#material exploration

A series entitled "The Hollow Men", circa 1988: following a minor fascination for the animation in Pink Floyd's The Wall and a university course on poetry where the professor infected us with her obsession for T. S. Elliott's famous poem of the same name. I had just started experimenting with different drawing media, following my first drawing class and reading my book on Paul Klee and letting go of the restrictions of technical perfection... the series was done on reclaimed packing sheets that feel and look like extra thick card stock, including the slight matte finish which helped the dry pastels to stick to it. This helped me fall in love with messy art materials.

03/10/22

Today we had a graffic design workshop with Sharon Le Gear.

I explored new media's by using newspapers and magazines to make a 2D surface graphic finished piece. I engaged with the learning environment by passing around my composition ideas to my peers for them to choose what photo looks best. They liked this photo because the leaves look like wings.

Primary source photo:

My chosen photo was of one of my peers - (Sasha) hanging from the tree . This suited our project them as they were "Temporarily" hanging in the air.

I didn't get a chance to do the transparent paper wings or the branches made of yarn due to timing.

During the process I communicated with my peers and the lecturer, asking for their opinions and thoughts. I then reflected and adjusted my magazine cuts before glueing them.

For this workshop we split into groups and photographed things around the college relating to the theme temporary, we took four pictures each.

Small scale texture studies

Materials: 

Top- broken glass and acrylic paint on canvas 

Bottom- foil, wood, leaves, straw, rubber, string and acrylic paint on canvas

 Both 8 x 8 inches

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