Reflections Image by Jennie (c). Boy this was a hard one! we had to do a self portrait reflected in water. my main issue was finding a suitable receptacle to hold the water in. I tried a stainless steel bowl – no good, too shiny. Tried a white bowl – no good too… well.. white…
This is the first work in my new unit VAR12. I have mentioned before that this unit involves abstraction, anamorphism and interesting ideas so it will be quite interesting. This assignment was to do a self portrait reflected in something round and shiny. I chose our doorknobs which are very shiny (oo shiny!) There isn’t…
Arg!The very last assignment is text within a piece with the theme of the everyday. I have chosen a quote that I think sums up my life pretty well at the moment: ‘pain is no evil unless it conquers us“ It has given me much to think about…. I want to get a fair amount done before christmas as I will be cooking non stop over the holiday – YAY!
The first image is my interpretation of ‘street’ I am particularly, um, pleased I guess, at how it turned out, it communicates the horror of our accident very well. I was concerned about using the collage crumpled car but I think it shows the extent of the damage and how metal can be just like paper…. The second work is taking the original image and doing it in a style inspired by a specific artist (one who has also addressed “streets”) This was a really obvious choice for me.
it needed to have anomaly of scale and each piece needed to further refine the composition and solidify the body in the environment. I felt a need to choose a view from one of my Europe photos (for no reason other than I wanted an interesting space) and some photos I took of Liam after my fall a month or two ago.I was really worried about this assignment as I felt I had overreached in the space for the size (8cm x 10cm!)… Have been working on my exhibition proposal for early next year and thinking about where I want to take the next one.
unexpected, but interesting.The Next assignment will be to complete a series of 3 small drawings with the body in space. exxaggerated and out of scale but in a space, landscape/architectural, real/imagined, doesn’t matter as long as it is a body in the space…. that will be tomorrows task, I am thinking of using some of my photographs from Europe as landscape inspirations as some are very interesting and unusual.
I am not going to put the whole thing up as family read this site but I have put some details up. I chose brown paper to try something different and using sepia tones to work back from and the highligh into was fascinating, I think the effects were very good in the end…. I knew a fair bit about Dali but not as much as I found out in that special!
I had a very productive day yesterday with the completion of two excersises for class, handmade chicken mignons (and vegetables with cheese saue of doom!) and some substantial work done on my website. Don’t look yet though because it has not been uploaded! it is in a half construction phase right now and a real…
I have been slack while we have been settling in and I have also been playing with some of my other favorite art forms, namely cooking and sewing. but I need to get going on my assignments so here is the first one. the assignment was to research artists who use multiples in some way.…
I forgot that I haven’t put up the reworked images that I did for the last folio. they are much better so I feel they deserve a look in. I felt like such an idiot worrying about a white on white still life when my computer table, monitor and computer already made up one! mark…
Jennie's Palette 