Moving Spaces

Okay. I'm moving to a new blog, at least temporarily. I called up Falmouth this afternoon about the possibility of switching courses to Fine Art. It didn't go amazingly well. It sounds like I'm going to have to work the craft course for a while and even then it might not be doable. If I get the opportunity to present my work to the Fine Art department if any spaces become available I need to demonstrate that the fine art course is undoubtedly more suitable for me than the craft one. That means stripping away all the some of the excess bullshit and building a body of strong, clear, coherent pieces over the next 8 weeks. Don't overwork anything too much and make sure that I understand what it is that I'm trying to explore with each piece and try to put across only that.

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I'm not sure if this works... :S

I'm not sure if the two ways of painting gel... Or maybe they would if I'd used the same colours... Or maybe I've just don't like it because I've been staring at it all day. There's my first big painting done either way

Big Isometric Field Painting

My first "big" painting in 6 years. It's not that big really... It's just that everything I do is tiny. I've decided to call these "Isometric field paintings" (the square ones are "grid field paintings")

Loose Isometric Layered Painting

It's a bit rough round the edges but it's only a tiny one. I think it's the best one I've done so far. I've stumbled on a way of making it look like refracted light is coming through the grids although I could do with practising it on a larger scale. Acrylic on canvas

A wee test I did in my sketchbook just to see how the outlining might work. Emulsion and water soluble crayons on paper.

Trainers and Painting

Another experiment. I tried to be more loose and instinctive with this. I also tried to work more with the qualities of the paint rather than trying to draw with it and played around with mixing a range of tertiary colours rather than just sticking with secondary and primaries. I think I overworked it although it does have potential.

The vertical lines took a while!.

I found working to a 3d form was useful for getting started. I imagined I was looking at a pixelated image of a gem with various different coloured lights on it to start and then the rest was on the fly improv.

I got some cheap white trainers and had a go at giving then a paint with colours I had left over from my symbols painting too!

Just playing around in photoshop. I prefer this to my actual piece.

I'm calling this finished now. I'm not sure that it works. It's trying to do too much at once. I was interested in how groups of lots of different colour shapes would read and whether you could sort of have various shapes existing through each other using this approach and they did, kinda. And then I added seperate shapes using flat colour underneath the symbols to see whether they would read at the same time as the top ones and they do kinda. They also affect the above shapes and it all kind of blends in a strange way. I dunno. I'll have to look at it in a few days with fresh eyes...

This is the same painting but I photoshopped the horrible "listerine" blue into a less harsh colour. I think it ;ppls better this way. I might take out both light blues completely at some point. That "&" sign needs sorting out pretty badly too!

bit further

working in underneath pattern and changing the vividicity of some of the greys.

All symbols on and ready to go

Tiiiired... There's a lot left to do to this I think. Gonna experiment with adding a second colour to each square and see what happens.

Symbols painting continued

Okay... About 13 hours in, I think. The flash ruined the last pic but my camera doesn't take very decent pictures unless there's tons and tons of light.

More painting experimentation

I really like this so far. It's gonna take ages to finish. If it turns out well I'm going to try and tackle a much bigger more complex one.

Wee grid relief painting

More or less finished this little tester painting. 9 or 10 hours. It could do with a lot of touching up but I've got what I need from it. I'm pretty happy with it.

And development stages

A bit of painting

I figured I'd get stuck in on some small canvases and not really think too much about it. Doodling with paint and glue and random objects and stuff. The square one has a random chunk of dried acrylic paint that I remember Greg dumped on my table. Gonna carry on with these tomorrow.

Google Sketch Up

No images for today. I had a run through the basic tutorials in google sketch up. I was going to post an image of my lame chairs but they just look like the ones in the tutorial

Experimenting for painting: Continued from yesterday

Just having a break after more drawing. This is where I'm at with this so far. I'm just coasting. I've been trying to avoid effects or copy pasting but ended up copy pasting the pink bits over quite a large area which was a clear sign that I needed a break, I think.

Experimenting for painting.

A bit of drawing in Photoshop. Playing around with colour and shape to see if I come up with anything interesting to paint on my canvas.

In reverse order (latest version first)

   

Photoshop portrait continued

There's loads wrong with this proportionally and tonally but I'm gonna leave it at that. It's nicely stylized and and maintains a degree of more instinctive creative mark making which I wanted to keep. If I had kept going at it it could have ended up being too clean. I'm quite pleased with it. :)

Photoshop portrait in progress

Drawing of my friend, Katherine, in progress. I was gonna try and finish it tonight but Photoshop crashed after I had done quite a lot so I'm giving it a rest till tomorrow. Used a basic brush for the rough under drawing and an oil pastel brush for the later colours just to prevent it going too clean and smooth. Her eyes look kinda scary at the moment! I'm going for proper eye detail once the basic shading is done.