Studio Practice 

Major project

This major project is an opportunity to engage in the development of a work or a series of works, that issues from your own interest with respect to ideas, media, methodologies and aims 

Notes and Ideas

First day back for studio Practice, I set myself homework for that week. 

Making a list of Comfortable and Uncomfortable things to do with my life.

I will find out and generate ideas that come to mind from this list.

Ideas 

My original idea for this project was to paint on a canvas of a teddy bear with graphic guts hanging out of it, so I then drew some thumb nails of teddy bear movements and also some ruff sketches of a bear. 

Thumb Nails

Sketches 

I was then told to use only 3 colors to limit my self and to also like my final out come of my work. 

So I then had to change my idea about the teddy sticking with the same plan but instead of using a teddy bear, I would use a image of my dog. As this was the time frame for the Ebola out break, It also started with animals. I was so hung up about this problem, that it was all that was only mind for the time being so it kind of had a link with my idea. 

Images of my dog lying down.

Over time I decided to change and generate my idea completely more so along the lines of a human figure. I found that my nation was not anything to do with the animal kingdom or cartoonish teddy bear but to leap out of my comfort zone and doing the back view of a womans figure.

I wanted to add a tattoo to the woman's back with no meaning at all but just adding to the painting in general working with the colour in groups of 3 .

I started with a ruff drawing to get me motivated.

From this drawing I have started my painting 

As I

have worked on my painting I have noticed some flaws and Changes I need to make to make this painting better. I have added a sheet going over her shoulder and around her back, Fixing some of the facial features and other areas to the painting that can be adjusted, I have also removed the black feather on top of the skull and adding my 3 color option in some places.



My proses through out this painting. 

When I started this image I started with painting the skin gradually going up in layering like proses,
as I was painting her skin I used acrylic paints white back and gray, first I started with the under coat of the skin then coming back to it building up another layer. I then started on her hair, again using black grey and white acrylic paints as I got 90% of her hair done I started with and under coat of the flowers in her hair using red acrylic gradually building up that red tone brightening up the image, next I started on the image/tattoo on her back after removing the feather on top of the skull I had a problem with the image, it was not to my standards so I added in some extra beads and crosses under the skull. As the image was coming together I was starting to think that I should of work on a black canvas instead of white, then I thought I could paint the background black, After some thinking I came to realise I did not want to make that change to the image and that I have come to really like the white background lightening the painting instead of being to dark.   
During the time I was painting the face after 3 or more attempts I am finally happy with the out come of the facial structure mainly the lips/mouth I was having trouble with, being consistent and taking my time Ive come to really enjoy my painting. 

My final thoughts.

I found that this project for me was a challenge in its self, having to come up with and idea or plan that fits to the breff description. Other than that I really enjoyed the the problem solving every time something came up. I think I have reached my standards to this project evolving and regenerating my ideas to their fullest even if it is fulling changing my original plan/ideas its all part of the learning proses, I also had the conversation of only using 3 colors and I admit I was not happy about it but I really like my final out come witch was part of the idea of only using limited colors.
 

Week 5

Studio practice students put into new groups.

Ellyn, Vallance and myself

Narrative.
Define a sepcific volume within F Block with a nonlinear narritive.

This introduces an exploration of the object, and as is the case for all objects, be they physical, imagined, or digital, it must also include an exploration of the space in which it was located.

A story that does not make sense, but still tells a story, start at the end, story with different scenarios that can go anywhere.

A story within a circle about the space that can keep going round, be read over and over.

Make a painting within the painting telling a story.

A story with multiple choice questiosns and answers.

Use a window into a classroom with a painting of people doing something in that room.

A picture of a corner, a corner within a corner.

The idea we decided we would go with, was a picture of wool in a corner or on a wall and place multiple of those photos in a group on the wall, with the string coming from that image ..
We didn't really have any issues with this project, just that we had many ideas to choose from.
In the end i really enjoyed Non-liner Narrative as i learnt something new about something i didn't know existed. Using the wool like we did in the images shows Non-liner as the wool is not straight but goes indifferent angles and different directions.

Studio Practace groups..

Week 3 put into groups, including Lani, Jay, Chad, Shane and myself

Notes and Ideas:

* Rafters- using toilet paper and throwing it over the bars in F block, in one section of the room we             could use.

* Make a bunch of 3D objects/shapes hanging in the air with fishing line.

* Make an art object out of paper and hang up to make it look as if the roof is falling or collapsing.

* Take photos of the pillars/rafters and roof, print squar then hang from all corners. So when people look up they can see the same image but closer and on paper also hanging from different lengths.

* Take and Print the images of F-block then cut out the template on the photos and make the object from that template.

To much to reflect on F-block.

* Pyramid made out of mirrors, reflecting the inside view of the building.

Just a more advanced idea.

* One big pyramid - one at the top - 4 in the middle sides and 4 on the floor in the corners.

Top pyramid - no bottom gives the idea of a hollow pyramid.

Side pyramid - only two sided, this gives only selected sides of the pyramid.

Bottom four - two sides plus bottom. This gives ides of a full pyramid but hollow and allows you to walk through it and exsperance it from different aspects and views.

* Still the same idea, of a large pyramid, selected earas of the triangle will look like a exploded 3D collage cutout idea of a pyramid with cardboard panels using fishing line to hang it.

As we got started to make our pyramid we found out that our original idea was not going to work out.

So we then came up with another idea, that was to still go with the pyramid idea but instead of using cardboard, we went with using coloured wool and go around the pyramid shape that we had and have it using a large part of space in F Block. 

Finished pyramid, shown above.

Exaltation of the not noticed.

For the first week back at witt, our task for the day was to take a small or not so noticeable part of one of our works we have done in class and reproduce that detail in some appropriate form so that it is completely unrecognisable from the original. 

I decided on completely making a new image that day, taking a small insignificant part and making it noticeable to the human eye that can't be unseen.

This is the image i made on the left and this is my final image on the right. I took a small marking on her chin, rotated it and contrasted it making it more vibrant. 

Tools i used were black ink pen and where you see red i used red lipstick. 

I found that i really like my final image as i have never done this before or even worked with lipstick in one of my works.