Up, Close, and Personal

While developing ideas I was thinking a lot along the lines of looking very closely at someone of something like in someone’s mouth or up their nose. 

Then I was thinking about things situations where people are intruding on personal space. With this I thought of busy city streets, packed subway cars, and a full elevator. Being in an elevator is one of the most awkward situations because there is no personal space. At this point I had the “close and personal” part but I didn't have the “up”. Then I realized that elevators obviously go UP and down so I used a large bright upward triangle to stand out in the picture and emphasize the upward direction of the elevator. 

By using partially-dull colors for the picture the bright yellow creates a lot of emphasis because its difference in value. I chose to use watercolor and pen and ink to do this project. I felt the watercolor would create the dull color I was looking for and does not involve much detail. I wanted the picture to remain impersonal so I made the shapes of the people very rough and did not include their eyes. The pen simply helps to show the figures better and add value by using crosshatching. The risk I took in this assignment was the watercolor and pen. I had no idea how it was going to turn out and did not know how to use it very well. I had experience with the pen and the crosshatching but I had never tried to use watercolor the way I did.