Further Development of the Season Walls

Deadline date is coming closer and I am not happy about the outcome of the season walls. My aim is to have one wall completely finished and therefore have chosen to work with the Spring Wall.

This is how the wall looks at the moment:

I am happy with the detail added to the foreground, however the right hand side and centre box I am not happy with. I just think it doesn't feel right and therefore it doesn't work.

After discussing this with my tutor, I decided to just rip down the cutouts I don't like (which is the whole of the right side and the centre box.

I have now decided to just have a foreground with fine detail work like the tree and grass shown in the photograph above and have a middle ground which will be detailed but just using charcoal to symbolise its distance from the foreground. And the background will in fact be the wall itself.

This is now my complete Spring Wall:

I have painted the centre box in grey. As you can see that I have light and dark areas, this is created by using black and white paint but not to mix then. I just dripped the paint brush in white and then black paint and just started making strokes to get this effect. I thought this world look better than having just one shade of grey.

Along the bottom I had added detailed cutouts of daffodils and tulips to symbolise that is wall is spring, because previously it just looked like a landscape.

Although, I spend a lot of time making the cutouts for this wall, and then ripping them off and re-doing then, this Spring wall now complete looks simple but great and I am happier with the way the wall looks now.

This is what the Summer wall looks like at the moment:

This is what the Summer wall looks like after the further development:

As you can see that I have taken out the river and also the waterfall, instead I have placed a middle ground and also continued the grass from the spring wall.

I have also added detailed sunflowers along the bottom of the wall.

This is the detailed line drawing of the sunflowers.

This is how the detailed drawings looks when pasted onto the walls.

This is how the Autumn wall looks like at the moment:

I like the look of the left hand side of this wall. There will only be changing the right hand side.

This is what the Autumn Wall looks like after the further development:

Rather than adding detailed drawings, I added dried autumn leaves, which I had collected last Autumn and pasted them on the wall and along the bottom of the wall. I then spray painted them white. I have drawn onto the wall to add detail of the cutouts already pasted. The hill on the left hand side is continued from the summer wall.

Here is a close up of the leaves:

This is the Winter Wall at the moment:

I am happy with this wall, therefore will not change it. I will add cutouts of snowflakes and layer them along the bottom of the wall rather than adding detail. The cutouts themselves will be quite detailed.

This is the complete winter wall:

The back wall on the right hand side was also supposed to be part of the winter wall, however due to health and safety risk factors I chose not to use the back wall.

I am happy with the wallpaper cutouts of all the walls. Spring and Winter walls are both complete, however for Summer and Autumn, I need to add fine detail onto the large tree. I left this till I have time as it is very time-consuming.

Daffodils & Tulips

Here are the detailed daffodils I drew for the bottom of spring wall:

Opened & Closed Tulip: These images are set out so the largest and sharpest would be up front on the wall, and the smaller one in less contrast will be slightly behind.

Here is a photograph of how I layered the daffodils:

In order to create many of these cutouts, I drew two different positioned daffodils, scanned them and edited them in Photoshop to sharpen them. I printed the drawings on cartridge paper and whilst pasting them up, the paste brought out colour of the inks. There are hints of greens and magentas on the flowers. However, overall they work well.

Here is a photograph of the Spring Wall (side view):

Development Grass Detail

I have also added detail to the grass so you can tell its in the foreground.

This is how the spring wall looks with the details on the grass and the tree.

The photograph doesn't show what it actually looks like but the wall does look much better.

I will also add a set of daffodils to symbolise spring as I won't be adding colour.

Development of Cutouts

I have decided to add detail to the cutouts by using the marker pen rather than adding more cutouts.

This is a photograph of the tree on the spring wall:

The tree looks much better compared to the colour one I did previously. This also looks better than being totally plain. Therefore, I am happy with the outcome.

This is a close up photograph of the detail on the tree.

I used a thick and thin black marker pen and also used a charcoal to add the shade.

This is a photograph of the bottom right-hand side of the tree.

Although, this looks well it is time-consuming. It took me approximately 5 hours to add the details to the tree.

Winter Wall Complete

I have completed the last wall, Winter. The photograph below shows the complete wall.

The back wall on the right side of the photograph was also supposed to be part of winter. However, there is a hole in the floor and is quite dangerous. Whilst doing the Spring wall I did place that board over it, however it is still dangerous, therefore for health and safety reasons I choose not to use that wall.

These next set of photographs are of the other walls completed:

Spring:

Summer:

Autumn:

Now that I have completed the cutout process and am happy with the way it looks, I will start adding colour to it.

Summary of walls

So far, I have completed the Spring, Summer and Autumn walls. When I'm at the location and looking at the walls, you can tell that they are landscapes and can make out what they are, however I believe that colour is important to specify each wall differently and the colours will also emphasise the seasons.

For example:

>> Spring: greens and browns

>> Summer: bright green and strong blues

>> Autumn: oranges , brown and reds

>> Winter: white, faint green and blues.

So hopefully, once I have added colour to the wallpaper cutouts, the walls should look much better.

Spring Wall Progress

I have been working on the wallpaper cutouts for the Spring Wall over the last few weeks as a starter whilst working on the turntable. Now that the first stage of the turntable is complete, I have managed to complete the cutouts for the Spring Wall.

Here are a few photographs taken during the cutout process:

Rather than cutting out the wallpaper cutouts at the location, I decided to cut them out at home as it takes quite some time and also because it is extremely cold at the location.

This process is quite tricky as I have to get the measurements accurate of the cutouts so they can be pasted onto the walls easily. Therefore, I worked from the measurements I had taken a couple of weeks ago and also used an image of the wall so I had a visual idea of how the cutouts would look when pasted onto the wall.

When I had completed majority of the cutouts, I laid them out in a bigger room to get a visual appearance of the full wall.

Once I was happy with the visual appearance, I took the cutouts to the location and pasted them onto the wall.

Here is a quick preview of the Spring Wall Construction:

I will be using the photographs taken of the Spring Wall Construction for my Final Piece as a stop-frame animation, where the cutouts will slowly appear onto the wall.

Squirrel eating animation

I have added to the squirrel animation, by getting it to stop running and eat an acorn and set off again.

Here is a preview of the animation.

First set of wallpaper cutouts for Spring

Before I start cutting out the wallpaper cutouts for Spring based on the measurements I took of the walls at the location I sketched out what the Spring wall would look like including the measurements.

This photograph shows the first cutouts I have done.

The top 2 cutouts are for the right side of the sketch drawing. The 'grass' along the bottom of the above photograph is 105" long and is 22" in height. I will be adding another 4 inches to the flat ends of some of the grass strands.

This is a close up photograph of how I will be placing some of the cutouts leaving about 5mm gap between the cutouts.