Week 7

11/01/2016-17/01/2016
Painting Workshop Part 2
Summary:

This was the second week of the painting workshop, however I was absent the entire week as I was severely unwell, I therefore was only able to produce one painting of the ten in this week. I chose to focus on rule 3, a non art surface. For which I decided to paint onto the glass face of a broken light box, which had annoyed me therefore I just started working in an expressive manor with no real sense of what I wanted for the final outcome except for an annoyed face. I have documented the stages of this acrylic painting below.

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 Below is the finished painting, Ultimately I think that this is one of my more successful paintings, not just because of the final outcome, but because of the process. I simply began painting allowing the brush and the layer of paint to build the image while I simply stood their and allowed the creative process to take control. I really engaged with this piece due to the freedom and loose nature of the expressive style.

 

Week 6

04/01/2016-10/01/2016
Painting Workshop Part 1
Summary:

First week back, and I have started my second advanced workshop for this term, for the next three weeks I shall be focusing on painting. In this week, we focused on working with coloured acrylics, working from observation of a selection of coloured objects. I began by looking at the purple objects. I found this exercise as more of a reintroduction to painting as I haven't painted for almost a year. Therefore I wasn't focusing on the quality of my work simply the process of painting itself for my first two studies I used a realistic style painting what I saw as accurately as I could.  This is my second painting on an A3 primed wooden board, I was starting to find this method of painting, the focus on detail, laborious to the point where the creative process felt like a chore rather than an engage able task. Therefore I decided to try painting in a far looser and more expressive style. Therefore I chose to paint a yellow scarf, which interested me because when dropped at random the folds and creases in the fabric create an original shape/form.

 

First week back after the Christmas break, and I have started my second advanced workshop for this term, for the next three weeks I shall be focusing on painting. Week 1, in this week, we focused on working with coloured acrylics, working from observation of a selection of coloured objects that we each brought in and arranged together in separate piles divided by colour yellow, green, blue etc...

Below these are the objects I found that morning and chose to paint, simple objects yet varied in texture and shape, some are matte and rough, others are shiny and smooth.



I began by looking at the purple objects. I found this exercise as more of a reintroduction to painting as I haven't painted for almost a year. Therefore I wasn't focusing on the quality of my work simply the process of painting itself for my first two studies I used a realistic style painting what I saw as accurately as I could as shown below. Image 1, this is the purple collection of objects which I focused on first.

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 Below this is my second painting on an A3 primed wooden board, I was starting to find this method of painting, the focus on detail, laborious to the point where the creative process felt like a chore rather than an engage able task.  

 Therefore I decided to try painting in a far looser and more expressive style. Therefore I chose to paint a yellow scarf, which interested me because when dropped at random the folds and creases in the fabric create an original shape/form.

After the Workshop I began looking at the primary painting workshop project brief, which presented the task of creating ten paintings one for each of ten rules:

1.  A painting visibly including letters, words, numbers or instructions.
2. A painting that is ephemeral.
3. A painting made on a non art surface (not canvas, fine art paper r new wood)
4. A painting featuring more than one visual language or style.
5. A painting of an ending.
6. A painting consisting of two or more separate components or surfaces.
7. A painting with a glitch (interference, disruption, interruption.)
8. A painting made using one or more non-art substance as paint or with at least one object attached to it.
9. A painting made with pressure.
10. A painting in which the frame or framing device plays an integral role and is non-rectangular.

Unfortunately I was unable to continue working this week after the workshop as I fell very ill and was only able to start working halfway through the following week.