Geraldine Georges

I found Geraldine George's work to be very interesting in the way that the artist combines photographic and hand made elements to create one image. The image is moulded in a way to create one image very intricately the elements don't seem to be separated in anyway  it gives an impression that is how the image should be. the artist's use of color is very minimal in terms of the hand drawn images; the photographs have been kept to their normal tones and colours whereas the hand made add ons have a mixture of both tonally mixed and flat colours. which gives the image a surreal effect and also a wonderfully illustrated effect. The image grows on you over time whilst keeping you interested; it makes you ask questions like who is that person under the mask, why is she so surprised, what is she looking at and after all the deliberating you start to look more deeply into the image and its features and take it in on a personal level looking at the curves choice of color thew poses the facial expressions etc. I found that looking at these images each person has a different pose to fit their mediums.  In my opinion this is why the images come together so well as the artist has thought  very carefully about  each faze of the image and its development aswell as trying to take these techniques into my own development I will take the lesson of slowing things down to get more thinking time into my designs and go through each stage of my designs more thoroughly as this will help dramatically with the final outcome.