After the issues with my previous experimentation, I decided to go back to the watercolour piece that abstractly represented how I envisioned the polyps that make up coral to look and decided to expand on this. Throughout the project I envisioned the final piece to illustrate the contrast between what healthy coral looks like in comparison to bleached coral. By doing this I hoped that viewers would make sufficient efforts to mitigate the impacts of their everyday activities on global warming and its resulting effects on sea temperatures and the destruction of coral reefs. I therefore decided to paint the piece with colourful polyps progressing into less colourful ones to show that this is what will happen to these underwater environments if we don’t take better care of them.
Primary visual research for further developmentation:
Even though I liked the outcome of the final piece, I still felt like it needed more information to better illustrate the message. Walking across an English beach I took pictures of various imagery and textures that might be good to add to it but later decided that this might make the piece look too cluttered and busy so I chose to leave it how it was.
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