#two week taster

Evaluation - Illustration 

After the painting outcome, I like this final outcome second-most. The bright colours are very nice to look at, and I think that I was able to find a good balance of colours used. as much as there may be very dominant colours I feel that there is a least one interesting focal area at each of the four corners to keep the piece more of, an artwork to be looked at as a whole rather than just having one focal point. What I’m most proud of is how I found a way to capture a way to visually represent how I feel about music (If it is not clear from the artwork, I was drawing a vintage radio at different angles). The myriad of colours to represent the various feelings a song can make you feel. The alternating colour to represent the idea of alternating genres and their off-beat approach to music. The black and grey looks like a vinyl record.

There are obvious downsides like, it’s not final at all, by a long shot.There were other techniques that I wanted to explore other than watercolour and electric tape, but again the time given for each final outcome doesn’t give me enough time to have thought of that back then.

Evaluation - Painting

Out of all the final outcomes I am most happy with the painting outcome. I feel that it is the most complete looking. I'm really happy with how the the water colour blocks look; they're subtlety done enough to not block the whole of the close-up of the face. I like that the face is also very strong, the contrast between its black and white design with the block’s various colours help make each aspect identifiable.

One of the biggest  problem with this project (something I that I’ll mention with the other drawing projects) is the time constraints not only by the class time we were given, but also the amount of work that I placed upon myself. I definitely believe that this piece was not as complete as I felt it should be.

Artist Research - Mark Demsteader

Manchester born figurative artist. I haven’t found much about his personal life that inspired his style. However it is still very inspiring

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Artist Research - Joe Fedderson & Stanley William Haytor

Joe Feddersen is a mix media artist, with work extending from paintings to photography.

Shard #2 - 2001

The pieces that I found to be most interesting are the ones that have very colourful and intricate patterns. And with good reason, as it seems that many feel the same way. The Geometric shapes have a lot of impact on the composition, and the colours making a good visual connection to Feddersen’s intention to base his works on his native Maerican heritage. The use of the natural brown and orange really helps.

Stanley William Haytor was an England born surrealist and abstract expressionist painter and printmaker. He is an innovator of his time, even having many famous artists being taken under his wing at his own founded studio, Atelier 17. I was always so interested in how he was so well regarded.

Deliquescence - 1935

His work from 1930′s onwards has taken a massive step into abstract expressionism and into the development of viscosity painting; this is where the artist will put aside their need for structure and consciousness to create a very free and easy flowing art piece. The very fluid lines and various splashes of colour help with this idea.

Plastic Cups - Evaluation

Like the first task, I feel that it is successful with expressing the time-based aspect well, due to a very clear and interesting sequence. However I definitely feel that this task is undoubtedly beneath in both style and substance compared to the “language task”

First of all, What did I like about the final piece? I think that I’m definitely getting used to the basics of structuring a sequence with a linear progression, and this piece is a very good example of that. It’s very clear, the sequence, starting with the cup with bright, distinct colours. It then becomes torn and reforms with a harder shell, subduing the colours slightly. Again, it illustrates the sequence well. But the biggest success, in my opinion, is the photo-shopped hands, mixed with black and white acrylic paint. I’ve learnt from the past and the photo-shop is definitely an improvement compared to the last task. 

Personal Task - notes Nature vs Nurture

It was a very interest talk to be sure, when one of my lecturers, Leon, pointed me out to exploring the idea of nature vs nurture. Little did I know that it would become a big basis for the development of my project.

The concept itself was very clear; two ways to learn, two ways to process situations etc. In connection to my theme, “change”; natural change comes from, growing up, it just happens, it’s never something that you can completely control. Change through nurture can exist through exposure to an environment. You grow into that situation and eventually learn to just live with it.

I had to make sure that I was able to express both ideas equally. I feel that, there is a balance to how most people change, and I want to express that balance between, natural and nurtured character building.

Core Values - Evaluation (pictures soon)

For this task The class was given eight themes; sexuality, gender, race, politics, religion, faith. I couldn't really connect to any of them.

My inability to stick to one theme became the basic idea for my sequence. Never settling to one thing. I don’t want to let one aspect of my personality/history be my defining self. I’m very dissatisfied with the idea of being just one type of person.

I really like the concept that went behind this sequence.

Everything else wasn’t so good. It felt like throughout this project, everything was borne by the desperation to move on or just to create a somewhat feasible attempt at developing an idea at the very short time I gave myself. I didn’t like the final piece that I created, I didn’t like how the photo-shops turned out and I really didn’t like the photos I took. it was  a very difficult task to undertake and it really took a lot out of me, even though it wasn’t necessarily a over-bearing one to handle.