Monday, 30 July 2018

Exercise 1: Experimenting with Expressive Lines and Mark




First off - I do indeed realise I have done this exercise incorrectly. For some reason when reading it off my course book I managed to not bother reading '4 A1 Sheets' and took the exercise as putting all 4 emotions on the same sheet.
So, for now I will just highlight and talk about my 'whoops' work. I intend to later go back and correct it but for the moment I am busy working on other exercises.





Going clockwise each A3 panel represents the following: JOY, AMBIVELANCE, ANGER and CALM.

AMBIVELANCE being the emotion I was able to choose for myself.



JOY: I used Indian Ink and a pipette. I wanted to portray the explosive feelings you get given when experiencing JOY. I thus choose this medium as it has a beautiful ability to create a firework effect that trickles and bumps into all the other fireworks and keeps on spreading - in the hope that one persons JOY can rub off onto someone else and help them to be happy too.

AMBIVELANCE: My chosen emotion. The act of not knowing what decision to make or direction to go - a kind of limbo state. I used my index finger and acrylic paint. The black smudge in the centre represents the person and the streams coming out of it are examples of the all the paths and options that could be taken. Some of the paths lead to a dead end. Others, love, despair and neutral feelings. Some of the paths are connected to those trickles of JOY. There are few of these connections but they represent the reward of the consistency of trying. One path leads to CALM.

CALM: I used an XL Graphite stick. I used the stick on it's side and dragged it across the page to try and convey the idea of a loose flowing ribbon blowing calming in a breeze. Twisting and turning on it's own accord but nonetheless still done in a peaceful manner. Such as emotions go, the opposite to CALM is ANGER and sometimes CALM can leak into ANGER.

ANGER: I used spray paint. I simply sprayed a can of paint onto the page. However, it's the thought behind it that counts. When angry you are covered in this radiating static fuzz that bounces onto other people and all over your own body. You can't think straight, relax or get a sense of reason. Some parts of ANGER are very dense and it forms a black hole. Other parts of ANGER try to find an area of light where it's not as dense. Other parts try to spread up to JOY. ANGER, I think, is the strongest emotion out of these 4 and therefore whilst I have created the idea of it spreading to JOY it doesn't quite make it sometimes.
























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Exercise: 1 - Warm Up: Temporary Drawings



I thought this was a nice 'warm up' exercise to set things off with.

To start it I kept it very simple in my mind and was looking at the things I found around me that could be considered as temporary art. I did this by finding things in my house that I could create pictures with without having to glue them down.







This photo above shows an example of this. I simply got some hobby craft jewels and placed them on my drawing board in some vague form of pattern.


I later went for a walk with my family to a beautiful woodland near me. I was surprised to see so many leaves on the ground at this time of year. However, then my thoughts turned to looking at an organic approach and example to temporary art. Mothers natures creation rather than my own but still art non the less and temporary as the leaves will soon decompose




I thought the colours, shapes and textures that the leaves formed were beautiful and by taking a photograph of it makes it become my own photographic art.

Whilst on my walk I started to think deeper about the concept of temporary art and it got me to consider new ideas. My face with make up is an example. I paint it to look like a better version of myself before wiping it off at the end of the day.




I then started to consider things further and, in my opinion, concluded that everything is in fact temporary art. No matter how well we try and preserve things they will eventually cease to exist. Everything down to the worlds supposedly most famous painting the 'Mona Lisa'.


Fig 1. Giant. 2018. 

It was at this realisation that I decided to move on from this warm up.

Bibliography

Giant. 2018. ART Painting: World's Top 5 Most Famous Paintings.. [ONLINE] Available at: http://temstem.blogspot.com/2010/09/worlds-top-5-most-famous-paintings.html. [Accessed 30 July 2018].
















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Wednesday, 18 July 2018

Kitchen?






1. Patrick Caulfield - Dining/ Kitchen/ Living - 1980

Kitchen
noun

1. a room or area where food is prepared and cooked.

Well, yes I suppose it does mean that. However, that doesn't mean that I can't choose to interpret it in my own way - as you would when looking or studying with any art piece.

The kitchen, to me, is a room full of everything.

These days more and more homes are being built with the kitchen also being part of the main living area.
It's where families and friends gather, where you chill out after work in front of the TV, where you play with your children or dog or  cat or elephant.
It is, of course, also a place of cooking. You get your ingredients, work at them, mix them together until you have your final meal. Cooking is a creative art in it's own right and the process is mirrored in creating a fine art piece.

Therefore, KITCHEN means ART.


1. Brown, D. (2013). Genius of Geometry: Patrick Caulfield. [online] The Daily Norm. Available at: https://daily-norm.com/2013/09/02/genius-of-geometry-patrick-caulfield/ [Accessed 18 Jul. 2018].
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Saturday, 14 July 2018

I Decided to go Back to University...but at Home









I've already 'been there and done that' with uni. I studied fashion and textiles at Portsmouth straight out of my A levels back in 2010. I'd always been creative and interested in art but fashion was the sector of it that I preferred. 
However, I struggled endless amounts trying to engage with my course. I thought I would finally have some artistic freedom but it was squashed and bogged down with having to do MILLIONS of toile samples and BILLIONS of rough fashion sketches - I am stubborn and knew how I wanted to do things and it certainly wasn't like that.

In the second year we had 'Enterprise' and that alone nearly made me not take this course. I was actually going to study at 'Esmod' in Dubai where I had been living but decided that the UK would be better as it was my home.
Enterprise was when I really started to get in my element....my ANGRY element. The whole year group consisted of all girls and whilst I like to be girly I don't enjoy all the back stabbing and bitchiness that comes with so many of them and thus always tended to have male FRIENDS. Naturally I fell out with my enterprise group and left them to it and completed that year on my own. Luckily there were some girls on the course that had shared opinions with me and we got along very well.

The final year is the year I shouldn't have even started. I failed it. Thus I ended my 3 years with with an 'HE Diploma in Fashion and Textiles with Enterprise'

The REAL reason I failed was poor mental health from childhood trauma.


It all sounds very negative doesn't it?
That time was a sh*t time and I try to never even think about it.
BUT the outcome has taken me to where I am now. Realising that fashion was never right for me in the first place and that I should have stayed with 'Mr. heArt' all along.
I already work as an artist and illustrator but I want to delve far further into this world, my world, and see what I can unearth. 
From my own experiences I would love to use this degree to help me reach the goal of being an Art Psychotherapist.
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