Exercise: image development

I have picked an image from this site:

 http://childrens-entertainer-uk.co.uk/childrensfunparties.php?act=Workshops%20-%20interactive

I chose this picture because of its range between foreground and background, and association with children and circus.

There is a meaning to this picture, which is in the look the man in the background gives to the child in the foreground. Some of the children are looking in the same direction. If I play with this, the meaning of the edited image can be entirely different.

Using the computer, I have created edited versions of this image. Adding a word on each version may extend the narrative in a complimentary, slightly different or contradicting way: 

This is the image I chose as a basis for my illustration.  I had to draw up my artwork to make a poster, add colours and textures to emphasise my message.

Once I had drawn my artwork, I did it again with the word as part of it. I am not very good at colouring in, so I used the computer. This is how I haven't played with the textures as much as I would have liked, because I don't know how and decided that on this occasion I would prefer to move on rather than spending days learning how to do this...

My poster

Following this project, I went and checked the original pictures against drawings of facial expressions for artists, as I was not very happy. I printed the pics and glued them in my sketchbook with notes written on them, and added sketches with notes that I took from the book: "the artist's complete guide to facial expression" by Gary Faigin (Watson-Guptill Publications).  

I realised that the kids were not 'shouting' as such, but more 'laughing' or 'screeming with delight'. This misunderstanding of the image I used in the first place led to what I see as a poster that is a bit weird. Most children that have seen it have commented on the child in the yellow teeshirt that they saw as being fat.