The last few weeks have been busy busy busy.
Handing in the official blog on the deadline, gave me a chance to stop stressing and get back in the studio for the final half a term of making art and preparing for the degree show. This post will hopefully explore the path I have taken during April and how technique, the weather and my home life has all changed my work recently.
Firstly, I have become more experimental with gravity and the way in which I hang my work, whether that be horizontal or vertical, or with or against the act of gravity on my drips. The dripping is still the main part of my work, it symbolises the life paint has after leaving the brush or cup (or whatever I happen to be using) and will remain my main focus. What I have been enjoying the most is the freedom I have had over the last two weeks.
My mind has always been torn between small and large scale work, and I think I have come to a realisation that maybe a mixture of both could work well for me. My most recent paintings have been on a large scale and exude texture and rustic vibes. Larger scale pieces give me r opportunity to use multiple mediums including, paint, sand, coffee, tea and gloss, just some of the range I have loved using to make texture and a three dimensional effect on my canvases.
NATURAL MATERIALS. NATURAL OUTCOMES.
Brick dust, wood, coffee and tea are all regular things I use in my art, and are all natural materials and help support my body of work. I have been keeping my palettes as well to show the progression of my colour uses and how I use paint. I’ve noticed that I have started reverting back to using blue a lot in my work as a focus point, something I did last term and tend to do when working on a larger scale. I have also been turning my work from longways to sideways and spraying with a bottle and leaving it, is has been brilliant to leave the end result up to the paint itself. This seconds the strength in my gravity themed work and the contrast between drippings.
the weather lately has been surprisingly nice, the but rain and greyness has been somewhat of an inspiration on my work. Especially the rain. I invested in a spray bottle, a FANTASTIC thing for my art, it enables me to make the paint run without touching the canvas. ITS AMAZING.
i am hoping to make a few smaller paintings and leave them out in the rain and see if a similar effect occurs. It’s to do with the physical activity of the drips and the mixture of water and colours.
I have aver also been spending a little time in my back garden and have enjoyed being around the colours of a spring garden. Deep browns, yellows and greens. Also some oranges and pinks and although I wanted to stay away from artificial colours I have loved the brightness of orange and turquoise in my art.
All these influnences have have helped create these paintings which show my progression, my colour connections to nature and the rustic and textural technique of my art.
