Studio work 20/9/2016

Today we started with artist research pages. I decided to look at some artists which have inspired me through this nature project. I found it difficult because I couldn't find many nature artists that had an abstract and unusual style like mine.
I emeded up finding some artists that I really liked and wanted to try and recreate the work of.
Whilst I was stuck I started looking at cy twomblys pieces. I noticed he did a small exhibition of work which involved roses. I really loved these pieces and knew straight away that I wanted to look closer into his work. I also found another great artist named Hiroshi Matsamoto her art involved using oil paints which I am not 100% comfortable with. However after using these paints again I realised that I really like them, I loved how easily they blended today and how smooth they applied and I feel the piece I created will look nice in my portfolio of work.

Studio practice 15/9/2016th

This morning we had sole where I finished my moodboard and continued with sketches from the farm. 

Then through the afternoon I had my first fine art session with Claire. She decided to do some observational drawings with us and she gathered lots of items for us to draw from.

She had a long list on the board with ways she wanted us to create our drawings. 

I really enjoyed this activity because she encouraged us to create work in the styles that suit us. I am externally happy with the outcome of this session because I left it with one piece of work I really want to use in my portfolio.

I enjoyed creating compositions with the objects Claire gave us and trying to draw from them in my own abstract style. I used all types of mediums throughout this class because that's what I felt most comfortable doing.

Farm day 14/9/2016

Today we took a trip to the farm. We did this to gather even more research and images and also to create our own studies whilst there. There where so many different animals at the farm and they where all really interesting to look at and photograph! I really enjoyed drawing the animals up close and not just from images. I created my studies mostly in pen and water colour and my favourite animals to draw turned out to be the chickens. I got some really interesting photographs because we where so close to all the animals! I also looked at a lot of the nature around the farm that wasn't just animals such as the plants and the trees. I took some close up pictures of flowers and leaves along with some zoomed in images of tree bark and logs.

Studio work, mood boards 13/9/2016

 Today was our first day back at college, our first artistic task was to create a mood board based on what we had researched in our sketchbooks throughout the summer and what we are hoping to focus on for this project. I started off by printing images both primary and secondary to stick on my mood board and to work from. I wanted my mood board to be based on both images and my own studies. I decided that textures in nature was definitely the way I wanted to go with this project so I gathered images of different textures I had looked at in my summer sketchbook.
I also printed the textures images I had taken of things like leaves and mushrooms to show primary research. From these images I created my own studies in water colour and inks to show the way I wanted to recreate these textures.

Pollock doc

The documentary I watched was ' Jackson pollock love and death on long island' I really enjoyed this documentary! It was a really interesting way of hearing about pollock and his work. 

Jackson Pollock has been my favourite artist since I can remember! I have always been inspired by his art work and his role in abstract expressionism. 

The documentary showed many pieces of his work throughout and showed videos of Jackson painting in action. This was really exiting to watch and helped me see further into his techniques as an artist! 

The documentary showed a lot about the Jackson pollock film that was made and the effects the film had on Jackson and his mental health, it showed Pollocks struggles with depression and alcoholism throughout his life which are really important issues to me. 

I could defiantly relate closely to the documentary and the reasonings behind certain pieces of Pollocks art work. 

The thing that I enjoyed the most about the documentary is the opinions and explanations of fellow artists and Jackson Pollocks close friends all the way through. I feel that these opinions had a great importance in the documentary and they helped form my opinions on Pollock as a person. 

I didn't enjoy the fact that a large part of the documentary betrayed Pollock in a very negative way and strayed away from the greatness of Jackson Pollock as an artist! Overall I really did love watching this documentary (more the positive parts over the negative.) 

Summer school

Today in summer school we looked at how to improve our sketchbooks I'm creative ways! We looked closely at different books with certain techniques and ideas in them. We also looked at some example sketchbooks to compare to our own and other peoples. These sketchbooks where really interesting to and 

I felt that they gave me a really good idea on what makes good quality work. 

I particularly liked the sketchbooks that had more texture and 3D elements because I think they look loads better than sketchbooks that are just flat. 

I also took pictures and developed ideas using the books given to us to look at. There are so really cool techniques in them to improve my sketchbook