New piece of art!

I was looking at this artist called 'Ghada Amer', she uses different sewing techniques and paint to create her artwork.

This is a piece of art called 'Red drips-Coulures Rouges', she used a mix of acrylic, embroidery and gel medium on canvas:

This is a close up of the stitching she has done.

This is the full view of the piece of art, she has used red drips of paint before applying the thread.

I wanted to explore the idea of using thread in my work because the way the thread is placed over paint looks really interesting!

This is a piece of art/poster that I previously made:

I thought it would be really interesting to take the main element of the picture which is the homeless person and duplicate him a few times on a canvas but use thread to highlight the outline of him.
I wanted to experiment with different types of mediums like paint and posters and thread etc.

I started with getting a canvas, I didn't want to get a big one because I just wanted to experiment to see if the idea worked to start off with. First I gave the canvas a coat of Gesso to form a protective layer from the acrylic:

After giving the canvas a protective coat I applied red paint in the same style as 'Ghada Amer'. It was really good because it started to form layers as I put different tones of red on top of each other:

This effect was really good because some of the paint started to drip and created an interesting element to the canvas. It was like the paint had a mind of its own! I let the paint fully dry before trying to add the thread. When it was dry I formed a template of the homeless guy from my poster and placed out where I want them on the canvas. After, I started to place the thread on the canvas in the shape of the template using gel medium:

This is a close-up of the thread being used on the canvas:

This is what it looks like now, I still need to put more thread on the canvas:

The main reason why I wanted to take the picture of the homeless man and duplicate it on a canvas is because as I am still looking at consumerism and language, I didn't want to make the theme too obvious to the viewer but allow them to interpret it themselves. The canvas represents the world of consumerism, and the homeless man duplicated represents those that are forgotten in that world. I have used the colour green thread as it is a natural/economical colour which some aspects of consumerism aren't  also red is connected with things being bad etc. so the idea of there being homeless people in the world of consumerism and mass consumption is wrong!