Painted Clay Panels

These are the small clay panels I used to create skin textures in, earlier in my project. On debating whether to paint them or leave them blank, I thought painting them may add more depth but I didn’t want the paint to cover some of the texture. I have photos of the pure clay pieces so I saw no harm in painting them.

Following my last efforts at this piece, i decided to add the swirly ‘smoke sketches’ over the entirety of the flat ‘sunset’ i created. I realised while making this piece that i like when my works suggest at something figurative but are abstracted into smaller blocks of colour or shapes so that it is not completely obvious what i am portraying. I didn’t like in this piece i did the separation of the line and colour blocking, as the line should look like a shape in itself and integrate with the shapes. Though i experimented with dimension here, i think i prefer when every block of colour seems at the same distance from the viewer, as it make the overall piece look more graphic and abstract.

I began trying to bring to the surface the colours of the sunset i created from the general places they appeared earlier. However, i wanted to reimagine the colours as shapes that went along with the general direction of the sketchy lines i had implemented. 

Here i added in the red tones as smaller shapes.

I did have a photography studio booked out but due to the Coronavirus Pandemic, I decided to ask my models to take their own photographs and send them to me via social media (I would like to state all of my models are over the age of 18 and understand my project. I also have concent from all of them stating I can do as I please with these photographs). I found this interesting because some girls had their photographs already in black and white while some had colour which may help you find out a bit more information, about a person. One thing I noticed though is that all my models wore makeup! Even in modern society girls where makeup to feel confident and pretty. One of the many things that has not changed over the years. I replicated Barbara Kruger while expressing one phrase I really hate because her photos tell one story and the text another. That is what I wanted to accomplish. These girls are going out, at work, or simply relaxing but they all have ‘she was asking for it’ written across their photographs. This ties the series together whist also stating no matter how she looks, what she wears she is never ‘asking for it’! This got me thinking, if I was to change the photo content for bodies instead of faces would that make my message more powerful?

I began by doing artist research, I want to explore each medium and how different artists work in various ways with the same materials.

Artists who work with textile/fibre:

Sheila Hicks - Fibre

Alighiero e Boetti - Mixed media

Faith Ringgold - Textiles

Judith Scott - Fibre

El Anatsui - Found materials

Nick Grove - Textiles

Alexandra Kehayoglou - Yarn

Billie Zangewa - Silk fabrics

Faig Ahmed - Mixed materials

Pia Camil - Discarded fabrics

Artists who work with sculpture:

Damián Ortega - Economic/Material exchange

Lee Sookyung - Mismatched porcelian

Antony Gormley - Large sculptures

Lynda Benglis - Wax and latex

Anish Kapoor - Large sculptures

Tara Donovan - Mixed media

Marc Quinn - Contemporary

Rachel Whiteread - Instillation art

Richard Serra - Large sheets of metal

Jeff Koons - Reproduction of banal objects

Artists who work with photography:

David Hockney - Printmaking, painting

Hannah Höch - Collage

Kurt Schwitters - Found objects

Raoul Hausmann - Collage, poetry

Man Ray - Assemblage, film

Eileen Agar - Painting

Joseph Cornell - Found materials

Nancy Spero - Paper

John Stezaker - Conceptual art

Jesse Treece - Images

Annegret Soltau - Photographs of her own face, fibre

Artists who work with printmaking:

Eduardo Paolozzi - Sculpture, art

Andy Warhol - Painting, silkscreen

Pablo Picasso - Mixed media

Rembrandt - Painting, drawing

Ernst Haeckel - Print

Robert Raushenberg - Assemblage

Hokusai - Woodblock printing

Shepard Fairey - Stencilling

Jim O’Raw - Screen print

Artists who work with drawing:

Lesley Halliwell - Spirograph

Naomi Kendrick - Wax crayons

Leonardo da Vinci - Watercolours on wet plaster

Adonna Khare - Pencil

Anna Barriball - Pencil, ink

Julian Beever - Chalk

Wassily Kandinsky - Oil paint on canvas

Ulrike Müller - Pencil, spray paint

Richard Tuttle - Mixed media

Frank O’hara Poems by Willem de Kooning - A book containing sixty drawings by 30 American arists.

Artists who work with painting:

Agnes Martin - Mixed media

Robert Delaunay - Oil on canvas

Gerald Chodak - Acrylic paint

Catherin Pickop - Coffee residue

Michele Tragakiss - Paint, glaze

Walter Poole - Silver nitrate deposit

Marti White - Mixed media

Helen Kagen - Oils and acrylics

Jackson Pollock - Drip painting

Drawing from my own photography of Manchester. I used watercolour combined with the inspirational style of artist Sunga Park. To create these drawings i used fine liner to draw out a quick ink sketch of the buildings around manchester city centre. I then applied brown and blue water colour which blended with the black ink, unintentionally creating tone. Park's work are on a much larger scale than mine and focus on whole buildings where as i have scaled down and in some cases attempted to add more detail to the structures. A lot of the deetail became blurred once i applied water so to develop this further i plan on working into them with either fineliner or direct mono printing to add more deetail. The paper i have worked with is hand made cotton paper which doesnt bobble when mass amounts of water is applied like cartridge paper does.