This is my portfolio from art and photography coursework. Show my developing stages getting to a final piece.

1. Portfolio
Libby Allardyce
ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY

2. ART
COURSEWORK

3. Experimenting
tones through
portraits and
objects

4. Artist
study
page
focusing
on line
art

5. Exploring line art further using my own
sources and experimenting different medias

6. Inspiration from a
trip to the Tate
Modern (London).
1st image is a
recreation of the
painting I saw and
the 2nd image
created with my
own sources.
Developing line art.

7. Artist study starting to bring in colour

8. Artist study
incorporating more
abstract elements

9. Pieces
using my
own
sources to
create
pieces in
the style of
Andy
Butler’s

10. Experimenting
more muted
colours
• In the previous slide, the 2nd
piece was created with a more
muted background as I found
the bright colours lost the focus
of the subject. So I used this
source and recreated my own
piece of it using slightly muted
colours.
• I used colour extraction to get
the right colours and did a
colour wheel.

11. Experimenting acrylic paint by
painting eyes and developed
into a bigger portrait piece
incorporating 3D shapes

12. Artist
study of
portrait
paintings

13. Pieces in the
style of the
artists work
using my own
sources
Each piece is created by using
acrylic paint and as each
piece progresses I have added
more detail into the eyes as
that is what I will be focusing
my future pieces on.

14. Artist study using
thick layers of paint
to hide emotions

15. Experiments
of thick
layers of
acrylic paint

16. Final
pieces
for this
artist
using
own
sources
and oil
paints

17. Consolidating ideas to
start bringing back
elements of previous
artworks and combine
to make more
sophisticated pieces

18. An artist study
focusing on
bringing back
detail in some
facial features
and combing it
with thick and
loose layers of
paints

19. Small experiments
• The piece to the right is an experiment close up of an eye with slight
abstract colour brush strokes
• The piece in the middle is a full portrait from a side angle to experiment the
angles and has loose brush strokes
• The piece on the left is another slight close up of the eye but has more
abstract brush strokes

20. First final set of pieces

21. Second final set of pieces

22. PHOTOGRAPHY
COURSEWORK

23. CANDICE GHAI
• My first artist I looked at was Candice Ghai who focused
her work in milk baths with nature surrounding the head. I
focused my first few shoots on this as I was intrigued by
the purity of the white bath contrasting with the pop of
colour.
• I did 3 shoots and each of the photos on the next slide are
my best one from each shoot.

24. • After each shoot I developed it slightly into another shoot.
So my first one I kept it very similar to the artists piece. The
second I edited on photoshop so there was a contrast
between the model and flowers. And the third there was
slightly more body emotion with the hand on the face.
Best photos

25. CAITLIN WORTHINGTON
• My second artist I studied was Caitlin Worthington who
focuses her photography on ‘Ablutophobia’ which is where
a person has a fear of being clean.
• The black background with the black on the face has a
huge contrast with the pure white eyes.

26. Best photos
• I did 3 shoots experimenting ways of expressing this
phobia and resulted in this final set of images. These
images were from my third shoot and together the
composition emphasises the fear in the models eyes.

27. ANDREW BRAUETESETH
• My third artist focused on the nature and beauty of a
female model.
• I did 3 shoots experimenting this artist. The first one was
captured using the same idea as the artists image. The
second was expressing the model with different poses. And
the third I started to develop my other artists into it.
• For the third shoot, I had the model in a shower to start to
combine the shoot in the bath with the flowers.

28. Best photos
• These best photos from each shoot I did for this artist
are quite different from one another.
• This is because I was experimenting different angles
and ways of capturing the model in a larger background
as I am going to develop my work from these artists.

29. Consolidating ideas

30. SHOOT 1 – EXPERIMENTING
This was the first shoot I did to start combining my ideas together. These
images were 3 of the best as I was experimenting the angles and
composition to get the perfect image.

31. BEST IMAGE FOR
FIRST SHOOT
• This image was my best edited
photo as the lighting created
shadows in the creases of the
sheet and made the model glow
from the black background.
• For the next shoot I will combine
the black face paint on the model
with these sheets

32. SECOND SHOOT
This shoot I have
incorporated the black face
paint from my previous
shoots and combined it with
the white pure sheet.

33. BEST IMAGE FOR
SECOND SHOOT
• This image was my best photo for
the second shoot.
• The black face paint with the direct
eye contact expresses the fear and
moodiness of the model and the
white sheet has a huge contrast
with the black in the image.
• To develop this shoot further I will
incorporate roses falling off the
model in the next shoot as my
previous shoots involved nature.

34. THIRD SHOOT - FINAL
This shoot I incorporated roses as nature is shown in my previous shoots. So I
have developed my ideas into a final shoot incorporating the pure white
contrasting with the black and nature.

35. BEST IMAGE FOR FINAL
SHOOT
This image was the best as the model is
engaged with the camera giving the
strong direct eye contact, whilst covered
with all the roses which add colour that
contrasts with the black and white