3 R's- Development

 I continued to develop my cloud creatures by researching artists who had been inspired by clouds and using everyday household objects to create art. I looked at Matthew Albanese, who uses cotton wool to create clouds and lights them using coloured filters to show different levels of sunlight. He then uses photo editing and compiles the photos together with other photographed materials to create scenery. I really liked how Albanese used different colours of lighting to create such a huge variety of cloud types and moods. I explored with coloured lighting myself using LED lights and shining them onto my cloud characters at different angles. The mood of each character had drastically changed and it seemed as if the different lights automatically gave each cotton character a personality. There was a new degree of depth and vibrancy to the characters now that there was light applied.

 I also looked more at how clouds form. Clouds form and reform and separate, which distorts and changes the shapes that we see. I looked at Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate in Chicago, which uses a mirror surface to distort the shape of the Chicago skyline and clouds. I thought that I could explore in my work a way of showing how the creatures that we see in clouds change and distort, often forming new shapes of animals. I decided that I could produce an animation to show this in a narrative, perhaps using the perspective of a child cloud watching.