Music is a big part of my process depending on my mood my music often matches. for example if I want an upbeat feeling to my work I will create an upbeat playlist with songs that match or the latter.
I decided to put this in to affect for my next piece, I made a playlist on my Ipod and painted the to mood of the music. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi_CkbwkBq3NC3xheXwfoohaOKt-8dNkj this was the playlist for this piece.
This was the outcome.
Scale was very important as I needed space for expressions of movement. at one point I was sitting in the middle of the piece painting around myself. It was very important for me to be actually in the piece to make it personal.
Some could argue that it would have been I good performance piece, like Jackson Pollack was in his work personally I am not a big fan of his work and I will change my work to get rid of this effect. But I am not a big fan a documenting myself videoing me creating something like this would make me very uncomfortable.
I think this is something I need to overcome as it would be good to see my process just minus the my awful singing.
my painting ‘Splash’ is inspired by a painting by Anji Ar I found it on Pinterest. I loved the colours and thought I could make my own additions to in.
This is the painting a made, I started with a white wash over all of the canvas and then blended blue from bottom to top, then adding the pink over the white. I then used watered down paint and put it in a spray bottle and sprayed it on to the canvas. I really enjoy using the spray bottles it created such a good effect that I will carry on using.
Why did I use those colours? I did this because the picture that I was inspired by used the similar colour, also it comes down to mood I will only paint with light colours is a am feeling happy and positive.
Why did I use the dripping effect? some think that dripping is a sad effect symbolising depressed feelings as it looks like rain that can be linked to S.A.D (Seasonal affective disorder) which is when people get depressed in long periods of rain or dull weather. For my it is completely different I enjoy rain I find it very homely and comforting. so that is why I enjoy using that effect. I also feel that drips are kinda of a trade mark to my work.
I am starting a new project at University it sounds like a great opportunity to explore and create new work. The project is called Project 10 and involves 10 students over 10 week working within the loose theme of 10.
The student will start creating work on Monday evening and over the week create whatever we like (to the lose theme of 10) in the universities ‘White Space’ we will present thework on the following Monday. We are doing this to make more use of the facilities we have at university that are not being used.
There is a blog that goes with this project that will be updated weekly with the different students work. http://auditchaos.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/10-prjct-day-27.html
I already have some fun and creative ideas for the space and can’t wait to start the project.
40×40 inches acrylic and metallic paint ink and glitter on canvas.
I have finished my black hole series, I really enjoyed the process.
I started with watered down paints and over layed different shades go blue and green until the paints bended together in a pleasing way. I preferred this to the first method I did, on the other painting I painted with think paints and did not get the blending I wanted. There are so many differences between the two even though they are matching paintings but personally the second one is my favourite. This is because I learnt the processes I wanted in the first painting and brought it all together in the second one.
I painted these because I wanted to express my feelings of anxiety. Blue seemed like the perfect colour to show this. Although I love the colour blue and it doesn’t always mean depression and sadness to me this time it did. I choose to paint two, one to represent my depression the other anxiety but they ended up meshing in to one in each of the painting, as they do in life.
The progression of this painting was a lot more straight forward than the first painting as I knew I little better what I was doing in this one, I knew the effects I wanted to use.
Here is a picture of the development.
I knew that it was not complete here because it was missing depth layers and detail. So I layered it up with lighter blue tones and used a polka doting effect to add detail.
I finished the first painting in the series that I am doing at the moment. I am really happy with the outcome it was a little different than a planned as I had planned to paint the middle on the picture black but I changed my mind and it now looks much better.
40×40 inches acrylic and metallic paint ink and glitter on canvas.
the picture look much better in person, because in this you can’t see the glitter and the depth of the colours. I used glitter so it would look like millions of stars gleaming. I also used sliver and gold paint for the dots so they would shine.
The progression in the painting was quite complex as the idea I had in my head didn’t look right on the canvas, so I had to develop my idea as I went along.
Here are the pictures of the development.
