After wasting at least 10 pieces of the paper I believe I have narrowed it down to three. With my pieces I decided to stick with simplicity using a combination of transparencies and other small objects.
"Smoking Skull"
The first piece is probably my favorite of the three due to the effect of smoke I was able to simulate. I used a transparency of a pen drawing of a skull I did for an earlier project. To simulate the smoke I used cotton balls, both whole and pulled apart. I decided to have the skull hanging off the edge of the paper for two reasons: I didn’t want to necessarily center it and it also ended up being a little bigger than I thought the paper could handle.
"God Creates Ape"
The second piece I think I messed up on and had to reprint at least four times before I even semi liked it. This one has a transparency of a sketch I had in a sketchbook for another class last semester. The sketch shows my strange since of humor being my interpretation of the Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel painting of God and Adam, except God is shown with a chimpanzee. I experimented with several things on this one such as the cotton balls again representing clouds and I tried to use a CD as the sun. But what happened again was the space got really cluttered really fast. So I stuck with simplicity again and went with the clouds.
"Scratch"
The third piece I used a transparency of a picture of me. In this one since my transparency didn’t take up as much space on the paper as the other prints I did, I was able to use more objects. The objects I used were a latex glove, a razor blade and the wire from some earphones. I once again wanted to utilize my weird since of humor and see if I could make it look as if I was being cut with a razor and blood was coming out (the wires).
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