painting project presentation

This image for me is the starting point to my project, it has had me thinking about what theme I could draw from it to create some personal guidelines for the project.

These paintings are small studdies of the windows, my original thoughts wee that simply copying the images out onto a large canvas would create very striking paintings. But after doing these studdies it made me think that  maybe the power of the original images were that they were are bizzare phenomenon and towering over the plaza in ten foot windows. Simply painting from them would just create fairly random abstract faces. I  plan to isolate some of individual windows into photographs and have them printed out in an a3 sized format.

I decided that I wanted to experiment further with the images and try to take from it some compositional ideas. I really like all the sections of twisted lines in the photographs, i think they are distorted reflections of the metal balconies. This form intrigued me particularly  as it seems to resemble a seated figure, an i particularly like the mixture of thick and thin lines as well as the mix of the straight and curved.

I wanted to copy this image as firstly I think it works better as a  painting because it doesn't directly resemble a face, also the presence of the complementary colours  really works for me.  The painting reminds me of a desert scene with sand dunes and an oasis. But it also contains a Dali-esque feel to it.

This  picture has a very bold appearance, i especially like the strong contrast between the whites, and greys with the strong blue behind.  I want to take this aesthetic and utilise it within some paintings, as a guideline

In this painting i followed the colour scheme of the previous image and elaborated on the form slightly creating a slightly more fluid form. i painted it from a small sketch that i made, which had a completely abstract intentions. But when i finished it, i couldn't stop thinking that it resembled a cow! How ever I think this only reconfirms the theme of the photographs where you cant help but  see faces in the reflections.

This  painting again I have followed the colour scheme of the  previous photograph, but  I have created a more elaborate pattern.

 I did initially intend  to create  the peacock as I thought  some of the sketches I did resembles peacock feathers. I chose to cut it out of a separate piece of paper as  I think it helps to refrain it from getting lost in the background.

 im not  dure if the reference to the peacock is too direct maybe i  should have  made a more subtle reference.