Nikki Tominey Honours Year

The idea of this was to create a cold and depressive appearance. The shades of blue mixed with white and black water marks from painting and then spraying the canvas with water works really well.

The bold san serif text was used to create a seriousness feeling to the overall composition, as it is not a light hearted subject matter, I decided to paint the text very roughly with prussian blue paint and then once it was dry i continued to splat more paint and water onto the canvas in order to create the desired effect.

I tried to cover up most of the text with paint splats and water markings so that the text did start to disappear like the phrase suggests. The phrase watch me as i fade away was used to represent the idea of someone fading into the background, in a state of cold emotion. I did have an idea of fading in the text but this felt like the far too obvious choice for the phrase, so I decided to layer up more different shades of blue, white and black paint splats over the letters in order to create the desired effect, 

The waves of colours in this idea where used to represent the idea of waves and different values of love; which was also the idea for having three different fonts used in this composition as love is different to every person. 

I decided to use colours such as pinks and purples as they represent the different levels of love and passion, and yellow to represent the happiness that we can feel when love occurs. 

The white letters I feel works much better than the original idea of using a darker text as I feel that this helps to create a much softer appearance compared to a dark harsh lettering, which I feel now looking back would really ruin the composition completely. I also decided to draw shapes that can represent love on the canvas and all three of these different symbols appear on the three different typefaces, also helping to convey the idea of different aspects of love. 

This composition I feel works really well. I decided to use darker colours with aspects of gold and bronze throughout in order to create the impression of crazy being displayed as a dark idea. I decided to use a san serif bold font, changing the thickness of the letters in certain areas of the canvas. 

I didn’t want to use a lot of bright colours in this composition as I felt that it does not best represent the concept of craziness. The letters being scattered in a random fashion as well I think also works well, as crazy feelings and actions can happen at any time and anywhere. 

The overall idea of this canvas was the idea of nature being a beautiful aspect of life. The painting style of dabbing heavily different colours together and blending them together was to represent the different colours found in a garden. The different colours of paint were composed in circular areas that could aim to look like flowers, mixed in with greens.

I really liked the development processes of cutting letters out of the paper paintings i created, so I wanted to try this out with a canvas style as well. I really liked the idea of creating two pieces of work out of this idea, one with the cut out canvas letters  displayed on a plain white canvas and one with the whole painting with the cuttings of the letters. 

I really like how both of these final pieces create completely different appearances but both visually interesting and creatively representing a nice view of the word. 

The overall inspiration for this composition was waves from the beach being viewed as relaxing. I picked a scripture decorative font and skewed the angle of the text slightly to create a wave flowing. 

The flowing effect I also wanted to aim to show in the painting style of this word. I decided to use different shades of blue and green with hints of white for highlights and blending in order to create an appearance that could represent waves of water, flowing through letters. 

The typefaces that I was looking for in this composition was one that could appear bouncy and chirpy, in a decorative hand written sort of style but also that could look child like as during different levels of happiness we can act like children. I wanted the composition to be crammed together more than the others because happiness can be an overwhelming feeling sometimes, so to represent this aspect, the letters being much closer together I think works really well.

For the word Envy, the overall appearance that I wanted to create was a elegant and sophisticated approach. The different shades of greens mixed together works well in creating a smoke sort of effect, which I think really works great with the overall look and feel. Green was used in order to represent the aspects of jealousy.

The composition I feel works much better with all of the letters being upper case, compared to lower case like in the development ideas. The painting technique was created by just coating the paint brush in a mixture of colours and then dabbing the paint brush roughly all over the word. 

For the appearance of anger, I wanted to create a sharp angled and zagged feeling, with the way in which the letters are positioned and combined together. I really do prefer the two letters being red compared to the paint splats all over the composition. I feel that this also helps to create a different sort of appearance to the other final outcomes that I have as well.

The idea for the composition was that anger can be based upon different levels and of different strengths, so this was the reason for the letters being combined together but based upon different levels. Only having two of the letters as red I feel works better than having the whole composition as just red. 

These are the final Outcomes for my sculpture part of the project

I also started painting my canvas for ‘Watch me as I fade away’. I wanted a very cold, depressive look to shine through this piece. I projected the words onto the canvas so that I also got the form of the letters as accurate as possible. 

I started off with painting the canvas for love. I really do love how the colours blended together to create this appearance. I think it works really well with the concept that it holds. I drew roughly onto the canvas once the paint was dry, three different styles of the word love, which were to also include different symbols that can represent love. 

After performing some idea testing in my sketchbook, I have picked the final ideas that I am aiming to show through the paintings.  

Love - Pinks purples and yellows all in a swirl style with text above the paintings with shapes and objects that can represent abstract forms of symbolism to love

Cold - Mainly blue, black and white mixed together with paint splats and water paths around the canvas with the text ‘ Watch Me As I Fade Away’ in bold text, but to be covered with more paint so that the text is not so bold and in your face. 

Crazy - Black and gold tones mixed together with lots of the canvas shining through. Bold text positioned in a random formation around the canvas, all facing different ways and portrayed at different angles

These were the results that I gained from the other stencil. As the phrase can be representative of waves of a beach, I used the colour blue as the predominant colour throughout and experimented with mixing with different torches in the process. 

This image was aiming to get an organic display of waves. 

I decided to continue with my idea of using the stencils with the long exposure photography. I decided to try the word ‘Nature’ and also the phrase ‘Wash Me Away’. 

The idea that I had was to capture the words with the stencil and then create it in a composite image to try and give off an image of that word in a habitat that would represent its meaning or give off an expressive display.