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ANGELA CANADA HOPKINS

Angela Canda-Hopkins is an American Artists based in Loveland, Colorado. She mainly works with mixed media, like nails, glass and sand and acrylic paint. Her artwork is based on cells and vibrant colours.

Her work started being focused on cells, due to her father’s battle with cancer, which Angela found very difficult to deal with.

I really like her work and the colours that are used in her artwork. I find the detailing in her work is really effective and interesting. As I feel its its heard to get detail when painting cells.

I would like to experiment with more vibrant colours, but I don’t want to stray from my theme. However, I feel Angela’s work is very influential.

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WAWWA: DEVELOPMENT PRT.2

This week I’ve been mainly focusing on doing experimentation and development on the virus and cells aspects of my project. I have paint about 3 painting and made an artwork on ProCreate, and then combined them on photoshop by layering them on top on each other.

When thinking about cells and fighting of disease, I feel it can potray quite a chaotic feel, everything fighting to survive. So, I wanted to create or experiment with trying to represent messy, chaotic. I feel the layering technique helped as it make the artwork busy and a lot going on. However, I think it was successful.

This week, I feel I have hit a wall for inspiration. So, I am just experimenting with ideas that come to mind and not worrying about if it connects completely to my theme, as I don’t think that helps when mentally blocked.

I would like to further develop this piece in photoshop and add detailing to it.

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WAWWA: DEVELOPMENT PRT.1

I’ve been mainly focusing on doing contextual research and then responding to the new information through developing and experimenting.

With research about the virus’s cells and the how the human body fights the virus with antibodies and protein cells, I decided to draw a visualisation of the cells ‘fighting’. I used the colours that the majority of science articles use when describing which cell us which. The red is the virus and the blue is the antibodies. I was struggling when making due to not feeling any ideas are motivation.

I then started trying photoshop, and really enjoyed using it! I don’t have much experience using photoshop, so I experimented with my theme and just getting use to photoshop. I do like what I created, and feel this could be a path of potential development.

The last response I have done was just an idea I got when researching, with the thought of the cells moving in the body. I wanted to try and visualise that movement.

I want to know focus on the actual human body, especially the chest and throat area as that is where the virus first affects.

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LAZLO MOHOLY-NAGY

Lazlo was an Hungarian artist, born in 1895, and died 1946. He work in several different artistic medias, but was mainly known for his artworks in painting and photography. He was part of the movements, Dada, Expressionism and Modern Art and was influenced by constructivism, and was known as a strong advocate of the integration of technology industry into the arts.

I really like his photography work, as it focuses on the shadowing of shapes and the photographs really move, giving a hypnotic, surrealistic feeling. I also like how the photographs have a feeling of layering, which I find really interesting.

Looking at his paintings, its mainly geometric and very structured, yet bright contrasting colours. I feel there’s so much inspiration for the theme I’m currently working on, as I’m looking at the shaping of cells, which are quite geometric.

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WAWWA: CONTEXUAL RESEARCH

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Post date 13th Oct 2020
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After my initial response to the new project, I decided to do some contextual research to inspire my next artistic response and to further develop my theme. As I’m thinking about the body and the actual cells of the virus, I started to research about the process of the virus in the human body.

I mainly looked at what the actual cell itself looked like, and made response inspired by that. I tried to recreate the look of the cell, using ink and watercolour. I also decided to do pointillism with a fine tip pen to create a similar look as a spreading disease looks. I used the colours red and yellow as that is the colour of the coronavirus.

With further research I found that the word “corona”, is from the latin word meaning ‘Crown’, due to the cell being surround by little spikes, looking like a crown. I have also looked into the artist Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, and I plan on experimenting with photoshop and photography next, and using the information about the history of the name and maybe looking at the shape of the human body, and how I can portray an emotion through the shaping of the body.

The start of the slide show is actual photos of the virus, and then the next two paintings are my responses.

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NEW PROJECT: WAWWA

For this new project, we are to create artwork that focuses around our environment in anyway that we feel. We are also allowed to use whatever materials we wish.

Today, I did quick sketches of random thoughts or ideas I had when thinking about what I should focus on as a project. I started to think about covid-19, and started doodling loose drawing of DNA patterns, or what I thought looked like DNA, or cell related. At first I just used a black sharpie, but then I went on to create another pice similar but with paint. The colours being used are what I relate to cell colours, and they re not accurate. I really like the shaping created and hw they slightly over lap and I would be interested in looking into this futher.

I wanted ex[eriment with different ideas for this project, so I also sketch/painted nature related scene, with colours that I personally associated with happiness. The idea was that most of quarantine, I personally have found it difficult to stay in the present, and instead, most of my time fantasying about the future, and plans and just being completely separated from the current world pandemic. If I did develop this idea further, I would look more in mental health with connection to spending most of this year indoors, and the stress of not knowing when it will end.

This was a very quick sketch, using black acrylic paint. I made quick, rough shapes that could be recreated by the human body and adding sharp brushstrokes. I wanted to try and recreate the stress and anger myself and friends I’ve talked to about being inside for most of the year. When painting this I was thinking about the human body and how that could potray the feelings that I’ve been going through during covid.

Once I did these, and re-looked at my work. I think I want to continue the theme of seeing how can use the human body and the movement of the body to portray certain emotions. However, I also like the effect of the sketches I did relating to cells.

My next steps I want to start with contextual research on DNA, the virus cells, and the human body movement, and experimenting with how I can portray my current environment through that, as most people have spent quarantine on their own, and only have their self.

I also would like to start experimenting with photography and photoshop and looking into more sculpture.