Photoshop!

I decided to try out photoshop and found it very difficult and confusing at first...but I finally learnt a few techniques. I took pictures of my own hair, and zoomed in and edited them, changing the contrast and shadows etc, which I thought added a nice effect. This also reminded me of the marrow grass which I'm going to involve in my project

Splattering paint

First I layered masking tape on paper and then I splattered ink and paint on top of the layers and peeled them back which i think creates the flowing, layered movement of hair strands

layering paper

I like the layered qualities of hair, and this reminded me of old billboards, where you can see the different layers of paper underneath. I decided to try out this technique by glueing pages of black, grey, brown & newsprint together. I then rip certain layers back. I think ill try this with more colourful paper/material soon as I want to concentrate on colour and tones.

Paper hair

. I attended a 3-D workshop a few weeks ago and started using paper to try recreate this layered textured effect of hair which im interested in. At first I found it difficult, but I finally found a technique to fold paper so that it twisted and had a nice flowing quality to it. I chose grey sugar paper and brown parcel paper and layered them and intertwining them together which I found very effective and really created the flowing movement I wanted to achieve.

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Wind moving hairrr

My project keeps jumping back to the subject of hair..I'm not sure whether I'm doing wind or hair, so I'm just going to keep exploring the movements of hair via wind? If that makes sense? I took photos of some of my friends with their hair blowing on windy days and I tried to recreate the movement on paper with ink, paint etc. Basically mark making! I stuck 3 sheets of normal A1 paper up on my studio wall and stuck on strips of masking tape, trying to create the idea of flowing hair. I then got loads of different coloured paints and started splattering it against the paper..in the end I stripped off the tape. I was kind of disappointed with the outcome, but I was still interested in the process. I might try it with just black indian ink and very thin strips of paints to try capture the intricate appearance of hair. Im also using silky thread and weaving it onto a plastic mesh at the moment, its beginning to look like strands of hair. I think I take this further and weave thread into paper? We'll see!