Reasearch Day 19th Oct

Today was are reasearch day where we had to develop are ideas we have had over the last few weeks so we could make a book or do more printing or painting etc. This is what i have really been wanting to do so i can show the tutors that i dont need them to motivate me to work and i can do it on my own and be equaly as productive or more so. 

So today i continued my drawings and painting of my five objects which i have edited slightly and placed them into a flower patch which i did useing photoshop and all the drawings and painting were from this image; 

From this image i produced a few drawings firstly just a basic copy in soft pencil then i did a water colour drawing from it then i did a line drawing of it and a charcoal image.

 

Then after this i did a drawing becuase i was feeling quite expressive which was going very well when i spent a large amount of time painting quite unlike how i usally paint but then neara to the end of the painting i went back to my old method which i love but just did not suit the image.. so i think i will have to back over this image. but still i think its an alright start but not finished :) 

Print Making 18th Oct

Today we did printmaking which i have never been too keen on but today i found it quite soving and really quite intresting more due to amount of patterns and differnat methods we did and this really gave a viraety of images which is just more intresting than a stright print. 

today my objects that i had cut outs of were, teddy bears, peppers, leafs and sissors. it was just a layering task which ended up being more about pattern than anything else. i used the theme of Autumn and teddy bears went on a picknick these were quite intresting and i was trying to get a sence of movement than anything else and pattern just oppeard walst i was doing this. 

Friday lecture + Week Evaluation 15st Oct

Patrick Shanahan Photography

Hes got 30 years of experiance and is going to talk about about how times in photography has changed. he started talking to us about his recent exhibition and then went on how he started and all, 


2009-10 Rupture; He was the ' fergot name' Gallery opening, he concentrats on the details of a landscape like the ground or small pebbles. he did this to draw atention on this tough area and the extent of polution still around. prodoinat colours are yeallow and oka. 

Studnet Days 1976-1982: he used to do alot of insutration work so to show his teachers his work he had to photograph theses. But when he showed his teachers he said that the photos were better than hes instructures! so he started taking photos of his freinds then his freinds of freinds and so on. He said he liked to take peoples photos in there own enviroment which i find quite similar to me becuase i love photographing people being normal and as if they dont even know i have a camera like the William Klien photos in his New York collection. Then by his 3r year he stoped all the skulpure and instructures and just focused on photography. When he left college he got a job very quickly in liverpool as a photographer leclturer, which helped him in to ways firstly he got very close with the local gallery and he also learnt more about photography as he was lectureing about it all! He then decided to do a MA in the royal college of photography


His passion was working in colour and getting true colours seen by everyone! and the area which was getting he really intrested was landscape.


Editonal and advertising commissions 1982-1994; he worked for the royal acadimany magazine and weekend magazines. He also photographed fellow artists like Peter Blake. he also did a large amount of comerical work which was very good for money and did cross processing. 


Personal Projects 1994+ his project called Esperantis lasted from 1998-2001 with this he  only photographed at night in spain because it started by not being able to photograph in the day because it was too hot so started at night and just worked so well. He got really intrested with artifially lit areas. then he did Amonentary Pressence 2002-2006 this is the sea very comerial style of photographing. then after that, that brings us back to the pressent. 


Week Evaluation 

 This week has been really intresting and i have learnt so many new things some of which i hate and some of which i think i'll continue to love. i've felt very inspired after this week and have gone off to do some more art and photograph beautiful areas and just in a fantastic mood all round! firstly Monday, i really enjoyed making a book it was quite boreing and not extremly hard just took some hard concentration but was really satisfiing when we finished becuase we had something to take home and use! someting i think i might do again or i would hope i find the courage to do on my own! So this was one of the areas of my week that really effected me because i had no idea it would be so satisfiing making books and just learnt so much becuase in the back of my head i always thought that making a book would not be easy! Then on Tusday we did painting which is just my passion, so this was somehting i'd been wanting to do for a lonnnnng time just get some paint and some large paper and get EXPRESSIVE! but there were some rules so this wasnt as my dream had lead me on but still i was one with my paint brush again which was nice. we did two paintings but i didnt like both of mine the only image i liked was on a rough paper were we experimented with lines and had to draw 10 lines for some reason this was on of my favourate images so far! Then on Wednesday we had a complet contrast of the last few days in a lecture which made me so angry and bored... Making things.. i just found this terrible and a waste of my time becuase it tought me nothing. enough said on Wednesday onto Thursday was such a releif having a day of JUST photography something i really enjoyed and made me think about if i wanted to do that next year full time but the only bad thing about doing that means my fine art would just not be as strong so my inital plans are do a fine art degree with a photography course ontop but who really knows! Then that brings us to today and today was a very educational and expressive day firstly we had a great lecture the best so far in my opinion from Patrick Shanahan about photography then i went down to this old abandend house and photographed it was fantastic to get such raw images was very very cool. so this week has been one of my favourate apart from a mundamn Wednesday. but i've really started to get suck into my art again which is so nice being able to lose all my school methods of thinking of art and just start doing art again becuase I want to!

Painting 14th Oct

As we all walked into the room knowning that today would be one of the best days of the week, dave starts talking instantly, talking about how its all about your vision, with out that the camera is pointless which is great words of wisdom! But words that have been spoken a meny a time. then he started talking to us about how the camera works and everyone was issused with a Nikon D70 and i have the D90 at home so this was very very easy for me just becuase there setting were identilcal so was an extremly easy day for me. dave talked to us about hour talking about sutter and aperture and what we need to do and asked us if we usally use the camera in automatic we should only use manual and visa versa.


Then we were given an hour to photograph the items on the table which was very boring but i guess for people who didnt really know how to use a camera it was a useful task. then we went back had a breif chat about what he needs at the end of the day and thats just our favourate image in A4 sent to him. (email; DCLARKE@FALMOUTH.AC.UK). Then we were aloud to go off for lunch and come a bit late to give us more time to take photos. 

Me and my freind james decided to go to the abandend pub to take photos of the glommyness and the broken. so we talked down there and took a large amount of photos.


I sent the 2nd last image to day.


Was a very inspirering day and something i feel like i could again and again!

Lecture; Making things. 13th Oct

today we had a lecture about making things which i thought maybe needed a 20minute talk instead of a hour and a half.. found it very pointless and didnt help me with my understading of making things at all. everything i was told i knew. 


So today we talked about 4 main topics theses were furnicture, fashion, arcutecture and printing textiles.


furnicture in my eyes was a very bad place to start.. she showed us quite dull peices and nothing inspirering at all. but she talked about bauhous and art moro. which are very sucessful disgners but i still dont find there work very intiresting i find simplism quite intresting but the rest for me is just over worked and unpractical. 


Then she talked about fashion, which i find very intresting but she was so breif on the subject and just talked about elsa shaperni with the lobster look... which was just boring. then talked about veonet and how she started cross grain.


Arcutecqure was very intriesting but she only talked about one person, Frankk Right who i agree is a fantastic Arcutec but i wanted to see some more diversity and some really abstract building something i think i will look at in my own time. 


Then printing textiles which is just about carpets.. and that was basicly it. didnt really look at the beautiful anceint carpits just skimmed the subject.


At the end of the day i was feeling very uninspired and went to the harbour to find some differant insperation.

Painting Workshop 12th Oct

Painting is my passion so this day i had been antisapating for a long time! i think of my self as a abstract passionate painter who can sometimes make abstractness into my own type of work by using abstract paiting and using landscapes together to really get a intresting image. 

As we walked into the room and we instantly started looking at differant artists tecneques and styles to really see who influences us and who is just a miss the artist i thought influenced me the most was jackson pollick becuase i love how he can find such an intresting way to move the paint around the page and i always try and find new ways to use my brush and usally end up chucking paint onto the canvus like the punk style of art. 

• harward hodgekin
• paul klee
• wassily kandirisky
• yosho kaiho
• xie zieng
• David hockney
• patrick caulfield
• lisa milroy
• fiona fore
• michael porter

what we are looking were, layers, loosely, long/ sweaping of the brush , blending, expressive, liniar, dabs, colours mixed on canvus, scraped, solid flowing, fluid, dry brush, bleeding, merging, farding, essence, minialis, simplistiy, weight/pressure of the brush, smooth, absence of the brush marks (very dry so gets vivid) masking taped edges, blot tonking. 

After looking at all these methods we had use to are bread and butter paper and split it into to pages. firstly we had to get a peice of bad paper and try all the differant types of brush strocks we did, then we examined everyones to see if there are any we could use! 

Then we had to use 5 objects from the table and only use 10 brush strokes to make a basic image with the chosen colour, mine was purple, then we swoped colours and were aloud to do another 10 strokes. 

then we had to chose a complementing colour and just fill in the background only on both images, then we we had another quick look at more artists. After that we were told we could do what we want to finish these images.

Book Making 11th Oct

Today we MADE A BOOK! which was not as boring as i thought it would be!

 

The book was done very easily, firstly we needed a cover which we were given then we needed 10 peices of A1 cartligue paper which we bought for £2 so the book cost me £2 to make when i could buy it for around £20 in a shop. dammn.

Firstly we needed to cut all the paper into A3 peices, then we had to start sowing them all together... which was quite long and tiering but so worth it for the final peice. Then we had to make a binding which was just layers of glue and faberic, then we could cut down the book if we wanted i didnt do this because i liked the raged edges. 

Then we had to make a carboard back for it which was just methering the trick with making a book was just patiences.. time... and boredom! then we stuck the fabric to the cardbored used special glue to the book and had to press it for 2mins then when we got home had to leave it to dry and press for another 6 hours. then poofff its finished :)

Lecture Perspective and illusions. 6th Oct

When we scan an image we all try to read and decode an image to try and understnad the artist and see the reaction that he is trying to make us feel. there are 5 main areas they try to get this through to us, these are; 

• Colour
• Light
• Focus
• Scale
• Overlap
• figuration 

 Colour, the enviroment inwhich the most natral images even is there are only two colour present, together the ligher colour always stands above the other, and feels pure; artists to look at are mark rothko and matisse, 

(obtained from http://www.writedesignonline.com/resources/design/rules/rhythm-pattern.html  Oct 18th 2010)


Matisse was a French painter who was fasinated by colour, this image is one of his most famous images and i thought it just sumed up colour. and how even a little bit of flat colour can make movement. 

Light, in real life we reliy heavily on  the effects of light to reconise objects structure and form, and phsically navigate area lives in the enviroment. Artists are very keen to show light becuase it gives there image a sence of purpose and structure, artists to look at are martin lewis.


(obtained in; http://www.artnet.com/artwork/426061483/423903488/martin-lewis-spring-night-greenwich-village.html)

Martin Lewis was an Australian artist who was obsested by light and in nearly all his images light is the main factor in this image light shows all the detail and with out it would just be a black image. 


Focus is the clarity nd sharpness of an image. We have much sharper eye when it is nearer to use a intresting artist to look at is, Mark Francis. 


Figuration, comes with space and comes with the own spatial cue, artists can create a sence of depth by just placing objects around a room. like a wide angle lens when you use a camera. Eg Martin Parr. 


Scale. If objects vary in size in an image it can make the viewer very confused and feel quite out of place and makes the view really look differantly than just a stright forward image. 


Overlap when comporents of an image over it has a sematery effect. Patrick Cauifeild is a great beliver of this and over laps most of his images. Its intresting becuase he knows that hes breaking the artistic rules. when we can see therory overlaping objects a sence of confusion happens. 


History.

 Egyptions have just got the own language of art which are usally Fiezes and wall decoration this could be because all there other medias have just disintigrated. Everything else has just gone. strong sence of over laping hapens like a cartoon there wall decoration is two harizontal and there giving us infomation rather than just art. its not a photographic drawing its just data to them. In Egyption drawings the larger the person in the image the more important he is shows aurthority and importance. 

Classical greece replaced egyption drawing with a naturalistic type of drawing more for beatey and enjoyment rather than data.

With roman and Greek we get the incolment to look of it compareing it to egyption where it is as it is. Romans enjoyed painting and decoration for there own entertainment. Art was once again repersented as power and relign. 

 Perspective 1 point, (Drawing in my sketch book Obtained from; http://www.ider.herts.ac.uk/school/courseware/graphics/one_point_perspective.html

Perspective 2 Point (obtained from; http://kingfishers.ednet.ns.ca/art/grade10/drawing/perspective3.html)

Perspective 3 Point (obtained from; http://harvestart.blogspot.com/2010/04/two-point-perspective.html)

Trial Day Induction to most! 5th Oct.

Print making

Firstly we went down to the Print making room to be inducted to use all the equiptment down there. the first part of the day was talking about Health and Safty. These were pretty basic health and saft eg, always were shoes and the aprons, no music and no eating etc. 

after this we were shown how to do a stencil.. which i thought was rather obvious but still was nice to see another artists approach to making a stencil. For when we have the full day down in the printing room we need to do 5 stencils (1 cut only to make it easy) should be simple, a serious of images compined and layered up to get a good compostion, maybe a sequence of your object like Andy Warhol's Canned soup.Then we were told for are day with the print making that we needed 5 stencils. I've done print making before and didnt really enjoy it i'll have to judge after i've done it again. 


Book making;

Then we had a very quick look on book making, which ment we needed 10 A1 peices of paper for the next day. we were given quick instructions on how to make the book which sounded very long.. and boreing.. and something i instantly thought would be crap. book making really dosent sound like my specialism! The instructions were A1 paper cut into A3 peices of paper. then fold the pages, then make start soeing them together.. then make a binding and cover and walha! your done. 


Photography


Photography was my favourate of the day, i think this is becuase its a media which i know and very fond of, the teacher we had was called dave and instatly was my hero just really really knows his area of expertes, extremely intresting and smart. we were told about the aperture and shutter stuff i had known before but its always right to be rememinded. A really intresting fact i was told was that camera phones show us more colours than we realy see, if you shine a tv remote at a camera and take the photo you see infered. in photography we were told the 3 main objects for this year in photography are; 

• explore
• recording of are work
• learn new methods 

then another big question was ' whats photography?' all of us gave alot of differant opinions but daves opinion was, ' the recording of light on a subject dimentional reduction.' he told us that if we always used automatic we have to only use manual with him, and if we use manual mostly we have to only use automatic. i usally use automatic if i'm just shooting down the street or in surounding which move around constantly, but i do really like doing manual photos as well, and if i'm doing a shoot or if i'm just taking landscape photos.


colour (GET NEW NOTES)

Objects Colour and drawing. Oct 4th

On friday we were told that we needed to bring 12 objects, 1 black, 1 white, 9 man made and 3 nateral the items these needed to be a solid colour as well so i brought were; 

• black tea cup
• white rock
• peice of wood
• rock
• leaf
• canaster
• button
• old keys
• pink flower
• balloon 
• small yellow pot
• plastic pig

On Monday we all arrived to welington terrise, this ment that there was 60 X 12 objects which meant nearly 720 objects to sort out.. firstly we put all of the in colour order from; red - orange - yellow - green - blue - indigo - black then to white/gray. This took us a long time to sort out 700+ objects. then after that we did a very quick line drawing of this but walking around the tables and do a near 360(Deg) walk so we draw all angles of nearly all the objects. 


After this we had a quick lunch then came back to continue are sorting out. This time we had to do alphabetically so this took a long time because everyone had differant words for some objects. this ment it was very random for some of the objects. After this we all had to select around 7 objects take them to a quite place and draw them from birds eye view, side veiw, angled view and then we had to do a view where all the objects were the same size to do this we had to place the small objects really close and the large objects very far away this was by far the hardest drawing. 


today i have really enjoyed cataloging all the infomation and the drawing in the afternoon was quite peaceful becuase we could instead of looking at hundreds of objects just focus on a few which really makes you appreciate the lines and infomation given to us. 





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Friday lecture + Week Evaluation 1st Oct

Next year courses lecture. 

(orginal ideas; slade, st martins, gap year, work experiance)

we where told when thinking about next year we need to think about;

• what do i want in the future?
• what type of art does this invole?
• what are courese generlly looking for?  

WWW.UCAS.COM     emplyment? work experiance? gapyear? anyworkanywhere.com 

(ucas buzzword = foundationfalmouth)


Location? do i want to be in a city or in a village? i think i want to be in a city for the main reason that i can work at the same time as do my course and i'll create so many more mainstreem conections there instead of somewhere more local. 


Then after we had the talk about Next year ideas and what i need to be thinking about we had quite a quick talk from Andy the Animation guy and he showed us a few videos of his ideas and his creations. 


Week evaluation 

This week has been a very intresting week just on the tip of really starting the course. Which is very exciting becuase i can't wait to really get stuck into it! On monday we did animation and this was the first time i have ever done it, so i was really eger to go try it out thinking we would have a lot of time and i'd be able to create a really intresting image. My image was my face with my hand slowly slide down my face then my tung sticks out and my face is screded and fades into a blank page, then i used my real hand to click, then slowly a cigerette packet starts to come up from the bottom of the page and my sliced face fills the gaps in the packet were the cigerettes would go. then that fades into the next persons face but i havnt decided how to do that. i found animation quite fun but very tedious maybe a hobby but nothing more becuase the idea of months just drawing.. i think i'd go insane! Then tusday i wasnt feel very well.. felt ill and all day so i wasnt as productive as i should have been but i still tried my best on something i found completly boreing.. paper modle making.. where we had to bring an image we had done before and brake it down and make a 3d model from it. i found this extremly boring... i ended up making a rose becuase its an object i've always loved and an object i always paint. On Wednesday we had a lection on about lines which was very intresting to see how lines effect everything we do and you cant do art with out any lines what so ever be it little or big. We also talked about the histery of drawing how pencils were only created 500 years ago so before that it was much harder but there was still amazing drawing produced pre-1500ac. On Thursday we did a layering excersise which i really enjoyed because we were doing quite a free drawing so i could be more expressive than i have be able to be in the last few weeks which was really fun and hard to get back into being expressive after being doing alot of very tight and percided drawings. then that brings us today and i was quite intrested into the next year ideas but its still very eairly days.. but in the after noon i went to the harbour and took a large amount of photos becuase the sky was fantastic and then did a few drawings which i didnt really like.. but this week has been very intresting and i've started to draw slower and really look harder than i have ever looked before!

History Drawings (layering) 30th Sept

We were told the day before that we needed to bring are skulpture that we made and 1 reflective ojbect, 1 manmade object and 1 nateral object, i  brought;

• my flower skulpture
• inside out crisp packet ( reflective)
• cigerette packet ( man made) 
• peice of wood ( naterial ) 

what we did was firstly do a observational drawing of it, then move all the objects around randomly, then just move the man made and naterial objects to where each other was. then we had to increase or decrease the sizez of each object to make it really out of preportion then we had to  turn it upside down. 

my image was very abstract half way because i decided to use charcoal. I thought the image would not turn out to look like anything at all but with all the images on top of each other i saw my small paper flower opearing from the drawing which was very intresting to see and thought me if you just persist with a drawing it will turn out how you want it to.
 

Lecture; What is a line? 29th Sept

Firstly a proper definition of drawing is, 'the representation of when one tone meets another' 

• Shape
• Form
• Tone
• Texture

Lines are just here to represent an image.

Are brain automatily see's in 3d because we have 2 eyes giving us the illustion of depth but when we draw if we close one eye it is much easier to see the hard lines needed to be used for this image. There is always a sence when your drawing something in 2d that you feel its wrong because are brain is telling us that the object is really a 3d object most of the time. 

where 2 tones meet we see a line. line drawing lines can represent many differnat thinks, but taken at its simplist level they all represent one area of tone meeting another area of time.

pencils are only 500 years ol. before then people did meld point drawingi, silver wire drawings, charcola, chalk and coloured chalk facters effecting line; how you hold it, what your drawing on?

key artists for impseration with lines are;

• paul klee (talked about taking a line for a walk)
• Lewis Cornpbell
• John farleigh (woodcut)
• Henry moore (sheep)

Illusory of space.

weight, tonal, values, character, position and focuas all effect of the way an image looks, darker, larger and distance.

 

Maquette paper skulpture. 28th Sept

On Monday we were told to bring an image that we had drawn or painted before becuase we would be using it as the raw elements of are skulpture, so i brought an image of a flower becuase i have always liked the form of flowers and thought a skulpture would be intresting. we firstly trased over are orginal image a few times then cut out areas of it and stuck them together to get an skulpture.

i did not enjoy this becuase i have a very 2d way of looking and thats why i love my paintings so much and i dont like the complet control i have with paper compared to something i'm controling completly. 

"space, explore and understand space!"

Animation 27th Sept

Today we are going to start are Animation section of the course, i've never been too keen on animation just becuase i find repeating my self very hard becuase my lines when i draw are very expressive so its hard to repeat this through 100+ images. 

In a stop start motive film they have 20 images a second so thats 1200 images if you have a 1miniute slot. so the old animated films had thousands of images. there are ways to get around this though.

• you can draw your image on a peice of asitate so then instead of drawing the image out a large amount of times you just move the asitate very very slightly when taknig the image of it. this might mean it does not look very real because your image is not facialy moving so the long method does end up looking better. but would also take you a few extra years! 
• you can do a double gap which would mean its a bit slower but means you only need to do half the amount so instead of clicking 4 times you could click 8 times meaning it would be slower.

The task we had to do was quite simple but when we have all finished it will come together really well i think, we start off with;

Self portrait, then tranform into, are object (cigerate packet) then transform into the next persons first image so its a flow film. 

The day was fun and something i thought i would really hate turned out quite intresting alot of tedious drawing but i still felt i had achived something.

Friday + Week Evaluation 24th Sept

Portait Of an Artist

Alex schady 

first video was of an angry fox on a beach, his response to the beach in general. 

when you dont htink and try to make art, art just happens! he constantly repeated! 

'Crap Jobs' - Problem soliving are in are brain! because we just think differantly to everyone!

 5years, artists run space. gallery and studieos (www.fiveyears.org.uk) 

Oliver West.

 Visual thinking! - his stratigy was to make us right down are doodles! and they can be used as notes for us because we will remember and understand what hes talking about. 

( WWW.Oliverwest.net) start selling asap risk it! worth a try just to get your name out there. prinkt making is a great way becuase you can do editions so easily!  and make sure my art always increases in value and never drops other wise customers will feel they wasted there money.. when people by art they generaly think its going to increase in value so this would really ruin you. He was a fellow EXTREME DYSLEXIC! call for help if i ever need; oliverwestfootnotes@gmail.com

This has been the most educational week so far! also the first week! so thats saying something! :) the things i have learnt are;

• team work
• scale drawing
• my brain (oliver west) 
• not being so protective over my images 

On monday we did scale drawing which i hate! but i know i need to improve it because its one of the fundimentals needed for fine art! so evan though i found this week VERY HARD! i have persuised and persissited and tried my hardests thought out even i hated a task and thought it was pointless. On tusday we did wide anglewhere we had 6 hours to do one image which by the end of the day looked still very empty which was not what i was aiming for but i did really like my image and thought i'd already improved my drawing skill which i guess is GOOD! but a task i think i should continue to do just to improve my drawing but not one i will enjoy.. atleast untill i perfect it. On wednesday we had a long lecture which was titled " what is a drawing" when we were talking about how art is an international langueage. this was very intresting to hear because i had never thought of art as a language but now i've see the light i cant stop thinking about it! and what to comunicate with someone i have never meet from another world or country by imergy! Then i took my sketch book and film camera out and drew and took a few images of the docks. Thursday was my favourate day of the week! i really relaly enjoyed doing the team activity and was really satisfied by are image evan though it was washed away at the end of the day i still felt i had something to show for all my hard work! This thought us that we really cant get attached to are work. By the end of the day we all axcepted that we would lose are image but we all still had a large smile on are faces just becuase we knew we had finished :)  Then on the friday we had a really intresting lecture  from Alex Schady and Oliver West, i found alex schady quite dim.. and patrinizing.. so i was not very intrested in his talk at all! he only really talked about the real basics.. some of which i was already doing.. the only part i enjoyed of his was the film which was very querky and funny. But Oliver West was really really intresting and i thought i really connected with him and i was a very similar person to him with extreme dyslexia ( if you hadnt noticed yet) and he was talking about methods of organization and remebering and learning which i found really useful so that made up for the other guy! something i would happily watch again.

Gwithian Trip to the Beach. 23rd Sept

Today was a team art session! on wednesday we where told what we needed to do and where put into are groups to get ready for the next day are task when we went to the beach was to create an image using the beach as are canvsis. this ment we could do anything within are time limit which was 6 hours. 

So are group gatherd around outside and discused what ideas we all thought and i sugested Banksy because i thought it was a realistic artist to do on the beach with the amount of time we had and i thought the contrast of an anceint beach and a very modern and controvertal artist would look fantastic from the cliffs. so we went to the liberay and had a look through the bansky books to find out what image to do and what would look good on the beach, we all decided rather quickly that girl with the heart balloon would be the best object and look best as if she was flying from the cliffs. 

When we got to the beach we had a long walk looking for the perfect area, then we started to scale a rectangle for are image and then me and sophie drew out the whole figure as the others started to DIG! Are group did a completly differant method to everyone else, everyone was just drawing into the sand which did not had alot of depth to it, but we dag deep trenches all over and built up sand and used alot of HARD LAYBOUR! then after i drew the out lines for the image i was incharge of the balloon which i had to build up to about a foot high which is alarge amount of sand!! then i flatend the sand and i had sneakily brought my spray paint becuase i wanted to make the balloon red like banksy, so i sprayed the balloon to give it a really amazing feel to the image. 

This taksed really helped with my team work and i learn that i'm beter leading and giving instructions than be told what to do. i also really improved my scale drawing because we really had to make it a large image for it to stand out so we even had poeple on the cliffs telling us what to do at times which helped. but was a truly enormous image! We also learnt not to get too attached to are image! :( because about 30mins after we had finished the sea had stolen it way from us!

Lecture; What is Drawing? 22nd sept

The definition of drawing is HUGE! but some of the main ones are, to pull or open or shut to attack, to suck to take or remove to obtain from a sauce, to produce and image, to finish a game with no winner and to draw a bridge... ETC! 

"Making marks on a surface (often by dragging) mark express of repsent and idea!" 

:) (wrong way) Art is a universal language which everyone has understanding of. This makes art extremly useful and powerful in use. Children draw from the heart, when they startschool its very competitive and eventerally quit drawing becuase they feel everyone judges them and people, and it does not come from the heart and soul anymore. On averge children stop drawing at 10years. 

Paul Noble; very detailed drawing (personal world)
Picaso; Very personal and unique drawing. 
Leonardo da Vinici 

Drawing can be imporised*


Sensory drawing, there show how much imagery can be xoaxed frmo the imagiination and memory.


HOW DO WE SEE??? 


eyes, most preditors and primates have similer eyes you flaten objects by looking through one eye.  "visual practice in the west from renaissance to the 19th centery could be used by the victorian world through a single lens."


Life drawing is like looking at proportion and structure. we will explore floor storting.


Expressive life drawing personal and individual


Recording and analysing this material world. 


drawing in the rennaisance period particulary of the human form and architecture, reached a level of expertiesee that has not been supersed since in a pre-photographic world drawing played a much bigger roll. 


Obseruational dlrawing process


nickila hicks, frank gehry both are post modern


drawing like riding a bike can be easily learn but alot of people think that drawing is a born talent. Improves with practice needs constant exercise, its presented to others; declines if you reglect when you reach a certain level of expertise it starts to generate its own reward and surpise.

Wide Angle Drawing 21st Sept

90 (degree) image eye level - foot 10-15 bits.

• lines are not always streight even if we know they are
• we acted like a camera (Hockney) 
• fousing the whole room not a small object
• tiring eyes constant working, shaks the thundimentals of your mind which really puts stress and panic onto your self becuase even if you know its right it might look wrong.

Today was a long long long long long long long longggg day we had to do a 5hour drawing which i was used to with paint but never done before with a pencil. We too a photo with are mind and lost of others 90(deg) from eye level down to are own feet. which gave us a wide angle image. like a david hockney image. we had to do 10-15 bits i did 13 which was a good number for me i thought. This task i was dreading to be honist but never did i think i would enjoy it and find i really loved my finished product. The day went extremly fast and by the end i thought 5 hours was too short! and i could hapily have another 3 hours on this image. This aws just a simple tecneque which i will continue to use thought out my artist life just because i really helps to scale out an image.

Scale Drawings 20th Sept

Day starts at welington terris at 9am. what we needed to bring to it was 2X A1, ruler, view finder, rubber! 

we did, 4X scale drawing ( which is one of my weak points) 

'Scale drawing is the devil' i find that theses are extremly hard but one if not the essental of art and something i need to perfect over time but i can still hate doing them, which gives me more reason to do them everyday untill i love them! Its just hours of soft lines with little extression which is not my enjoyment of art but i know its something i need to be able to do. 

The first 3 images we did was set up for us and i stupidly decided to choose the hardest objects... which was possible the most complex objects in the room. i had a toilot shaped object which was very dificult to draw becuase its so round theres no hardlines meaning it have infinity lines so its hard to make it look round with out using any shading. and if i move the slightest it means that the whole object moves meaning that i have completly have to start to prevent this i marked where my esile was with masking tape and where my feet where wiith masking tape.  the first image was just a basic scale drawing then the second drawing was half scale then the 3rd drawing was double scale or even smaller. then after this we could choose what objects and what compostion we could do which i found quite fun and satisfiing exept for the fact that i went off and did a very wild free expressive drawing which after 40minutes i relixed that i really should start again and do a small soft tight drawing.. the image did not come out as bad as i thought.

Lecture; Fine Art.

The mystery of being an artist how do you get established and how do you sell and make a living? 

alison was talking about how artists make money and projects that you can do to get started and have 'Free' exhibitions. including large artist events and sharing studeo space. It was a really intresting talk but one i have many a time by my parents who are both in the art world and who insist on me knowing what i get my self into before i become an artist so i have heard all of theses methods and ideas and many more from my dad, so i found this talk slightly tedious just because i already knew this. the hardest bit for an artist in my eyes and my dads eyes is the cash flow knowing that you can have no money and have to find money to pay for suplies then having alot or some money once you sell a peice. But i did like to see other artists ideas on the topic. 

Friday Evaluation for the first week. 

The week has been one of the best weeks of my life just to be able to find people who i can connect artisticly with and who talk and work the same way as i do in a completly lateral way comperd to the general public who think up and down. the social has been my favourate part so far but to be honist we have barley done any art so i'm sure as the course continues art will become more and more intresting and just being around arty people is making me get out of the house and do some quick drawings. This week we were just learning what we would learn over the year meeting the tuters and just getting introuduced to student life. which has made me extremly excited for the year to come! But made me quite fustracted because all i really wanted to do was start the course! and get onto some PROPER ART!

My favourate day so far was thursday becuase of the partner activity which i have never done before so i found it really intresing how other people work and to have other peoples honist opinions and i think this is something i could hapily do again just becuase it was so easy. we did a layering and mark mkaing task which was rubbing out are work which really helped me get over my presurness of my art work and tought me very quickly to not get to close to what i make.

So for my first week i have done everything possible and really enjoyed every momment of it and know its only going to get better as the year continues. i can't wait untill the course starts just so i can get my self out of a school method of art and just ferget everything i have been tought before i came here and too teach me to SEE AGAIN! because i have lost my eyyes and want to learn and gain my eyes this year so i'm prepared for the next step! 

A Great First Week One Of Many!

Model Drawing ways of seeing. 16th Sept

Very erily in the morning i woke up to make an abstract object, using miterials with intresting textures and sizes, i used;

• chrismas decoration
• spray paint gas mask
• alot of rubber bands 
• sweats
• glue
• masking tape 
• gliter  

                                       Brain, to hand, to, look, back to Brain a triangle of looking. 

Relative artists;

• jason pollock
• chuck close 

When we ariced at the marin space we had to pick a freind to do the exerize with, i picked my mate called sam becuase i know he was a passionate skulpture so i thought he would have a very intresting and fun object to draw. we then had to draow there object 3 time. firstly he descrived his object which was very hard becuase we were not aloud to see and he was not aloud to say any of the items he used so when describing a ball for example it was like, ' a cirle which is 3D' this ment confusion oppeard! then we felt there object which i found much easier but we were still not aloud to see there object this was much more fun i felt in contrast. 

Then after that we were aloud to look at the object, the images that i drew were not too far off the first image was missing some main areas but when i was aloud to feel the object i got the basic shape and was strangly correct with the proportions and everything. but still they were both reconaizerbly his object. 

This excersive i found really useful and important for me about my description and trusting my partner and his instructions. 

After this we had lunch and went back to draw are own image, 2 times firstly a continuous line drawing which i enjoyed and looked quite good and abstract like the rabbit head from donny darko and then a drawing which was only aloud to be patterns which we had chosen before which gave are image a starnge look. 

Lecture; On a lecture 15th Sept

The main reason for lecture are; to inform and contextless your studeo work, provide basis for further research. Attendance is very important! If you miss you can never get that work back! 

Lectures are only a starting point and should follow it up after wards (online or in the libery) discusing lectures with mates is a another great to further your knologe. 

Over the year we get 3 writen assiments and a contextual essy (cataloge also needed at the end of the year) 

in the letures we get;

• Guest Artiests & Designers

We also need to do 500 words weekly in journal and 10-15 evaluatiing each day. (30% of the course) feed back, positive and negative moments. 

The Harvard Referencing System. 

It allows other to check your sources, this ensures your data and lets them explore your research from the start! show your understardings'! you should always show respect for others work. 

• make good points a note
• should highlight, scrib, underline
• use data of differnt methods of research
• always read your fournal
• keep a quote page. 

There is a libery record sheet, which is good for finding infomation about what you had just been doing. 


2 Part to e very referance.

Short version where we just quote quickly and a long verion at the end. 


Name;               Date;            Title;                                 Place of publication;            Producer;
Vergo, Peter.     1993.    Art in Vienna          (3rd edn)      London;                    Phaition
                                                                        edition; 


When coping a link make sure you leave the full adress and the date of the adress becuase websites update alot! 



Contextual Studies 

Main topics; Modernism and post moderism
                     1850-1960s               1960+ 


Modern in art histery does not mean up-to-date. it refers to a specific era of time. its on unbrella term eg cubism, expressism, alive artists can work with a modernistic aproach. 


some people argue taht a modernist is not a period but a sat of mind. 


always alow alot of differant view points that always positive and negative points.


POST = AFTER


what are the differances of post mod & mod? 

Modernism

• functional
• simple 
• purist
• streight
• transporent 

Post Modern 

• semiotic
• complex
• eclemtie
• humourous
• ambigous

surface and abstraction 

Weeping woman, picasso spot asap that hes a modernist, Georges Braque, very much a modernist. In contrast Frank sktella flat point, who is extremly post mod. and jeff koons doing some neo pop art which is also very post mod.

The Art Start! 14th Sept

Today we did a layering task on A0 page where we would do mark making all over the same image the day went like this;

• 60mins, starting to do marks trying to cover the hole image with marks. 
• 30mins, move 12 places to are right to some1 elses image and start working on theres add to theres so it was a group image. 
• 60mins, then we went back to are image and rubbed down are image.
• LUNCH 
• 60mins, then we had to work on it again and try and find random shapes and images that oppeard from are marks. 
• 30mins, we had to go to anyone elses image and try and add are imput by helping them find other images. 
• 30mins, then we finaly went back to are image and had are last bit of time to finish it.

This task was stimulatiing but fustracting at the same time. i thought it was a really intresting leason which tought us about not getting to worked up by and image and rubbing it down so we wernt to presous about are work and about team work. i was fustracted by the team work because i left very small areas of white becuase i knew we were going to do a large amount of layers and i did not want a very dark image, but when we swoped the person that worked on mine did not relize this and did a very hard dark scribble.. which was not what i planned but i persisted and ended up with an image i did not mind. but the second person who worked on my trying to find images really helped and saw alot of images i had missed which was a useful helping hand.