My Space.

It has took me about a month to get my studio space looking how I want it. I took photos of my space developing from the white walls at the start of term to the busy walls. We were told at the beginning of the course to make our spaces personal/inspirational to ourselves. Therefore I hammered some hooks into my wall and strung up photos of family and friends as inspiration. I then put photos of artists work and my own photography onto my walls. I also have two shelves on my wall full of bits and pieces from bolts and nuts to bottles/vases.

Book Project.

We were given a project to create our own book based upon an art book and novel. I based mine on a photography book based on light paintings and a novel called 'The Crumple Zone.' I decided to take my own photographs to be the main part of my book. Setting my camera to a long shutter speed resulted in my own light paintings. I printed three copies of the same image, one on acetate, paper and used the cello tape effect on the last copy. This is the order I decided to put my images into the book. After the three images I incorporated images out of the photography book I based it on. To incorporate the novel I selected specific sentences/words that reflect my photographs. I then stuck these on top of the paper copies of my photos. To put the pages altogether I used a hole punch to create holes in each page then used bolts to bind it together.


 These photographs to the left are a few selected pages from my
 book. The image at the bottom of this section shows the front                                                                and back pages of my book, which are made out of cello tape. 

Improvement Drawings.

Above is a quick sketch I did at the beginning of the course from a still life installation. To improve the piece I covered it with a wash of black ink then drew the still life over the top again with white charcoal. To create the look of the wool strung up on the table I used actually wool so you could get the visual and physical look of it. 


 

To the right is a sketch I created in the style of artist Kurt Jackson. I stood outside and did some life sketches of bushes/trees and people standing in between. To improve my drawing covered the bushes and trees with white emulsion and waited for it to dry. I then used a paper towel to wipe black ink over the emulsion which created a scratched into effect because of the way the emulsion dried. I used newspaper to collage the bottom of the page then used a slightly wet sponge to drag some of the ink across the page       which resulted in the light gray look to the top and bottom of the page. 

Negative Space Work.

This piece was from my first day of Art Foundation. We were focusing on negative space from a still life installation. I created the lines using pencil then added a collage of newspaper around the edges of the lines focusing on the space between the objects 'negative space.'

Large Still Life Pieces.

We were set a task to create 15 still life paintings in our sketchbooks and 5-10 big pieces. Working in a similar way to artist Ben Nicolson here are a few of my larger pieces.

 The top left painting I did was one of my first ones, I created squares of paint similar to what Ben Nicolson did. I then painted from the still life over the top of the paint and splattered ink onto it. I wanted to do something different with this piece so I cut it up into similar sized pieces. I then picked out my favourite sections of the painting and photocopied them so they were bigger. After this I stuck the little pieces and the photocopied sections all together mix matched and added bits of cardboard that I worked into with a scalpel. To the left is my final piece which I think went quite well.

This is the first painting that I did. For the background I tea stained some paper then started off with gray acrylic painting the still life installation. I then used brown acrylic and black ink to draw different parts of the still life over the top. This then created different layers to the painting which consists of thick line drawings.

 With this painting I stuck with a colour palette of black and white. I used white emulsion for the background and created squares of colour with black ink and emulsion. Then I created line drawings from the still life, using white emulsion over the black squares then ink over the white emulsion. I used black ink to outline the whole drawing.  This created a negative look to the paintings, using opposite colours that work together.

Studio Space.

This is my studio space at college. I am currently working on it to make it more busy and personal to me, so it will eventually be a calm place to work in.

Drawings.

Here is a drawing I created from an installation we set up. I drew 3 drawings one ontop of the other creating different layers and using different mediums. I used Charcoal, Pastel and Ink.

Image #1 Of Own Space

Ready to start decorating my space.

Own Space

These are a few little vases that I brought today to put in my little space at college. We have one week today to fill our own space with things not only reflecting our personality but containing influences using differents mediums/materials and artists.
I am thinking of putting up a couple of shelves and putting different sizes and colour vases, filling them with different objects. I also want to attach string from the walls and hang things off of it including different photographers images showing the route that i'm thinking about going down and hopefully give me inspiration. I like working in a busy but tidy environment so hopefully my final space will reflect that aspect of my personality.

First Task

With a task set for our first day starting Foundation I have chose to bring along as well as my snow globe (previous post) a photo album. Although it is not physically as big as me, conceptually it is. The album is full of family and memories, they show a timeline of people from older generations to my generation thus making it an object that is bigger then me. Which is what the task is about.
What we will be doing with our objects we all take in has not yet been said.

Task #1

For our first task we have been told to take in objects bigger than ourselves. This can be either physically bigger than ourselves or a small object unfolding into a bigger material. Or we can also take in an object that just has a big personality.
I wondered what I could pick to take in for this task when I found a New York snow globe that I brought when I went on holiday. I thought this would be perfect as although it is small it has a big personality as it captures New York within an apple shaped globe. Referring to its nickname 'the big apple.' Showing a small object with a big personality within its apple shape bubble.

Signac

Signac.

Artist Paul Signac creates paintings that resemble cubism in the way that he uses squares to create his painting.
I saw this piece of art at a gallery in Sete, France called 'Musee Paul Valery,' I visited this gallery when I was on holiday there.
This piece was one of my favourites out of the gallery, I loved the colours that he used and how he actually created the painting with dabs of paint creating squares.

Mia Pearlman

 Mia Pearlman.

http://miapearlman.com/NewMuseum.htm

Above is a link to a time lapse video by Pearlman and her art work. Influences from this site would be to project a video of my work progressing onto the walls/my area. Depending on what my final project will consist of depends on what would be put into the video which will reflect on my work and the influences/inspirations behind it.

Cornelia Parker & Sarah Sze.

Cornelia Parker:
                          Cold Dark Matter an Exploded View.

This body of work by Cornelia Parker shows negative space perfectly. This work is similar to Sarah Sze work (image below) as she also hangs objects off of different things and using different materials to do so.
For our Art Foundation taster day we looked at a number of different images of Sze's then worked together to create a similar setting. We had different materials such as wool, bolts, wire etc to create a Sze's style piece. I chose to put bolts onto fishing wire which I then attached to a piece someone else had created. As there was many of us working on this piece you could see it growing and transforming in front of you. This would be something I would like to experiment and try again covering spaces with different materials and focusing on the negative spaces between them, creating drawings and photographs from the creation and experimenting with different screen printing etc that could link in with the work that I have created.

  

The image above to the right is of the little creation we created as a group on our taster day in the style of Sarah Sze. 

Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy.

Goldsworthy is an artist that I love, using natural materials to create beautiful images. His images are all about nature and putting things together to create something new. These 4 images I have selected are some of my favourites as they show different materials that he has used along with different colours he has meshed together, incorporating the use of reflections also. (above) 

I would love to create my own natural images using different materials that I gather, resulting in these visually pleasing photographs. Goldsworthy's work includes both art and photograph which is a big influence on myself as I wish to incorporate both art forms together when it comes to developing/experimenting with different ideas for my own project.

Dan Mountford - Double Exposure

Dan Mountford. 

I love double exposure images and would love to incorporate this into my own work/project. Using double exposure can create very intricate and interesting photographs, using numerous layers of photo adds to the visual look of the final piece. I am inspired by Mountfords double exposures as not only does he just simply put an image over the previous one (top image) he also uses two images double exposed over one another to create a more detailed interesting photograph to view. Using this technique gives you the choice to portray two meanings/things within the one photograph.

Charlie Adlard and Tony Moore

Charlie Adlard and Tony Moore.

 Both these artists/illustrators have worked on a number of different things, the images above and below are all from my favourite graphic novels 'The Walking Dead.' They both draw differently but together they have made Robert Kirkmans stories come to life. The harsh tones and shadows of the above drawings are from Adlards pen and the light sketches below are that of Tony Moore's.

 Similar to Ansel Adams photographs, these drawings are black and white which adds to the aesthetics of the images and the comic book as a whole. Below are two drawings one the original black and white the other a rare colour drawing.  

            

Black and White vs Colour. 

                                                             

Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams.

Landscape is probably my favourite genre to work in, Adam' work is an influence of mine as I love how he has managed to capture the different scenes despite the somewhat dismal looking weather. His perfect composition and the black and white editing creates beautiful images that I wish to take inspiration from.