My third wire sculpture
Posted: December 13, 2014 Filed under: Year 3 Documentation | Tags: Figure drawing, installation, Sculpture, Wire Leave a commentLast week I finally made my third wire sculpture to complete my installation. It is not my favourite one and I think that I rushed it slightly, but I like how it interacts with the environment. Again, I like the subtly of the distortions to the figure and how they all fade into the background.
Monsters in the city
Posted: December 5, 2014 Filed under: Year 3 Documentation | Tags: Cardiff, etching, Figure drawing, painting, printmaking Leave a commentFor my print that did not turn out so well, I decided to paint into it quite a bit to hide the mistakes. Unlike my previous painted print, for this one I have painted the deformed figures with bright and unnatural colours to make them appear out of place. I thought that this would be interesting at first, but now that I look at this painting I think I have ruined it by doing this. I do however like the fact that these figures are in a busy place and are just being overlooked by passers-by. I also like how the rectangles surrounding them isolate them further. From doing this painting, I have learned that my actual prints are best not painted into, instead just the surrounding area. I think that my prints are interesting on their own and just need an environment to go into.
Affordable Art Auction
Posted: November 22, 2014 Filed under: Fundraising, Year 3 Documentation | Tags: colour, Continuous line, Figure drawing, Stained glass Leave a commentTo raise money for our degree show in May, we have organised an art auction for a couple of weeks time. We have all decided to contribute one framed piece of art and hopefully it will raise lots of money! For my piece, I started by drawing a continuous line figure in pink highlighter. I love using bright colours whilst life drawing, but I felt that the drawing alone looked quite insignificant and so I decided to use glass paint on the glass pane of the frame to add another dimension to it. I like all of the colours and how the figure is hidden beneath them.
Wire Sculpture 2
Posted: October 24, 2014 Filed under: Year 3 Documentation | Tags: Drawing, Figure drawing, installation, Wire Leave a commentI finished making another figurative wire sculpture today. I decided to hang this one from the pipe going across my studio space and have also mixed up her body subtly like in my previous one. I really like how my installation is coming together and how these figures interact with their surroundings. I plan to make another one at some point so that I have a nice little installation.
Contorted Figure Painting
Posted: October 22, 2014 Filed under: Year 3 Documentation | Tags: confusion, Figure drawing, Francis Bacon, isolation, painting, Reg Butler 1 CommentFrom my cut-out figure compositions that I made last week, I chose one and made a painted version of it. As I did with a previous painting, I decided to paint using realistic tones so that the contorted form would look more plausible. In this painting I isolated the figure in a room like Francis Bacon did with his paintings. This allowed him to remove any narrative from taking place within his pieces so that they would act purely on sensation. I found that this is a really good technique as it makes the subject seem completely alone and the distortions create a sense of confusion.
I like how this painting has turned out; I think that the contorted shapes work really well in portraying the confusion that I wanted. I also like how the body looks as though it has been pulled about and moulded into position rather than something completely unbelievable. I was thinking about making a painting of a figure that was completely abstracted, but I decided against it as I like how this composition could almost be real. I also like how the shadow is like some sort of monster haunting the figure. It is as though it is holding the figure back and it is something to escape. It makes the figure seem vulnerable.
Reg Butler inspired drawings
Posted: October 2, 2014 Filed under: Contextualisation, Year 3 Documentation | Tags: Figure drawing, Reg Butler 1 CommentWhen looking for some pictures of Reg Butlers ‘Geometry of Fear’ sculptures on Google for my dissertation I came across some of his other figurative sculptures that I had never seen before. I found them really inspiring and they have given me lots of ideas about what to do this year with my practice. At a glance they appear relatively normal looking due to their realistic nature, but they’re not; some parts of their bodies are the wrong way around and are in completely impossible positions. They are quite eerie and I feel as though they portray mans vulnerabilities and the confusions of living in an ever advancing world. The setting of these sculptures also capture the same emptiness as many Francis Bacon pieces, showing humanity to be quite insignificant.
Today I started experimenting with this idea of creating confusion by mixing up body parts. I plan to develop this further during life drawing on Monday and possibly transferring this into sculpture, using wire as I did last year. However, this time I would like my wire sculptures to have a presence so maybe I will make them larger and think about the environment that they will be placed in.
Another painting!
Posted: November 30, 2013 Filed under: Year 2 - Term 1 | Tags: art, Figure drawing, glue gun, Keith Vaughan, Paint Leave a commentI managed to finish a painting that I started a while ago today! Well I did not do much else to it to be honest as I thought that it looks fine as it is! For this piece I used my glue gun drawings as the subject. I started by taking direct influence from Keith Vaughan’s artwork by painting coloured blocks to highlight the shapes within the human figure. I then overlaid these blocks with the actual glue gun drawings. I also painted a larger image of one of the glue gun drawings in black. Then today I poured some wax over some parts, outlining parts of the drawing and also making the piece seem a bit more interesting.
Wire sculptures
Posted: November 27, 2013 Filed under: Year 2 - Term 1 | Tags: David Oliveira, Drawing, Figure drawing, Keith Vaughan, Sculpture, Wire Leave a commentInspired by David Oliveira’s wire sculptures, I created some of my own sculptures using gardening wire. I sculpted them from some life drawings that I made. I feel that they are quite successful, but I now need to think about how to present them. I am currently thinking about either placing coloured shapes inside of them as Keith Vaughan did. Maybe not as bluntly as he did as this is a three-dimensional object that I am dealing with. I could possibly weave something throughout the wire or cover parts as David Oliveira did. This is something that I need to think about.
From these sculptures I have made some drawings. I began to think about what was said during a tutorial about depicting where the subjects were and so I made a drawing of the sculpture as if it were a life model. I was not entirely happy with this drawing as I felt as though I had gone backwards due to the fact that I have been trying to abstract things to get away from my comfort zone.
I liked the idea of placing the sculptures into a space, but not necessarily how I did it in this first instance. What I liked about my other drawings was the uncertainty of them all and so I tried to do this with my next painting. In the background of this I painted someone drawing at an easel in a life drawing studio and then over the top I drew a close-up of one of my sculptures. To me, the sculpture that I used looked as if he was contemplating something and so for this reason I chose to use the colour green in the background. I think that because I used the close-up image, the painting on the whole is a lot more interesting. I feel more positive about this piece.
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Futurism
Posted: November 19, 2013 Filed under: Contextualisation, Year 2 - Term 1 | Tags: art, Continuous line, Drawing, Figure drawing, Futurism, Giacomo Balla, Sculpture, Umberto Boccioni, Wire Leave a commentAfter a tutorial last week, I was advised to look at some Futurist artwork; in particular at how they convey movement. All of the imagery that I have been using of people have been quite random and so perhaps it would look interesting to think about this concept? This is something for me to think about.
As I really liked the effects of my drawings made with a glue gun, I thought of possibly creating some sculptures made from wire. I would shape these sculptures as I did the glue drawings, following a continuous line. However, I think that it would be interesting to sculpt a more three dimensional image, rather than just the flat shape that the glue drawings gave.
Drawing back to the futurist art that I have been looking at, I think that trying to sculpt a moving person would be effective. This would definitely be a challenge, but it would be interesting to see what happens!
Drawing/painting from glue gun drawings!
Posted: November 6, 2013 Filed under: Year 2 - Term 1 | Tags: art, Braque, Cubism, Drawing, Figure drawing, Paint, Picasso, shadows 6 CommentsLast week I started to draw and paint from the shadows created from my hanging glue gun drawings. I have found this really fun to do! I am quite excited at the moment as before this, I had not done much abstract art work. I love all of the shapes and patterns that the shadows cast and how the different shades of the shadows create depth.
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