Fine Art

This was a little activity I done when I was attending Claire Potters masterclass. As I mentioned in my blog post about that class I was really nervous about doing something way out of my comfort zone but it had to be done and I was so happy I did!! I am so pleased with the outcomes and I believe this has a lot of potential if I was to carry it out more professionally. I know I explained it in my blogpost before but I will briefly explain again. I like looking into the psychological effects of many things in life but since I do art, I wanted this semester to be about colours. Sounds simple I know. However, I wanted to go beyond and challenge that. What if I was to manipulate it? To change it? There isn't much science behind our associations with emotions and colours. This activity challenged the brains thought processes and what happens when I inflict new meanings. I  personally feel like I should look further into this as I hold a great interest in it. It does hold a lot of po...

I attended the M. Halvorsen lecture but I could not focus on this lecture at all and looking back I could not even begin to tell you what it was about or what the artist done. Usually I would explain because the artist is boring, or lacks presentational skills but this time I think it was me and that day for some reason I had a hard time focusing. Again I am pretty sure this was a personal problem but maybe it could of been because of the artist that they didn't hold my interest enough? At least it has made me more aware of my actions and that if ever talking about my practise that I keep it interesting enough to keep the audience engaged. I will attach the little notes I did take in this lecture. Sadly I did not attend Chris Altons and Jade Montserrat's lectures. I have still to get around and research them for myself, when I do I will maybe do a quick post on them on here. 

This is just a quick video showing off my book. It is isn't a sketchbook, more of blank pages were I get to spill out my thoughts and ideas. This helps me develop and think through ideas I have or helps me develop my practise. I find it very helpful spilling all my thoughts and paper and visually preparing them in a way that suits me. In a weird way it really stimulates my brain and gets things on the go. The blank page allows me to write as much as I want or need, sketch and doodle until my heart is content and I am happy. It can also be used just to calm me down and get my thoughts straight. This method this year has helped me greatly. I have had many ideas this semester which is great but it was hard focusing on one when I needed to and so I would go to my book to help that. This is definitely a method of mental note taking I would like to continue in the future as it helps me eliminate ideas that may of wasted my time to begin with and/or help develop my practise as a who...

Like I mentioned in my previous post, painting will always be a part of my practise no matter how far I stray. Instead of worrying what to paint, I got very expressionistic. I was heavily inspired by Jackson Pollock and his "action" painting. Although I have done loose paintings and considered them Impressionistic. It was time to get expressionistic. Jackson Pollock I laid the boards on the ground and went to town! The first one I did I diluted the paints so they would flow very easily. I used a large paintbrush and wooden spoons, the whole works and threw paint across the board, walking around getting it across in different motions and when the paint was still wet I would lift and tilt the board to manipulate the flow of the pigment. I did this over and over again, building up the layers. The second painting I used a sponge, soaked it in the diluted paint and squeezed over the board, it created a nice splattering effect, and then soaked into the boa...

Painting has always been my forte but I am sure you can see that this semester I have been trying out a lot of things, this was the time to experiment and I made full use of it! As much as I love video making and producing sound pieces, and I really do, because I have learned a lot of useful skills this semester, I still return to my painting. At the start of the year I began with the rough idea of the Psychological and Consciousness as it is something that holds my interest as there a multiple theories but no real answers. So I am going to attach a screen recording off a quick slideshow of  concepts, ideas or medias I played around with at the beginning of the year. The first painting you see in the video is something I produced very early on where it captured my brain process to begin with, it is very raw. This painting shows how my head is all over the place and it is unlike anything I have ever done before but I am delighted with how it turned out! The second painting is a ...

I really enjoyed doing Peter's class so I wanted to experiment on my own more with sound. Since I was looking into the Psychology of my art, I wanted to see how a sound can change that or manipulate it into something it might not be or maybe something it is but it enhances the experience as it reaches out to another sense; hearing. I have created ones that were quite creepy in nature, some that are quite dramatic and others more subtle. I think next semester I will look more into my theories and effects of my work, as for this semester I am making full use of the experimenting era. Maybe instead of showing the sound with the piece I could use the sound piece it play while I am painting and analyse the effects that has. Considering my work has been getting very expressionistic and active I would be very interested in these results. Over the holidays I believe I will create more sound pieces as I have the intentions in developing them and making them a part of my practise. As for...

So I am working on what to do and where to take my "Colour Psychology" work. I honestly want to play around with it, have a bit of fun and see what works best. I really enjoyed the workshop with Chris and Carlos so I decided to start there. I wanted to use after effects and challenge myself and ,my skills. I wanted it to show me physically changing the meaning but I jumped straight in! I will show you how far I have gotten so far as it is a lengthy process for me as I am not all that familiar After Effects. All images and layers I created myself in Photoshop. I know this adds more time but I want this to be an authentic piece purely produced by me. However when I finish the actual animation part of it I will use Audacity to maybe create some sound effects and backtrack for this piece. Like I said before this piece is still in an early process and what I have shown might not necessarily be apart of that final outcome as now that I have learnt the "skills" I be...

After my talk with Peter he showed a lot of interest in one of my ideas. I was looking into the Psychology of colours and how we perceive them and interpret them as we do. So we are told colours like red are are meant to betray anger, blue is meant to be calming. So I went online and looked at Dulux paint colours and their names. I brought them in photoshop. In the first slide are the original names given to the colours. In the second image you can see I played around with the names a little, just having some fun! The third edit represents their effects or representations/ associations. After doing the three activities I needed to stop and think of where I was going to take this. I finally decided instead of embracing and going with the "norm" what if I challenge it? What if I try to give them new meanings. This Practise is still in very early stages and I do have full intentions to develop it further. If you look at the last screengrab, the colours develop quite dark meani...

This year I struggled a lot with defining my art. I knew what I was interested in, as for a matter of fact I had "too many" ideas. I got worked up in switching back and forth and trying to focus on one and it was clear in my practice that I was stressing as I wasn't creating successful work. I then had a meeting with Peter; my personal tutor. We talked through it and he reassured me that it is okay to have all these ideas and "all over the place" isn't really a bad thing.  So this inspired me to keep creating and going with the flow instead of over thinking just producing and letting all that built up creativity flow. I had so many things I wanted to try and wanted to do and I felt that excitement come back, the eagerness to create art. I am going to post maybe a video of my ideas/thought processing book. It is messy and there writing here and there mixed in with doodles and sketches but thats what helps me get where I need to be! Although it might see...

I found Rosas work quite interesting. I greatly admired her confidence when it came to her performance work. I don't think it is something I would personally aspire towards but it was quite inspiring to see Uddoh do so. I think it was more striking with the environment it was in. The way they were performing where very show casey but they were inside this formal gallery/ exhibiting space. The contrast was there and it was a bit odd but it strangely worked and I believe was very successful. What I found more inspiring in Rosa Johan Uddoh's practise was her work where she took a derogatory comment from a man and turned it into a piece of work. The man commented on her thighs and it is based on a Cuban myth that black women slaves were to use their thighs to make roofing tiles. She began to run workshops for black women and non binary people to attend and learn about this. In doing so she created a community were all these people could meet, talk, discuss, chat and laugh. In ...

Tuesday 4th of December  Adam was my personal tutor in first year and obviously that involved a lot of conversation. However, I knew he wasn't an artist per-say and I knew he was a curator but I never known much outside of that. So I was quite interested in this session we had with him yesterday! Both him and Jon spoke about how they curated certain shows and even though i was intrigued to find out more what Adam does I never expected to be overly excited about curation itself. This session proved me wrong! ( I feel like this is an ongoing theme in these every week). When I thought of curating a show, what comes to mind is the intellect of it all, the boring side of exhibiting. However both Jon and Adam spoke how they stepped outside of traditional curating on traditional grounds. So below are the notes I have taken while Adam and Jon spoke. I like adding the notes from these kind of meetings so I am not repeating myself and I can directly refer to them. I was impressed b...

Tuesday 27th of November  In all honesty, I was not looking forward to Claire's Masterclass as anything that revolved around performance did not interest me and I always shyed away from it.  She started to show us these collections of videos and we had to write down what we thought of the happenings in the clips. I have to say I have never been so consumed in analytically watching someone perform or speak. These are the notes I recorded while watching the videos. Videos that jumped out at me was the first one and the piece where it showed solely a mouth. I think the first one was so effective and stuck to mind as it was in general very obscure and hard to read. We later found out that the woman performing, every time the bell rang she had to perform a different emotion over and over again. It was quite unsettling as some of the actions and sounds being made where devastating and you wanted to reach out and maybe try and help her even though we know it is a performance...

Tuesday 20th of November  In Neils masterclass we did not produce any work and as he stated it would be too time consuming and not all that possible in the short time we had there with him that afternoon. I have to say I was a little disappointed! I would not consider printmaking my strongest area when it comes to the art world but I have to say I do enjoy the production of it all and gain some satisfaction. Neil talked a lot about process and what we would be aiming towards next semester. Again he gave marvellous talks but I feel like if I was to go through the process of creating something it would of convinced me to pick that field for next year. I am going to have to take my time and looks through all my subjects but I think I will consider this in the top three. I definitely did enjoy seeing good strong examples of what processes and techniques that were involved as I am sure you can tell from all the pictures! Intaglio printing was the one that caught my attention...