These are some A4 paintings I did as part of my final project in my foundation course at college, where I researched water pollution and climate change to raise awareness of the effects it has on the planet. This led me to find photographs of deep sea creatures by Fabien Michenet.

I started by experimenting with a few materials and found that I liked the look of using acrylic paint on plywood the best because of how the wood soaked up the acrylic paint which I could layer up and get the desired effect of transparency in some areas of the sea creatures bodies like in the photographs.

I began by painting the plywood with a couple layers of black acrylic paint then once that was dry, doing a faint wash of blue in the shape of the animal and started adding more paint to the darker areas of their bodies. I really wanted the paintings to be eye catching so I used white paint to add small details to really make them stand out and remind the audience of what we would lose if water pollution and climate change continues to increase.

In the future I would like to experiment with doing larger pieces of work because I usually choose to work quite small. I also think my work would have more of an impact if it was larger.