#autmatism

Today I tried automatism. Automatism is the idea of creating a piece of art without the rational mind, without the conscious mind getting involved. This was a popular method used in Surrealism as artist’s wanted to turn away from the rational and conscious mind. To do this, I primed a piece of newspaper and a piece of cardboard with white acrylic paint and then just a piece of A3 paper. I then used a black/ grey marker pen, closed my eyes and let the pen guide me. I had created what looked like just a giant scribble. However, when I looked at the drawing properly, I noticed that there were shapes and forms within the scribble. I used different coloured markers to highlight these areas. I then got another piece of primed cardboard and drew these shapes and forms onto them using the same colours. I had found shapes that resembled jellyfish, a skull, figures and more. This was a fun experiment to do. 

P2, 3, P4, P5, P7, P8 Postcards for Exhibition. I was inspired by museums and exhibitions to create postcards. Every time I go to an exhibition I always buy postcards of the artwork I had seen. So I decided to make my own postcards for the exhibition (if I were to have one). These would be on the inside of my exhibition. I would have around 40 of each set of postcards so that people could take them. I started off by making a set of 3 which had the smaller paintings on. Each of the three would have 3/9 of the paintings on them. To make them look more appealing I then also added 2 strips of colour to each of them. I decided on primary colours as there’s 3 of them. The strips of colour also made the photos of the paintings stand out more and centralised them.  I then created 2 more sets of 3. These ones are based off of my painting. I’ve hidden features in my painting amongst the drawing for people to find. On the back there would be a question asking “can you find the objects in the painting?” and I would have the answers on the very bottom in small lettering. The objects aren’t in exact proportion as I created them using a free hand technique. This coincides with the game of finding the small paintings in the big painting. The viewer gets to take away a bit of that experience with them.  This set is based on the experiments I did with automatism. I used the same process of letting the pen guide and just going along with where the pen was taking my hand. I added sections of colour to these to add more to them. Once again, the colours randomly chose and so were the areas that I coloured in. However, in my experiments I used paint as a background. If the exhibition were to actually go ahead I may add a set of painted ones. Like my experiments, these were hugely inspired by Joan Miro.