Context of Practice: developments in the sketchbook

I started off abstracting and stripping down famous artistic images like son of man and Mr and Mrs Andrews before actually doing some research into the most expensive paintings ever sold - I thought this would be a good starting point for me to explore a range of relevant imagery.

I'm happy so far with how these pieces have turned out and I think they convey interesting messages about the meaning of art and it's value whilst also being visually appealing and successful. However I want to refine my practice further using print and digital means next because I do think the paintings loose something slightly in the quality of the work and I could improve this with digital as well as mdernising the interpretations further with the use of new media. I think both print and digital would be ana ntersting exploration of value and the idea of the hand of the maker, wether repeatability decreases value? a lot of digital art is not considered fine art at all its not highbrow enough, a lot of focus is still placed on hand generated work however simple it may be and it would be interesting to perhaps explore this through using different processes.

Nude green leaves and bust (sold for 106 million dollars)