all-blogs-go-to-heaven: 2012

subject matter

For this project we begun by looking at Gerhard Richters Atlas work. We then ried to find things that interested us and identify subject matter from the research we had done.

I begun by looking at photography and the manipulation of faces this lead me to taking my own photos and creating some collage pictures of my friends and then tried to take aspects of the photos into some painting.

After looking at the photos after there completion i decided what i really like about the images was the grids and how they shaped together. I then starter looking at artists like Sean Scully and Mark Rothko looking at how they might approach this subject matter. I then began to take some of the grids from the photos and started painting using colours taken from the city around me because i think the space that i inhabit always efects my work. Here is some of the paintings.

After doing these experimental paintings i fekt as though mysubject matter need to be investigated more so i went out to the city with my camera to see could i push the project on and i got some decent resultss i think.

The photographs once again became a big part of my project and for the last week i just tried to make some paintings with masking tape that were a bit crisper. Alot inspired by Gareth Jenkins and Ronnie Hughs.

materiality

Im happy to say i got painting. For our first project we were to in vestigate materiallity. I first started out by taking photographs of interesting surfaces and then tried to pick out materials that i saw in them surfaces.

After looking at my photographs i really liked how the leather in my jacket photographed. i then sought out materials that i sat in the photos like PVA glue, gloss paint, charcoal, enamel spray etc. and surfaces like tin foil, cling film, acetate. I began to make swatches experimenting with these to see what results i could get.

After had done created dome smaller pieces i began to photograph them and i actually preferred the photos to the the actual physical pieces.

Nearing the last week of my project it was pointed out to me that my work was quite small and i thought it would be quite interesting to go larger with my work. The results that came out were very interesting.