Tag: quickresponse

SELF GEN PROJECT PRT4

With this project, a part of me is slightly out of my comfort zone. I’ve never really painted and drawn buildings before, I’ve always been interested but never something I have been able to try until now. I love the way Serj Fedulov paints and reminds me of Impressionism. I do plan on looking further into Impressionism as I would like to try painting in that technique.

I started off with focusing on the which strokes of paint that you see in his work. I did a small sketch of Edinburgh castle, using a handwriting pen and then used Gouache to create texture. I don’t like them, as I feel they are messy and a bit all over the place. However it did help in what I want to develop more. I really creating the texture and using the paint. I would like to look more into creating a rough, stone texture with paint and layering.

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SELF GEN PROJECT PRT3

I’ve decided that I’m going to be looking into the urban environment and nature, mainly focusing on Edinburgh City. With so much construction happening in the city right now, I want to look into the amount of greenery it has and look at the architecture of the city.

I started off by doing just simple sketches. I ended up with this response drawing of a flower and geometric shapes. I really like the piece and I liked the contrast of the detail, intricate flower compared to the simple lined shapes. In a way, it’s very similar to the city. I liked the thought of the contrast of nature and shapes and feel I could develop this into a project on urban environment.

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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.