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My starting point with sketching was from the photographs I took of a spider as Tom suggested that I look at motifs and imagery, I started with insects which we fear such as spiders, moths, mosquitos.

Fear is a natural, powerful, and primitive human emotion. It involves a universal biochemical response as well as a high individual emotional response.

After two life-threatening illnesses, Goya was likely to have been concerned with his own mortality and was increasingly embittered by the civil strife occurring in Spain.

This is a photograph which I took at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in my first year of art college.

Proposal for Specialist Studio practice

In the Final Major Project (FMP) I wanted to explore still life painting as a creative practice in order to look at symbolism and the wider meanings if object forms.

The three images I have submitted as my final outcome.

My original idea was to use one painting as the final outcome so I had only made one frame.

I used casting resin and an old paint brush to “glaze” the plastic on to the frame.

I took Toms advice to paint more and used it as an opportunity to really focus on light and shade and the effects of shadow within my paintings.