Blending acrylic paint - needs paint, paper and paint brush
Techniques used: painting 2 or more colours into each other in small strokes to create a blended effect.
Health and Safety: I painted away from others work and painted so that the thin wooden end of the brush was turned away from me
I decided I should use blending in my poster
Tuesday, 26 June 2012
Monday, 25 June 2012
artist for poster thing
Richard Hamilton (1922-2011)
Works with collage, using existing works for his own
He seems to take his ideas for his work from the world around him - much of his work is a social comment
His work is inspirational because he was one of the first of his kind. Pop Art (the art form he used) was very new at the time he started using it. That and the social context
The picture uses images from other places, put together to make a room. The room has been arranged show both a comfortable room, but also a highly consumerist room.
The whole picture is a feature, but the people stand out most because a) they are black-and-white while the rest of room is colour. The artist has made a spiral effect to the picture so the eye moves around like that
Ideas from his work:
collage
colour, mixed with black-and-white
constraints: not use too much - make everything thing important.
Works with collage, using existing works for his own
He seems to take his ideas for his work from the world around him - much of his work is a social comment
His work is inspirational because he was one of the first of his kind. Pop Art (the art form he used) was very new at the time he started using it. That and the social context
The whole picture is a feature, but the people stand out most because a) they are black-and-white while the rest of room is colour. The artist has made a spiral effect to the picture so the eye moves around like that
Ideas from his work:
collage
colour, mixed with black-and-white
constraints: not use too much - make everything thing important.
Evaluation of Self-Portrait
The materials I used for the final piece were water colour pencils, paints, and oil pastels with a stencil. I should probably have used poster paints or a proper stencil brush for the paints and left the pastels.My working methods were similar to throwing things together to see how they worked, but with more planning.
The only Health and Safety issues were with the stencil as the knife kept slipping. Aside from making it, the stencil would have been easy to use had I used the right equiptment.
For the most part, my equiptment and materials were just paints and brush, but I also used glitter and glue, oil pastels, water colour pastels and colour pencils. Only the glitter was noticably difficult to use - it took a while for the glue to dry and keep the glitter attched, but still comes off. Also, it has not added to my research in any way. so there was very little point in using it, unlike the rest of the head studies.
I experimented with stencil (as mentioned above) and pastels and paint. I combined these in my final piece, where there is the main drawing of me in my room, with the stencil running in lines up and down the piece. It gives a strange 3D/2D look to the picture, and suggests there are several sides to me from the use of colour. I didn’t just make every stencil a different colour, I also changed the colours in the picture as well - for example, my hair is dark brown, but in the picture it is light blue; and my top is blue, but I changed it to red. This, again, may suggest there is another side to me, or a reflection of the way I think | am seen by others, or possibly how I would like to be seen. These are accentuated by the range of textures and media used. The right hand side of the picture is left messy because I am often messy.
I have used the principle of thirds, but the main image of me is right in the center. The stenciled pictures in lines add a sort of rhythm
The only Health and Safety issues were with the stencil as the knife kept slipping. Aside from making it, the stencil would have been easy to use had I used the right equiptment.
For the most part, my equiptment and materials were just paints and brush, but I also used glitter and glue, oil pastels, water colour pastels and colour pencils. Only the glitter was noticably difficult to use - it took a while for the glue to dry and keep the glitter attched, but still comes off. Also, it has not added to my research in any way. so there was very little point in using it, unlike the rest of the head studies.
I experimented with stencil (as mentioned above) and pastels and paint. I combined these in my final piece, where there is the main drawing of me in my room, with the stencil running in lines up and down the piece. It gives a strange 3D/2D look to the picture, and suggests there are several sides to me from the use of colour. I didn’t just make every stencil a different colour, I also changed the colours in the picture as well - for example, my hair is dark brown, but in the picture it is light blue; and my top is blue, but I changed it to red. This, again, may suggest there is another side to me, or a reflection of the way I think | am seen by others, or possibly how I would like to be seen. These are accentuated by the range of textures and media used. The right hand side of the picture is left messy because I am often messy.
I have used the principle of thirds, but the main image of me is right in the center. The stenciled pictures in lines add a sort of rhythm
Dark Room
The contact sheet (dark photos, and didnt have the light bright enough/on long enough)
test photo - where the photo is exposed for 2, 4, 6 and 8 seconds
final image, went for 4 seconds as that exposure had the best image quality
Friday, 22 June 2012
essay hist. art and photography
Art and photography are intimately intertwined. Photography is, for the most part, a branch of art. Using the same techniques and styles to create a beautiful, meaningful picture, or just get the message across.
However, art in the traditional sense has also been irreversibly changed to accommodate this new medium. While for many centuries pencil, paint and stone were some of the few mediums available to capture the world and events as accurately as possible, Photography was suddenly able to do this much faster and more accurately than anything before it - however carefully drawn. This meant that artists were much less necessary for deliberately capturing an image, they were therefore more able to express themselves in which ever way they saw fit. This extra freedom led to the copious art movements of the late 19th century and much of the 20th.
Before the camera, battles had to be drawn after the event, coronations, weddings (if drawn at all), children, anything moving, had to be drawn from memory or imagination, and so were often flawed. Portraits would take several days, and the subject would have to sit very still for hours on end, meaning many portraits often looked rather stiff. Paintings and sculptures, however, could be changed, photographs were often stuck in the form they was taken in, difficult to edit, and always black-and-white. There was, it seemed, still room for art in commercial works.
The changes seen in art became gradually more radical, from the Impressionists onwards. The changes ranged from incessantly busy pieces, to 'minimalist' pieces of art by the 1960's. The industrial revolution had an equally impressive impact on art as photography - though there is a good chance that it was the combination of the two that made the changes so fast paced.
While the whole world had been trudging along working as best it could with nature, heavy industry was making everything faster, better, stronger than many traditional methods and pushing the little guy out. It led to the widespread rise of cities, and the shrinkage of rural communities. Many people were often brought up in wildly different surroundings to their forefathers, and that included many artists. Some found greater solace in open spaces, others wanted to fill them. This meant that some artists became more fascinated, however less 'in touch' with the countryside when they visited it, while others couldn't successfully accustom themselves to the quietness and peace, and the lack of people.
The advent of the Box camera - a camera that had 100 exposures in it, and once all used, would be sent back to the factory, where the film was developed and returned to the owner - also meant that, as well as making the camera more a accessible to a wider audience, it again helped to make artists redundant.
Photography, coupled with the continually advancing world pushed against
art for capturing things; art became a source, not for depicting what
was happening as accurately as possible, but purely for depicting what
the artist saw, how they saw it - such as Picasso and his painting
'Guernica'. Instead of showing everything as it was, his jagged, Cubist
style showed more pain and suffering than the traditional art styles. In
short, art became art for arts self.
Cubism opened the door for more experimental works, such as Surrealism and Dadaism. Both new styles found photography a helpful element, where they could take a photograph and then draw from it, instead of from memory and getting the details they wanted to include in the pieces wrong.
Photography was a fairly quick (if not yet easy) way to remember the world around the artist. capturing things of interest and storing the information safely. Unlike memory, the images remained accurate in a way the memory cant. It thus made accuracy easier for the detailed, life-like drawings of some artists, and, through tearing, folding, moving, easy to distort the image (whether to make an abstract image, or a simply more interesting one).
This easy to tear, distort etc image helped artists such as Dubliner Francis Bacon who torn images up to make new images. Taking several photographs of the subject and then taking a Cubist approach, trying to show as much of the subject as possible in the one image, tearing the photographs up and placing them together in a new and, to him at least, exiting order, or folding them to make a new image. Photography made it easier for this artist to abandon the traditions and restraints of traditional art and the reality of what he could see.
Photography also changed advertising, often being easier to make prints from, and, during the 1950s, the source of many prints designed to sell drinks, food, soaps and other domestic or luxury items and appliances. In old non-fiction books, there were often adverts for related items throughout, with a mixture of photographic and drawn prints; which over the next few decades became more and more photo based, leading to pop art (art based on old advertising styles) becoming an actual art movement, spawning Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstien.
However, art in the traditional sense has also been irreversibly changed to accommodate this new medium. While for many centuries pencil, paint and stone were some of the few mediums available to capture the world and events as accurately as possible, Photography was suddenly able to do this much faster and more accurately than anything before it - however carefully drawn. This meant that artists were much less necessary for deliberately capturing an image, they were therefore more able to express themselves in which ever way they saw fit. This extra freedom led to the copious art movements of the late 19th century and much of the 20th.
Before the camera, battles had to be drawn after the event, coronations, weddings (if drawn at all), children, anything moving, had to be drawn from memory or imagination, and so were often flawed. Portraits would take several days, and the subject would have to sit very still for hours on end, meaning many portraits often looked rather stiff. Paintings and sculptures, however, could be changed, photographs were often stuck in the form they was taken in, difficult to edit, and always black-and-white. There was, it seemed, still room for art in commercial works.
The changes seen in art became gradually more radical, from the Impressionists onwards. The changes ranged from incessantly busy pieces, to 'minimalist' pieces of art by the 1960's. The industrial revolution had an equally impressive impact on art as photography - though there is a good chance that it was the combination of the two that made the changes so fast paced.
While the whole world had been trudging along working as best it could with nature, heavy industry was making everything faster, better, stronger than many traditional methods and pushing the little guy out. It led to the widespread rise of cities, and the shrinkage of rural communities. Many people were often brought up in wildly different surroundings to their forefathers, and that included many artists. Some found greater solace in open spaces, others wanted to fill them. This meant that some artists became more fascinated, however less 'in touch' with the countryside when they visited it, while others couldn't successfully accustom themselves to the quietness and peace, and the lack of people.
The advent of the Box camera - a camera that had 100 exposures in it, and once all used, would be sent back to the factory, where the film was developed and returned to the owner - also meant that, as well as making the camera more a accessible to a wider audience, it again helped to make artists redundant.
Cubism opened the door for more experimental works, such as Surrealism and Dadaism. Both new styles found photography a helpful element, where they could take a photograph and then draw from it, instead of from memory and getting the details they wanted to include in the pieces wrong.
Photography was a fairly quick (if not yet easy) way to remember the world around the artist. capturing things of interest and storing the information safely. Unlike memory, the images remained accurate in a way the memory cant. It thus made accuracy easier for the detailed, life-like drawings of some artists, and, through tearing, folding, moving, easy to distort the image (whether to make an abstract image, or a simply more interesting one).
Photography also changed advertising, often being easier to make prints from, and, during the 1950s, the source of many prints designed to sell drinks, food, soaps and other domestic or luxury items and appliances. In old non-fiction books, there were often adverts for related items throughout, with a mixture of photographic and drawn prints; which over the next few decades became more and more photo based, leading to pop art (art based on old advertising styles) becoming an actual art movement, spawning Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstien.
evaluation for masks project
The aim of the project was to show the model, while also hiding her at the same time. Initially I wanted to make the whole picture green - using a green background, face/body paint and green clothes, but this wasn't practical, so I went with my second idea. The second idea was for the model to wear masks, either one mask, or several. I eventually decided for her to wear 3 masks, and 3 dresses with them. This was to show formal, evening and fun styles that the model could wear.
Over all I think that the look of the photos reflect what I was trying to suggest. The images came out very yellow - entirely unintentional - but a tone which worked well with the images, reducing the almost creepy quality of the images - especially the skeleton ones.
I like the layout I used for the photos, with the outer photos looking inwards, almost as angels and devils, towards the 'coupling' of the skeleton and the model.
The final photos could, perhaps, have been improved by making the yellow tone more even between all the photographs. The photos generally stiff, like the model is a little uncomfortable of I have little skill for what I was doing.
Over all I think that the look of the photos reflect what I was trying to suggest. The images came out very yellow - entirely unintentional - but a tone which worked well with the images, reducing the almost creepy quality of the images - especially the skeleton ones.
I like the layout I used for the photos, with the outer photos looking inwards, almost as angels and devils, towards the 'coupling' of the skeleton and the model.
The final photos could, perhaps, have been improved by making the yellow tone more even between all the photographs. The photos generally stiff, like the model is a little uncomfortable of I have little skill for what I was doing.
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