sketch book work

Here are some pages from my sketch book, preparotary work for my final collage pieces
these are my first images of Flora and miles, drawn whilst reading the book


The Governess


and a more developed image of Flora and much closer to how I decided to finally depict her


And some practice and development in my sketch book for the childrens faces

Flora in her bedroom

I wanted to create a portrait of Flora sat in her bedroom, where Miss Giddens often becomes frightened of her supposed behaviour, and suspects her of being in league with the Ghosts. I used photographs of rich fabrics for the curtain the the chair and overlayed them onto my basic ink painting again.

Flora at the Lake

Here is my next Image of Flora at the Lake, With Miss Jessel behind her rising from the water. I love the Image of her in black standing solemnly on the lake, so I definately wanted to create an image of that scene.
I started with an Ink painting of the lake and overlates some photographs and another drawing,

The turn of the screw - Miles

My next image from the Turn of the Screw series is an image of Miles on a chair, in a common daguerrotype pose, with the shadowy image of what is possibly quint at the window, spooky stuff! Here is the basic ink painting I started with


and the first version I came up with on Photoshop


and my second composition with the chair more central and more in view, I think this one is the one I will use as one of my final peices

The Turn of the Screw - part 1

I completed my first full size Illustration for my Final Major project this week, I have done a portrait of Flora in the dark, dingy rooms of Bly.
I am haply with the image as it is, but I'm going to do some photoshop manipulation to see what I can come up with and see how I can possible improve it
The original portrait, detail of Flora


A sepia filtered and tinted version


And tinted without the Sepia, which I much prefer to the sepia, which I don't think works in this image