Above is the initial contact shoot from my first art student shoot. I made the decision before conducting the shoot to only use my blue backdrop because I felt that the maroon colour of my hoodie would clash with the pink background. I also felt that the masculine connotations of the colour blue would work better with my scruffy artist look. I also decided to wear no makeup for this shoot despite including an image of dark lipstick in my mood board because I felt that this was more realistic as I don’t really wear makeup on the days when I am home just doing art. I experimented in the shoot with different poses although they are relative predicable and similar, I am assessing a hypothetic piece of art, mixing paint and miming making brush strokes.

I shortlisted these images for my scruffy art student shoot because I felt that these three images depicted three different moments and feelings I experience when painting or working on a piece of art. The first image depicts a sense of contentment and flow, I sometimes experience this when I really get into the flow of a piece, although this doesn’t happen very often. The second image depicts a sense of concentration which is definitely something I experience often, when working at home my family often make fun of my frowning concentration face. The last image depicts a moment of pause where I appear to be considering what colour to use of what action to take next, this image really shows of the colours in my water colour palette nicely. In the editing process I cropped the images as a appropriate and adjusted the brightness, contrast and levels. I also used the spot healing tool to remove a large blemish on my chin.