Food at the Seaside

This is a page from my AS Art and Design coursework, entitled "A Day at the Seaside". The idea behind my theme was memories we have, particularly from childhood, of going on day trips to the seaside or beach. On this sheet, I thought about the food we eat on these holidays, from picnics to traditional fish and chips served in newspaper. On the top left, there is an image of fish and chips which was created with chalk pastel. Under that is a starfish print. I made several of these prints and then ripped them up to collage together. For me, this made my print work more colourful and interesting to the eye. On the top right is a piece of photoshop work in which I scanned my own pieces in and put them together to make a new image. In the middle of the page is a watercolour painting of my brother with an ice cream. I thought that this piece could use more tone after painting, so I used chalk pastel over it. I further developed this idea of ice-cream with clay work. I used strings of clay to create the effect of ice-cream and then used a cross-hatching technique to make the cone look more realistic. On the bottom left is a mixed-media study of a picnic on the beach. I painted the children and picnic using acrylics first. I then put coffee on the page and painted over it to give the effect of a sandy beach. However, I was not completely satisfied with the result and in further work experimented with different materials to better give the illusion of sand. Beside that is mixed media work of chips in a bag. The paper was made using newspaper which I painted and the chips were created with paper maché and ModRoc. This was painted using acrylics. On the bottom right is my first felt work of a melting ice-cream cone. Ice-cream on this page was important because it is what I most associate with trips to the seaside. Thinking of the different sauces added to ice-cream, I made a patterned background of red and pink stripes. I then sewed into them with thread.

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