Miss Havisham- Rehearsal Practical

Within this lesson we were to create our final interpretations of our Miss Havisham characters.

My partner (Sandra) wasn’t in the class so I had to use another model, I found this frustrating as my design is based on colourings within the natural skin and enhancing these i.e.- the blues of the veins and I couldn’t practise matching the colours and practising this on Sandra’s skin tone.

I found that within this lesson I began to get frustrated as I had all these ideas in my head about what I wanted to create but couldn’t find a way to pull them all together and place them onto the face. Lottie sat with me and discussed my main inspirations witch we both decided was my interpretation of the colour Platte something I had been interested in from the beginning I also felt the vein blues and yellows represented the delicacy and created a rawness within my own characterisation of Miss Havisham.

Lottie suggested that I should concentrate on this rather than trying to add in all the elements I have been taught such as ageing, cuts, peeling and I found the creation onto the face began to come a lot easier concentrating on one element rather than several.

Lottie helped me recap on placing of the colours onto the face such as:

-Contours- dark colours witch would be my blue tones

-Highlights- light colours my yellow tones

-Blending- in between colours- my green-pinks

I began also creating veins onto the face, and developing these I would like this to be a key element within my interpretation creating a transparency within the skin and mirroring the idea of the leafs in the hair- flowers slowly dyeing and decaying. I have further decided that I should keep the peeling only around the mouth and a tiny part around the nose rather than in the larger areas as I felt it took away from the delicacy of the veins.

I was pleased with what I had learnt in todays lesson and felt a lot more positive with the help from Lottie and although I didn’t get to create my full final design onto my partner I found this lesson made me feel a lot happier and confident with my direction of my design.

I would like to practise before my assessment as I feel this would make me feel more confident going into my assessment I will try and organise to meet Sandra out of class hours.

Lottie's example

Colour contour