Art and more Art……………
So Tom (art buddy) decided to bring this spool from the skips and just left it; it has been in the studio for ages. My first semester project is coming to an end so I’m producing work for assessment, it’s round so – as I have an obsession with circles – I decided to paint it. It’s been called many things of course the obvious being a table but I cannot come to the conclusion as to what it is. And this is the art studio on a clean day!
So as I said I didn’t like my orphist painting so I chopped the painting into little cubes and I much prefer the boxes and cubes to the original painting. It just comes to show that a bad idea doesn’t necessarily mean you have to discard the work.
So a while ago I was really into origami and started making complex structures. I felt lazy so I had lots of flyers from my freshers fair, didn’t want throw them away so I made an acorn. So on the day of presentation it fell apart, but I really liked the circular pattern in the middle of the structure. I do plan to make a vase though so i’ll have to research (youtube lol) how to start my base, as I feel that’s what let me down.
So as I have litres of paint left I’m just thinking of ideas of what to do next. My inspiration came in the form of discarded cassette tapes, thrown away by the music department as they are currently redecorating their spaces. I was originally going to use the tape on the inside but the shells looked cool, and with litres of paint just next to me… It was meant to be! So I dipped the cassettes in the paint and grabbed another off-cut from the sculpture shop and this is the outcome. I want to explore this too, so I have a feeling I’ll be very busy next year 😛 Ha and I now use my hall room as my workshop, it’s not home so I don’t mind the mess 😛
Alex (another great art buddy of mine) and I paid a visit to Orinoco (a local scrap-store) and got lots of free paint. I opened up our choices and these five colours looked good so I started painting an off cut I got from our sculpture workshop. I’m not a fan of this painting so I plan to do something with this.
My second attempt of creating scoobies on a bigger scale. I used various materials from electrical rope to natural fibers. The end result is not bad but I still want to make and even bigger scoobie O_O” So I’ll need to invest in some rope, which is ridiculously expensive… OH art 
So from earlier we created a modroc cast of the lower part of our faces. The last technique we learnt involved adding shellac to the negative part of the cast creating a water sealed layer which we could fill with plaster creating a different type of cast. This was my end result and something told me it needed to be black so yeah.
Had another workshop and the craftsman in me couldn’t resist making more of these boxes. Just needed some kind of design, luckily I’m writing an essay on Robert Delaunay. Particularly his work from 1920 onward, I’m a big fan of Orphism so the pattern just came naturally. And I swear circles are taking over my art.
So part of my creative process involves some level of craft. I remember doing so many scoobies back in the secondary so I thought I’d start doing more again. I used the wool lying around in our 1st year studio which is completely covered with junk. I’ll post evidence of the messiness, but hey it’s all part of the creative act ( MARCEL DUCHAMP O_O”). My aim is to make bigger scoobies O_O”
Haha well I’m adding more paintings to my work in progress, this painting is of a good friend of mine. We took a series of photos only relying on his lighter as the light source; I chose my favorite one and well painted it 😛 I just used black for this (and a bit of white for the highlights) as I relayed on the canvas for the other tones. Poor guy suffered a burn for the sake of my art, who says art doesn’t come at a cost >:) This will be a series of paintings I feel as I hope to end with the use of colour. I skipped the imprimatura stage as I liked the white of the canvas purely for its tonal value.
A2 Acrylic on canvas
Learning so many new techniques, LOVING UNI 😀 So we had a casting crash course last Friday and our tutor Derek Gave us a short introduction to Modroc casting. We each had to do our partners lips; I was curious as to how my lips would turn out, and not one to brag but I easily had a ‘noticeably’ fuller lip cast than my peers but hey the outcome was AWESOME thanks to my partner’s (Alice) Modroc applying skills 😛
This image is the wax positive of the Modroc cast.
So I bought a Wacom Intuos 5 and fell in love with the pad before I could even do anything on it, it’s so CUTE!!!! 😀 Any who, my sister wanted to see my work and I promised I’d do some kinda portrait. Of course it had to be centered on the old master flow I’m on now for some reason. So I did a sketch, taking my inspiration from Da Vinci’s anatomical sketches. I then used gimp (as I’m saving up for Photoshop and Corel painter 😥 ) to edit the portrait the way i wanted and for a 2 hours mess around I’m pretty happy with the results 😀 Can’t wait to do more stuff on my wacom tablet 😀 😀 O_O”
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