My First Project Brief: 'Collections' - CD cases

The first project set for me at college was entitled 'Collections'. I explored three main concepts around collections: what kind of collections exist, how they there are arranged and what purpose they hold. For starters, I focused on what collections I had myself. From that, CDs quickly became my subject. At first, I looked at how they were shaped and how their dimensions varied (even if the difference was minor).

From left to right: typical jewel CD case, alternative jewel case and digipak.

The simple idea occured to me to trace around the CD cases and make the drawn shapes overlap each other. From that, I painted in the new shapes from the overlapping 'stencil work' for what was a very simplistic abstract series of paintings.

My first attempt with this method (shown to the left) gave me some overall idea to the composition of future images produced this way. In addition, I learnt that it would be best if I primed the surface unto which I was going to be painting.
Although the photo might not make it clear, the original dark tone of the card I painted on drained a significant amount of the paint colours.

I never was expecting anything spectacular from this but it certainly worked to see me work on something beyond merely drawing. Though, whether or not painting would really prove to be an accessible media for me was yet to be known.

CD Collection #1 (2010)

CD Collection #2 (2010)

CD Collection #3 (2010)