As I have previously indicated, I was very apprehensive when Lockdown was implemented. I’d left everything in my campus locker and had no idea how I’d come up with new work without them. I was distressed; but I remembered that this course had taught me to never give up. Always try and find new ways to accomplish your aims. So I did. These paintings are the result of my refusal to give up. These five were chosen because they best represent and reflect my ability to convey what Process into Image meant. How I used materials and demonstrated how they were connected to the process.
The brief ‘Process Into Image’:
This brief helped me broaden my visual library and learning to generate from impetus, the mark-making process and experimentation. This brief provided me greater leeway in terms of how I approached my mark making process. Examining and analysing the various visual components of an image was a lot of fun. It allowed me to discover new and different ways to create visually unique and exciting works.
The more I worked and created; I was able to unlearn my previous art habits of requiring things to be perfect. How I wasn’t able to produce anything unless I was explicitly referencing or duplicating something. This permitted me to be more fluid and loose with my work; I was less concerned with perfection and more concerned with whether or not my work looked intriguing despite imperfection.
This assignment also taught me how to keep my work balanced while using a range of media. Such as thick layers of paint or layering oil pastels with coloured pencils and crayons tossed in for good measure; all the whilst remaining expressive. I don’t need to put in as much effort to make my work appear excellent when I could literally be doing the opposite; creating work and making it imperfect but expressive and intriguing. Upon completing this brief, I realised the value of imperfection. It also demonstrated how much fun it is to not plan my work ahead of time. How the fun is in the unpredictability of the process.