicted stoned; I decided to do this because of her awful appearance on ‘This Morning’. She had since commented on the interview, saying it was her lowest career point. The next painting in the series was Jordan. I decided to focus her painting on the application of the paint. I decided to use cardboard and a lot of paint, this way it would exaggerate her already excessive amount of make-up. I thought that the use of orange was a simple but effective use of colour as it shows her ability to overdo things. This was one of the quickest paintings as I did it in anger and an impulsive way, which then helped the texture of her outcome. The final painting in the series was of Alex Reid. This was one of the more important paintings as it was the catalyst for the thought of my final piece. This painting was done blind, which meant that when painting I would only be able to see Alex’s face. I set up the easel so my body was in front of it and my arm was bent round the side, able to reach the paper. This painting was all about the image of Alex. So it doesn’t matter was my arm was producing, as long as I am totally focused on the picture of Alex and what I can see. After painting the series I felt that the one of the Alex was my most successful as I felt that it was what I wanted to try and portray a celebrity as. This then led on to three experimental pieces to see what colours and layers would work well on my final piece. I first began with two layers; both of Kerry Katona, however with different emotions. One layer of a ‘Jordan’ inspired painting on top, and an accurate depiction; Katona inspired, on the bottom. When this was finished I didn’t like how the top layer had totally overpowered the bottom layer. I didn’t like the colour order either as the under layer was almost invisible. The second attempt I put the accurate depiction on top and the textured, blind piece on the bottom. I think this worked well as you could see an even percentage of each painting, and you could see the range of colours. My final experiment wasn’t going to contribute to the outcome of my final piece, however I wanted to try a continuous line drawing underneath and an outline on top. This was just to see if I would have been better of using a different media, although I didn’t get the texture and the full depth of the image when using charcoal and ink. My final piece was created using three layers of Jordan using a range of colours and processes. The first layer an accurate depiction of Jordan, using dark reds and pinks. The second a blind painting of Jordan, riskily using black and different shades of orange. The final layer another accurate outline of Jordan, just using a light flesh colour. This then gave the other layers space to come through. The three layers represented different faces of Jordan and how she adapts to the celebrity lifestyle so that she can go on existing in it.