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HANNAH NUGENT

Yesterday I attended an online artist talk, where Edinburgh based artist Hannah Nugent talked about her journey and where she is presently.

Hannah Nugent studied at Edinburgh College, and graduated at Glasgow School of Art for painting and printmaking in 2018. Since then she has moved back to her hometown Edinburgh.

She mainly works with printmaking and paint, and has recently started using digital techniques like animation. I really like her work and how vibrant her pieces are. I find her artwork really inspiring and interesting, as she starts of using Microsoft Paint to sketch her paintings and then goes on to paint them with acrylic and oil or screen print.

Attending her talk really motivated and I feel it really helped me in being inspired about the current project I’m doing.

Tags artistresearch, cap2, paint, printmaking, Research

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WAWWA: DEVELOPMENT PRT.4

I took photographs of my myself in a curls up positions with my back facing the camera. I wanted to portray a tired, scared and fragile vibe. I then went on to change it to black and white and photoshop my prints that I did earlier into it.

This was completely experimental as I have never really done photoshop, but I really enjoyed using. I tried different colours and really pixel the last picture as it reminded me of little cells, which I felt fitted perfectly with the current theme I am focusing on.

I have more picture I would like to photoshop and experiment more with. In the future I want to add more to artwork as I feel this art piece is a little plain.

Tags cap2, development, experiment, photography, photoshop, printing, wawwa

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WAWWA: DEVELOPMENT PRT.3

I decided to experiment with Lino print. I started off with creating designs that represent the lung and the air sacs that are located within the lungs. I decided to focus on lungs and breathing as that is where the virus effects the human body first.

At first I used green ink, as that is the only colour that I have, however I then went on to experimenting with acrylic paint as I can get more variety of colours. I really enjoyed printing and working with vibrant colours.

With some of the left over paint, I decided to attempt mono print. I wrote the words ‘covid’ and ‘breathe’. I feel this was successful as I would like to experiment with these prints on photoshop.

Tags cap2, development, experiment, linoprint, monoprint, printmaking, wawwa

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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.

Tags artistresearch, cap2, wawwa

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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.

Tags cap2, developmentaldrawings, experimenting, wawwa

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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.

Tags cap2, developmentaldrawings, experiment, painting, photoshop, studioproject1, wawwa

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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.

Tags artistresearch, cap2, Research

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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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SEE YOU, SEE ME

For this project, we had to photograph our own home installations that represent our current environment that surrounds us. We then upload our installations and create observational drawings from other colleagues’ installations.

I really enjoyed this task, and got use to sketching and warming up the creative mind. For my observational pieces, I decided to combine different installations into one piece. I feel it gave certain pieces a surrealistic style. We had to only use monochromatic materials, so I only use mainly pencil and black ink pen. I experimented by using my left hand on certain pieces, not looking at the page and continues line. I also decided to combine two techniques into one pice, so I might use my left hand drawing one object and drawing in more detail with the other object.

Im really happy with outcome of my pieces, and looking forward to getting into the habit on sketching and experimenting again!

Tags installations, IntheBeginning, monochrom, Seeyouseeme, sketch

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WAWWA

For this project we had to research a certain location, and create a piece using that information. I decided to photoshoot two different shots of the location, but slightly different views, I placed them in front of the map showing Edinburgh. I then wrote the nearest Shop, Cafe, Pub and the nearest building. I then decided to add the coordinates at the bottom as I felt it was quite empty otherwise.