I chose the painting Reverse by Jenny Saville to appropriate into my own work, as Saville inspires lots of my work, despite her medium being something which I do not -as an artist- particularly use to finalise my work. To do this I photographed the model with her face pressed against a mirror in order to recreate the reflective surface from the original. This outcome was then edited this with Photoshop by posturizing the image to mimic the bold brush strokes typical of Saville’s work. Saville uses this technique to highlight the high and low points of her models, defining the tonal contrasts -much like the effect of posturizing does. I then saturated my interpretation to capture the raw emotion from Saville’s piece. Although Saville contrasts this with cooler toned yellows and blues I decided against copying this technique as with my blue background I found the resolved piece to be too dull through the choice of colour tones; I also chose against editing out the background to imitate Saville’s painting as it would have looked too unnatural for the composition I was attempting to appropriate.

Overall, I found that my process was well approached. Linking her painting style and manipulating this across mediums through posturizing was a great method and my outcome was successful in achieving what I intended to.