My Practise | At the Beginning | Painting | Ideas and Concepts
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 bit of a rollercoaster. I created a nice scenery painting, one that involved a lot of colour and was pretty to look at, but I wasn't happy with it. It wasn't my style or me anymore. I felt as if I have developed beyond "pretty pictures". While the paint was still went I just painted over the top of the scenery and the colours swarmed and mixed in with the white. I really liked how this looked so I just left it even though I had previous intentions to start from a clean slate. I also like how it plays with an audiences trust, that there was once a painting of mountains, water and sky. Do they believe me? Am I just lying?
The painted lightbulbs where just an experiment really and I have no really meaning for them but it was about looking beyond a canvas. I do think they look good but I don't know how I would develop these. It is something I wouldn't mind looking into though!
The hands were a happy accident! When I am creating I love to get messy and I always end up covered in more materials then probably the artwork itself. I decided to switch outlooks. Instead of looking into the art, what about the hands that make them? So that is how these came about! Which is funny because shifting the view from physical pieces to your hands in turn turns them into the art. I really enjoyed the concept of this piece. I believe it is something I would like to develop I don't necessarily mean the hands but rather the concept. It really interests me when you look online or go to a museum or gallery and you see these biographies of the artist. It could tell you about their whole life story, but why not talk about the experiences that got you there? Sure, they will share a short sentence on what inspires them but how did you get from A to B, what did you experience, why did you paint the way you did? How did it feel. For me the hands represent the passion in art making.
The next 2 slides just show a clay mask/sculpture I made then the sfx make up I did on myself and the editing. These are just things I take interest in and don't have much else to say as I enjoy doing them and when I feel the need to create, I do whether it relates to my practise or not.
It was at this point I started to look more into Francis Bacon and his work and I liked the tone and mood that was represented into his work and I written and show this drawing in there. His work definitely influenced my next painting. I like how Bacon represents mood, atmosphere and conscientious. He does it in quite a ghostly way that I find amazing. This painting shows frustration, anger and not knowing. I am quite an emotive person painting is the perfect outlet for me and lets me express those negative feelings in a way that I feel works best. I like bringing colour to it for the strong contrasts. Even though I can be in quite a bad state mentally I always get over it and I am okay. This painting was a way of showing that! The last few slides show how my practise was starting to fall in place. I don't want to explain them too much as they are present in other blog posts. It is interesting looking back on all of this and seeing where it got me. I am so happy I recorded everything. I found it really helpful the way I have it presented in a slideshow as it was easy to edit every week and add to it. I found that very useful and I believe I will do that with my practise for now on.
The painted lightbulbs where just an experiment really and I have no really meaning for them but it was about looking beyond a canvas. I do think they look good but I don't know how I would develop these. It is something I wouldn't mind looking into though!
The hands were a happy accident! When I am creating I love to get messy and I always end up covered in more materials then probably the artwork itself. I decided to switch outlooks. Instead of looking into the art, what about the hands that make them? So that is how these came about! Which is funny because shifting the view from physical pieces to your hands in turn turns them into the art. I really enjoyed the concept of this piece. I believe it is something I would like to develop I don't necessarily mean the hands but rather the concept. It really interests me when you look online or go to a museum or gallery and you see these biographies of the artist. It could tell you about their whole life story, but why not talk about the experiences that got you there? Sure, they will share a short sentence on what inspires them but how did you get from A to B, what did you experience, why did you paint the way you did? How did it feel. For me the hands represent the passion in art making.
The next 2 slides just show a clay mask/sculpture I made then the sfx make up I did on myself and the editing. These are just things I take interest in and don't have much else to say as I enjoy doing them and when I feel the need to create, I do whether it relates to my practise or not.
It was at this point I started to look more into Francis Bacon and his work and I liked the tone and mood that was represented into his work and I written and show this drawing in there. His work definitely influenced my next painting. I like how Bacon represents mood, atmosphere and conscientious. He does it in quite a ghostly way that I find amazing. This painting shows frustration, anger and not knowing. I am quite an emotive person painting is the perfect outlet for me and lets me express those negative feelings in a way that I feel works best. I like bringing colour to it for the strong contrasts. Even though I can be in quite a bad state mentally I always get over it and I am okay. This painting was a way of showing that! The last few slides show how my practise was starting to fall in place. I don't want to explain them too much as they are present in other blog posts. It is interesting looking back on all of this and seeing where it got me. I am so happy I recorded everything. I found it really helpful the way I have it presented in a slideshow as it was easy to edit every week and add to it. I found that very useful and I believe I will do that with my practise for now on.
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