Other artists whose work influences or attracts me

The artist Sally Morgan uses simple figurines or symbols and shades of colours that represent real imagery to tell her storys - as do other aboriginal artists - I love the colours of the earth and the clarity of the colours used in Aboriginal art - this I think shows the strength of movement and texture - I also believe that aboriginal art is a great example of how symbolisn represents different things to different cultures and different people. There is a wonderful -painting by an aboriginal artist called sugarbag - The artist is

The paintings - art work that have influenced the art piecce

Sally Morgan and her painting Australian song where aboriginal people are reaching for the sun for live ? for energy? in harmony? The simplicity and shapes of her figures and also the realism of the colours where the sun is yellow and the figures are black.

The painting by Henry Matisse, The sorrows of the King shows how he cuts each section or part of the figure or object as a separate piece and places them in the proximity's - I have attempted to show this in a simpler form with the figures and shapes on earth.

The experimental stage

Different ideas of backgrounds for the collage and deciding on different images for the mother.
These Youtubes were very helpful and interesting for deciding on how to present the ideas.

The first stages of my art piece

I have decided to use colours that represent real imagery. Yellow for the sun blue for the earth and for the earth to be looming towards the mother and child as almost a threatening force heading towards them.

This is the first stage. I have used red on the mothers skirt and the flower to attempt to balance the picture as the mother and child are as much the focus as is the earth.

The next stage is to start to add cut outs of contemporary issues - I am thinking that too many images may make the piece lose its impact so we will see!