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Motivated by the need for strong female depictions in our culture , as well as the
desire to research and pay tribute to the women workers of World War II , the author
initiated the War Women project as the focus of this thesis . The objective of the project
was to create a series of large -scale paintings of the women defense workers of World
War II that could be used to pass down these women s motivating legacy and reveal its
contemporary context . To begin the project , nine historical photographs were chosen as
source material for an original set of nine paintings . A problem arose when attempting
to paint these images because the photographs chosen were low in resolution , leaving
them vague and undefined . Though sufficient for creating the basic idea for a painting ,
the chosen photographs needed to be enhanced and re -created to become useful source
material for the series of representational paintings . To enhance the images , props and
models were found , photographed , and , in one instance , three -dimensionally modeled to
replace their counterparts in the original photograph . Digital techniques like
compositing , colorizing , and color correcting were essential tools for reinventing the
source material . The resulting images were adequate source material for the series of
nine paintings completed for the War Women project . |