Fine Art Foundation Degree

 My focus during this project has been predominantly on showing life & death contrasts trough artwork. I have shown this through drawing & painting skulls & living animals (the cat skull, the human skull, & the hare, the statues). The process of the work & choice of media can change the meaning & the emotion presented in the piece. This is something I studied throughout my project whilst experimenting with different media’s. For example, the use of charcoal when drawing the flower paper & wire sculpture I created gave the impression of the flower dying. I also used harsh lines which shows the flower petals hardening which is a part of the process of them dying. Another example is the use of biro in my first statue drawing, as biro is an easily accessible media that is normally used for writing or loose doodles, whereas I used it to draw a detailed & smooth statue which shows we can make something aesthetically pleasing using a basic medium. Another c...

After creating pieces that link to life & death, I wanted to create some pieces containing statues. Statues hold a firm link to life & death as they are sculptures of people (often those with power or a had an impact on history) who once lived so that people in future generations can continue to share the history of the person. I find this interesting as many statues seem to have quite soft facial features, although we know people don’t necessarily look like that. Meaning in these art forms, we replicate the people in a less detailed way, but they still hold the beauty, power & emotion of the person. This links to the paper & wire sculptures I created, as they both are a deduction of a real life form into artwork, capturing the essence of the living thing in a less precise way.  Earlier in my project I produced a drawing of a grave yard statue covered in leaves, as our topic is  This was a drawing of a face I did, whereby I attempted to use geometric shapes ...

This is a drawing I created of a cat skull, using fine liner & black acrylic paint. To do:  -talk about skull thingy beforehand - artist link - evaluate drawing - development  - big version, include colour choice  - choice of paint, development / process  - artist link again -evaluate 

Today we were learning how to make phonograms which are images created without using a camera. To do this, we put objects onto photographic paper, which is a light-sensitive material, and then exposed it to light for a short period of time. We then place the paper into a developer liquid which makes the paper to darken where the light has hit it, causing the objects to show up white. They’re then put in water, & then a fixer which removes the green excess chemicals & makes the image last longer. These photograms create a black & white image of whatever is on the paper, which looks slightly similar to an X-ray image. I did two experimental photograms, using chains, a plastic skull, a light bulb, a lighter, a necklace, nails & pegs, & a film photo. I did this to see the different outcomes produced when using a mixture of opaque, transparent, & translucent objects. Some objects need a shorter time period exposed to light than others. To work out how long objects wo...

 

 

Finished Drawing: Original Sketch: I created a fine liner drawing of a hare by merging reference pictures together that I found on Pinterest.  In my original sketch, I drew the skull of the hare just above the head, joining the skull & the hare together with gestural lines with the aim to connect them like string or torn skin. This idea I found was weak, as the skull took away from the hare. The hare itself was stronger on its own as it showed motion & looks alert. When drawing the hare, I used a mixture of crosshatching & directional line to build up tones, shadows & texture. This was much less time consuming than focusing on each individual hair & still created an image that looks like a hare, without the need to be realistic or detailed. I took a less neat approach to continue the appearance of there being movement & liveliness. I feel this drawing represents both these ideas well through the media & technique, however the drawing by itself is too pla...