Transcription: ‘Paula Rego and her Stepmother’ pages 33 -36 The Golden Ratio

Continuing with my transcription Snow White and her Stepmother’ by Paula Rego:-     I changed the colours around on page 34;  from negative to positive, with the orange dress becoming flesh tone.   The composition is mostly made up of triangular and rectangular shapes!  This relates to the ‘Golden Section’ or the Golden Ratio. 

Transcription: Paula Rego ‘Snow White and her Stepmother’ page 31 and 32

page-31 Continuing with the transcription of ‘Paula Rego’s ‘Snow White and her Stepmother’ – For this page, I attempted a bit of cubism (a  movement invented by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso 1907).  This is where the surface is broken up, put back together, so that different viewpoints emerge. To be continued tomorrow….. Pages 1

Transcription: ‘Snow White and her Stepmother’ by Paula Rego…..ongoing

This is my main transcription I did a few years ago.  I got quite a lot from this image, which is part of a set.  This one was at the Whitworth Gallery Manchester at the time and captured my imagination.   I traced the outline of the picture to see what possibilities the shapes offered.