Lockdown gave me challenges, I was limited in supply, starting over and my overall mental health, it wasn’t easy. It took a lot of effort to continue what i’ve started in Visual Arts, trying times where I was ready to restart, and do everything last minute. In the end, Im happy with what i’ve created, it’s a direction that I belive applies to the Ideas from Week 1 & 2 and is art work I never would have previously worked on or cared about, this fresh new perspective is exciting.
The ideas that i’ve developed on throughout the assesment were, ripping, cutting, rearranging, pastels, sewing, tracing, folding, highlighting, sketching, dripping, splashing, smudging, creasing, negative spaces, contrasting colours, pattern and the dissruption of pattern.
I focused on the natural pattern of cardboard, using pastels. Portraying ‘the girl with a pearl earring’ ,with simple shapes I was able to create this piece. I decided to incorperate this in my final brief due to the importance of the idea of natural pattern and what I can create with it. I would drag the pastel which would create a variation of lines, from cris cross, thick to thin, bent lines, it’s interesting due to the unique unpredictability the cardboard allows me to create/ highlight. Depending on the colour some patterns are obvious and some are slightly hidden giving clear contrast. This idea develops further in my next art work.
Frank Ocean’s Blonde heavily relies on emotion, after listening to the album I wanted to try and capture the feeling that I experienced behind Blonde. Using techniues similar to my previous art work, scrapping, contrasting colours, simple shapes and bringing out natural patterns I was able to create the art on the left.
I know I could develope this further I wanted to rely on more techniques like cutting, rearranging, patterns and disruption of the pattern. This decision made my art interesting and I loved this new twist, the seperate squares gives you a reason to pay attention to the strokes of pastels rather then the actual piece itself. I decided to rearrange it in a way where it is bottom left heavy with detail and harsh colours and becomes more light and simple as it gets closer to the top right, this decision was made due to its surroundings, knowing the composistion I was going for I wanted to make sure it wasn’t to messy next to my art pieces.
Girl with a pearl earring, I used techniques like scrapping, dripping, pouring, folding, smudging. the result I was left with, I knew I could develop it further.
Tyler the creator, after my first attempt I knew what to do, focusing more on the folding creases and completely letting myself have the creative freedom of making it messy, simple and, far from detailed.
I ripped both art pieces appart, noticing the folded creases highlighted by the pastel, I connected the individual ripped papers by the lines I created. This process was interesting, I love the carefree nature that I allowed myself to rely on. The process behind this art work is more important then the end result, knowing where I started and how I got to the end is the key to understanding this art piece. If I had more time to develop this idea I would continue to make this piece grow with more messy creative ripped up works, branching off into painting, sketch, using different types of surfaces like magazines, newspaper, plastic etc.
Conclusion:
The challenges I faced in lockdown and the new perspectives that I gained from relying on a new way of creating art, It was demanding but inspiring. I created abstract art on a bigger scale, using pastels, which dosen’t sound difficult, but i’ve never been interested in creating this type of art. I’m glad I was able to gain new ideas and develop them in a way which was un-thinkable to me at the start of this brief, process will continue to have an impact on my future art works.