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| Margaret Thatcher Portrait |
The intention of my portrait of
Margaret Thatcher was to use the techniques, ideas, and style of Sarah King to
create an accurate portrait of Margaret Thatcher using the words of Margaret
Thatcher.
The research I carried out into
the work of Sarah King influenced my work, because after studying her work
several times, with each time in more detail than the previous, I was able to
work out how thick and what style of lettering I should use for each part /
shade of my portrait of Margaret Thatcher, and where it was appropriate to use
an image, instead of words.
I feel that my portrait of
Margaret Thatcher was very successful, because I have been able to create an
accurate portrait of Margaret Thatcher using the techniques and styles of Sarah
King. However, for the portrait to look accurate and effective, you have to
look at it from a distance, or look at it from a photo of my portrait.
Otherwise, you cannot really see the whole portrait and how effective it is,
instead you concentrate more on the words and try to figure out what the words
are.
From this experience, I have
learnt that I can create a successful and accurate portrait with words that
either represent who they were / are, what they do, or what they believe /
believed in.
This experience has influenced
the direction of my project and ideas, because it has given me a technique of
creating portraits that represent who the person was, what they did, what they
believed in.
For this portrait, I have used
the technique of typography with the words from Margaret Thatcher’s remarks on
becoming Prime Minister from May 4th, 1979 (http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104078).
To create this portrait I simply used a pencil to outline where each word would
go, then I used a fineliner pen to create the words. I feel that the materials
and techniques I used were very effective in creating a portrait of Margaret
Thatcher, using her own words.
