Lye Valley
I haven’t posted in a while so I decided today will be the day to break my silence. Well 1st year for me is officially over and I plan to coast till the new term, when what I do in art actually counts. Do I feel like I just wasted a year, YES! but hey what’s there to complain about, got a show coming up in June and a 4 month break to unwind (work my butt off) and prepare for what’s next to come. So I took a stroll in the Lye Valley forgetting my Wellingtons again -_- but in all the photos I took weren’t all that bad, now that the sun has finally showed itself I can take photos the way nature intended. NEARLY BROKE A SWEAT TOO! oh England your bi polar weather does have its days.
UCA :)
Good memories
Much Better
I do appreciate a good quality photo 😀 this is how the final piece looks like in the daytime, Nikon you truly are from Jesus (Baptist member frantically fanning herself) PRAISE! .
Even I’m Surprised
For the life of me I thought I had tomorrow to finish my project but I got the feeling that I’m done. I wanted to add more to this, and yes the nature of this work is that I could allow it to expand if I felt like it. But I’m teaching myself to leave my art when I feel it’s done, I have the tendency to overwork my paintings adding too much when all I needed was already there. This is how it looks like at night I’m yet to see the final piece in the morning, and I will live up to my promise, I’m taking my bridge camera with me. 😀 SO HAPPY!!!!
Getting There
So I’ve literally just got back from the studios and I’m exhausted! I wanted to get the main bit done. See I find that doing the hardest tasks first allows me to coast and enjoy the rest of the painting process. I’m so happy the worst is now behind me, now it’s just a case of putting the finishing touches. The student in me was ready to order a pizza but Dominos is shut -_- just when I needed them, and I’m the type of person that only has stuff that needs cooking for more than 30 minutes. Oh well, late night cooking, it’s not like I haven’t done it before 😛 So as you can see the base painting was actually a template for my Chitenge design, I was going to stencil the whole design but the time to find spray paint was not even worth stressing about. It looks like I have kept to some sort of rule, I’ve actually painted the whole of this part of the composition without relying on masking. Yup I went old school, ruler and a steady hand. The rest will be masked, as I really don’t see myself finishing on time if I don’t. Call it cheating? I really don’t care I’m claiming artistic license.
Let the Fun BEGIN!
So today was the day I FINALLY GOT TO PAINT MY WORK! It felt great to see the first coat of paint go on the wall. Now my art is all about the layers (no reference to Shrek) I always start with the base material and work my way to the end. To see the first bit of work go up had me feeling emotional. For the first time I’m making a personal connection with my artwork (I mean I always have but it was always HATE, as I would find myself stuck on technique) But this time I’m letting the work evolve. Of course I have an idea of the end result, but this time I don’t have to care about making the image in my head. The art should just flow (OH JESUS I’m a HIPPY) So here’s what I have done so far. I am still keeping with traditional values though, starting from dark and working to light 😀 Sorry for the bad image quality, my laziness allows me to only have my phone camera at hand.
18:00 Walk towards Headington Campus
New Beginning
SO the 1st part of my project is yet to begin as the space I chose to do my work was……… Let’s say it was well used. -_- So as a follow up to the previous post I decided to go and paint the walls to give me the blank canvas I need to start making whatever needs to be made in that space. The vibe I’m getting is good, I’ve got some sample collages to work from so now it’s a case of JUST DOING IT (HA nike you got nothing on me I just switched up your slogan) So my parcel from amazon was indeed an extension pole, 5m of steel that allows me to do what I want without having to use a ladder (which by the way I hate with a passion, nothing to do with a fear of falling just can’t stand having to go up and down the stupid thing) So what I thought would take a good 4 days of painting only took two! We thank you Jesus for the wonders of simple ingenuity that changes lives in dramatic ways. I couldn’t help but laugh every time I picked up the extension pole, it didn’t help that I was listening to the remix of Make it Rain (the vision of R Kelly singing about making it rain) 😀 The gallery shows some of the art I had to cover up It’s a shame too but hey. Changes. Oh and it’s all thanks to Gareth who ordered the paint 😀
Preparation
2nd Semester has been a crazy experience for me. I’ve experienced more than I thought I’d need to in the space of 3 months, now of course change SUCKS with a passion but if it’s all for the best then WHY NOT? My art will no longer be the same, from now on I’m taking a massive leap into a world I have secretly (unless you really know me 😛 ) shunned. See I have never been afraid to be CONTEMPORARY I just don’t like the labels that often come with that field of work (and being of African descent ‘Afro Art’ is my new identity -_- ). I’m learning to not think too much and just create what comes to mind (only problem I have is that is takes time for me to know that a work is finished) So there’s been a lot of tongue biting. I can explain the flaws in my artwork BECAUSE THAT’S ALL I EVER SEE >:'( it’s not judgement on anyone’s style of work, it’s me criticising my work nothing more, nothing less. It is true what they say, YOU ARE YOUR WORST CRITIC! But hey life goes on I could stress about it but the last thing I need is to focus on what was, pshhhh NAh I’m good, I choose to do what I feel like doing. SO as the title for this post implies; I’m getting ready to set up my final show for the 1st year 😀 The scale of the work is the challenge, but hey I’ll never learn unless I just do it (No nike you cannot claim copyright I’m an art student the least you could do is give me a pair of Hi Tops). Of course I have to have the right tools in order to do what I want. We thank God for Amazon. 😀 😀 😀
Morning Dew
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