I developed these ideas further. First off, I chose the develop the portrait part of the collage with using inspiration from Voka with his style of painting. I researched and sketched out some poses of the female face by using the library books as references. I'll go on to using this painting to create other images using PhotoShop & Gimp 2.0 through other artist's inspiration.
Using this image into Barbara Kruger's style of using typography over the top of the image to show a bold phrase/sentence in an advertising way. Then I took on Kruger's style of collage and carried on with making samples of her work. I took the red out of the black and white like she did as it is an aggressive colour that makes the viewer interested.
Next I tried to create my themed idea into a 3D form, so I looked into Michael Murphy's and Pauline Galiana's style of 3D installation/sculptures. I took their ideas together and created a 3D wood skull and make a vacuum form mold of a face and collage it, taking Kruger's typography forward onto the next step of my Exploratory #2. With the mold I also placed it on top of one of my sample PhotoShop piece that was from my Voka painting, to see the colours stand out with both materials overlapping. I also made another vacuum form mold of a face and completely used collage with the eyes cut out; like a disguise or an actual mask for whats underneath the beauty on top. With the other mold I made I photographed someone with it on, like a mask just to see what it looked like, as an experiment.
As an extra experiment, I searched up John Stezaker, who merged faces together through collage. I did one in PhotoShop and some in collage and photographed then, then I made one together with collage and photograph of a piece I made before.
