COMPLETED WORK - Digital Painting

The digital painting component of my B.O.W was created using the program 'Corel Painter'. As I had not used this program before, I was unaware of it's capabilities when writing my proposal, and as such the work I produced took on a different direction than that articulated within my original proposal. My digital self-portraiture painting was inspired by Patt Brassington's work 'The Secret', adopting a similar framing within the work to generate an intensity within the composition. I incorporated a sense of ambiguity through the placement of a plus symbol taped over my self-portraits mouth. The result is a disquitening reference to integrity, as the overall theme of my work, questioning the contrasts of editing or addition of expression between online and offline selves. The selected colour palette additionally alludes to illness, through the use of sickly green tones, an inference to the potential sickness of self when a disparity exists between expression in reality and expression online.

Brassington's 'The Secret' 2010, Pigment print, 80 x 62cm, http://www.stillsgallery.com.au/artists/brassington/index.php?obj_id=folio&image=3&nav=1

Digital Self Portrait