Feedback- January 31st

After having a discussion with my Fine Art teacher, I received some useful feedback about what direction, I should be working in and how I can continue to develop my ideas. Sally was impressed with my sketchbook work, and really liked the idea of using newspapers and headlines to create a collage with my sketches. This gave me the idea of creating some bigger pieces of work in the same sort of style. Furthermore, I am going to be creating some bigger drawings of my partially- painted portraits, which will hopefully be successful.

As you can see below, I have begun to collage onto an A1 piece of paper. The white area, which I have left bank, will be where I am going to be sticking my portrait onto.

Grundy Gallery, Blackpool- 6th October

On Thursday, we went for a visit to Blackpool, where we got the chance to look around the Grundy Gallery at the Illuminations Archive Exhibition, which I found to be fairly interesting and pleasing to the eye. Our tour guide, informed us that there was in fact only one piece in the exhibit which was technically a neon light, with an actual cathode, gas- discharge running through it. That piece was by Tracey Emin and personally I found it to be the most visually interesting in the first room which we went into, however I was more attracted to the light, which was simply a full-stop as I thought it was quite humorous and I didn’t initially notice it, yet it had more of an impact to me compared to everything else.

As you can see above, there is a clear contrast between these two very opposed pieces of work; Tracey Emin’s lights are certainly, visually interesting yet I still like the concept of the full- stop just as much.

As I moved through the gallery, I came across another piece, which really stood out to me and for some unknown reason, I really liked it and I wouldn’t be able to tell you why, apart from the fact it reminded me of a Happy Meal.

KEITH SONNIER- Pictogram II (1980)

After we had finished exploring the gallery, we went to the Blackpool front to capture some images and gather some valuable research for Document The Day. I felt that the deprived area and the masses of Fish and Chip shop’s, could provide me with some rich material.

 

After having a look through the photos, which I had taken, I created a humorous triptych, which I thought was effective. Unfortunately, the image quality isn’t great but I like the idea of the camera panning out to the last picture, which has a more melancholy tone to it; one wouldn’t know that the Blackpool rock is labelled with offensive words such as “old slapper, big tits” and “pervert”.

Below; are some more photos, which I took from Blackpool and as you can see I came across  more neon lights which looked interesting, and in general- LOTS OF LIGHTS!

 

Roundabouts (VISUAL COMMUNICATION)- 4th of October

Jo gave us some information about what Visual Communication is about and we got to look at some work from previous foundation years. After the induction, we began to make some collages and as you can see below, I began by experimenting.

(Above: I must say that I prefer the left collage to the right as its visually more engaging and I like the stamp text which reads “UPSIDE DOWN”, upside down.

I really have been inspired in the past by a Artist called Yi Chen, who creates amazing and abstract pieces of work. As you can see below, my collage does have some considerable comparisons with the artwork below. I visually love the misshapen heads and distorted ears, which I have hand-stitched along with the hair and I hope to go on and add more stitching into the whole piece, as well as a range of vibrant colours to the background. I will also create some oil paintings in the style of Yi Chen.

After doing Vis- Com, we got the chance to attend another life- drawing lesson, which I was happy about as more practice was due.We were showed an interesting rule to use for  life drawing, and I think it really helped me. Overall, I am happy with the progress I am making when it comes to drawing from real- life, and I hope to improve with more and more practice.

 

 

 

 

Developmental Studies – 29th September

On the 29th of September, we got the chance to catch up with some work and so I decided to stitch onto a monoprint, which I created the week prior. As you can see, it is fairly abstract and I liked the idea that the original photograph, which I took had been transformed into a visually brighter and more jubilant piece.