shutter piece

My initial idea for this project was to produce work that I could put on to a shop shutter, and when I went to Margate we visited its neighbouring town of Ramsgate afterwards and where they are building a new hotel on the beach they have boarded it off. On these boards there are loads of pieces of art done by individual people. I thought that size wise it would be a more appropriate way to produce my idea. I began drawing a variety of thumbnails that consisted of activities you can do in Margate, a few images of dreamland, traditional seaside items and classic pin-up girls. My reasons for using pin-up girls were that I believe they are very classy subject and were used a lot during the 50’s to promote certain things, and it was at this time where Margate was in its glory days. So I decided to use the term in order to go forwards you must go back, and by this mean I wanted to use a very retro subject and revamp it. I finally settled on having a pin-up girl in a bathing suit, in order to not be rude or just appealing to men, laying on Margate beach with ‘ visit Margate’, above her.