Assignment 2

 For my second assignment, I continued with the same theme and basic technique from Assignment 1, but changed the style to make the images resemble Japanese woodblock prints rather than illustrations from a children's book.  Most of the image is filled in with flat colors, and the use of scanned textures is limited to the paper background (in order to make the images look more like prints) and the garbage (in order to make it stand out from the rest of the composition).  

The backgrounds of both images feature the hills of a nearby landfill, based on the one that I can see from my house.  The recurring landfill in the background is a reference to the series "Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji" by Katsushika Hokusai, with the landfills looming over the landscape like artificial mountains.  This is meant to emphasize both their scale and the fact that they are always there, in the figurative background of civilization, even though people generally don't pay much attention to them. 

These images, among others, were used for reference (images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art).