Assignment 5

Assignment 5

Stage 1 Reviewing you work so far.

What approach to drawing works best for you?

I looked through my work and the drawings from still life and photos seem to work best for me. I am quite a slow drawer that likes to be quite precise about the drawing so this way of drawing suits this.

What materials and ways of working do you enjoy most?

Looking through my work I found that starting from a drawing from a still life or photograph and then developing the image for this point works well for me. I enjoy starting the drawing in paint and then developing the drawing using other materials from here. I generally use any material that suits the image I am working on.

Which way of developing ideas has proved most fruitful?

I feel that developing a piece of work from photocopies from phots worked well in assignment 2 and I feel that I enjoyed working on textures in assignment 3 and these also worked well.

Which textile technique appeals to you most?

Looking through my work I feel that I enjoyed printing on fabric and recreating textures using material.

I feel overall that the printed design in assignment 2 worked well and I really enjoyed this project, but I do not feel that I will have enough time to do printing in this project. If I had enough time I would like to combine this with stitching.

 

I looked through my sketch books and I didn’t find anything that I wanted to use for this project. I had a good think and I thought I would do a project on my favourite place the beach. I felt that there would be a lot of texture to work from and movement of the sea. Once I had visited the beach a few times and collected some objects from the beach I arranged them on my board to create a mood bored to give me inspiration.

 

I did some drawing from these images above.

I then looked at the images and chose this little painting to work from as it has a lot of texture to work from. I loved the movement and spray of the sea.

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 did another drawing from this image using masking fluid. I felt that this image would make a good printed design.

 

From the painting I came up with some ideas for a wall hanging that I could develop. I found a piece from an artist called Ana Teresa Barzona her work spilled over the side of the frame and I wanted to bring an element of this to my piece also I want to bring in the transparent element to my work that I used in a previous assignment. I worked on a few samples and then put together a story board.

 

I then started on the finished piece. The sown stones took longer than I thought they would.

 

 

I can see a clear line of progression from start to the finished piece, if I had more time I would have like to experiment more. I could have work from the photograph more photocopying them and work from that. I did a masking fluid drawing and I feel that would have made a good design for a piece of fabric and so at some point I would like to develop this further.

I feel that a printed fabric design would have been better but I ran out of time and didn’t have time to develop a printed fabric this time round. I enjoyed making the finish piece but the stone were a bit arduous as it seemed to take ages!

I do like my finished piece but I would have like to have more time developing the background as I feel that it was a bit weak. I feel if I had more time I would like to work on it a bit more and make it tidier.

 

 

Assignment 4 - Review

I have finally finished Assignment 4. I found the previous post in drafts that I wrote back in January. A lot has happened since then that stopped me finishing my assignment. I have finally started a full time job so it has taken me some time to get into a routine and fine the time to get on with this assignment but it is finally complete.

Here is my review of how I found this assignment.

I have enjoyed researching the artist and found this approach interesting, but it is the actual writing an essay that I find difficult. So that took some of the enjoyment out of the assignment. But the was the assignment was set out did help me to understand the artist work.

I was familiar with most of the artist it was just Leon Basket, Anni Albers Magdalena Abakanowicz and Judy Chicago. I found it was interesting finding out about new artists.  I really did not like the work of Judy Chicago. I am really not interested in the feminist ideas and was not interested in the ideas behind her work. I was really inspired by the work of Magdalena Abakanowicz and want to read more on her and her works.

The questions really helped me. I found having a structure gave me direction and help me to investigate the piece more and understand the works and the context they were designed and to find out more about the artist as well.

I really want to look at Magdalena Abakanowicz work more and she has inspired me to look at the producing larger pieces in the future.

I was really lucky when choosing my final pieces of work to be able to see the piece instead of looking at them in a book or on the internet. I chose to look at two works by Alice kettle that are on display in Winchester that were in very different situations. While there I was lucky that Grayson Perry's Walthamstow tapestry was on display and he was the other artist that I was considering looking at. So that made my mind up. It was a lot better as I got to see the size of the pieces and the texture of the stitches and also the environment the piece was in such as Alice Kettle Altar piece that is in a small chapel. I am so glad that got to see a piece of work by Grayson Perry as I find his work interesting and witty.

Assignment 4 - Project 1

Well again it has been a while since I added an entry onto the blog. I have been busy with Christmas and job hunting. So finally Christmas is over, I have a few days before I get back into the job hunting full time and the school runs start again so I have managed to find a spare few hours to look at this assignment. As usual I am starting my assignment a little late so I doubt that I will get it to my tutor by the deadline date!

So I started off looking at the internet and doing a little research on the ten artists in part one of this project: Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Leon Bakst, Ethel Mairet, Anni Albers, Lucienne Day, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Zandra Rhodes, Judy Chicago, issey Miyake and Tracey Emins. At first I wasn't sure how I was going to tackle this task, but the other night, I came up with the idea to do a spider diagram to put the main points and historical notes and images for the artist that I felt were important. This way I felt that I had a quick reference on one page on the artists for me to refer back to.

After doing this exercise I have now moved onto stage 2. It took me a while to decide which artist I was going to write about. There were artist that I defiantly did not want to write about like Judy Chicago. I was drawn to Magdalena Abakanowicz (found her Abakans really interesting), Lucienne Day and Tracey Emin ( I find her work uncomfortable but intriguing). So I have decided to write about Lucienne Day and look at images by Tracey Emin and Magdalena Abakanowicz in stage 3.

I can not get to the library till probably Monday so I will do some internet research and look through the books that I have until then. I will also do my short list of 6 Artist of my own choose for Project 2 and choose the images for studying ready so I can also find the books I need when in the library on Monday.