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WAWWA: DEVELOPMENT PRT. 10

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Post date 27th Nov 2020
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Carrying on from my artwork created in the previous post, I decided to continue with photoshop. I wanted to experiment more with the graphs as a background. I also wanted to experiment with stop-like movement, so added photoshops of me, wearing pyjamas or comfort clothes that I wear around the house. I decided to wear this outfit as its what a wore throughout quarantine.

I looked into graphs and statistics on the deaths, cases and progression of the virus. I have been focusing on the actual cell itself and the visualisation, so now I want see more into the science, statistics and progression.

I added the swirl as its in a circular motion, representing the cell, in red because of since of danger that red is associated with.

I feel this piece is a bit messy and plain, boring. However I do feel it a successful in the developing episode, as if I was to add more aspects, it could become a good art piece.

Tags cap2, paint, photoshop, wawwa

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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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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.