Approaches to your expressive stimuli
Taking wings as a stimulus has resulted in very different responses from different media and techniques
You can respond to the same stimuli in different ways to create very different results. Think about the style you are interested in achieving and which aspect of the stimuli interests you most. When you are making drawings or taking photographs, consider:
- Realism – what degree of realism are you trying to achieve?
- Expressive qualities – are you interested in expressive mark-making, or in recreating the style of a particular artist or art A group of artists or designers from the same time period whose work had similar aims and/or similar characteristics. Examples include Impressionism, Art Deco and Bauhaus. ?
- Visual elements – which are the most important visual elements?
- Attention to detail – are you interested in capturing detail? If so, think about close-up viewpoints.
- Artistic treatment of a subject which explores and portrays it in a way that does not directly reflect how it looks. – are there abstract qualities in the stimuli that you would like to explore?
- Capturing a mood – is your response about capturing or communicating a particular mood or atmosphere?