I can’t believe this year is over, it feels like it barely happened. I am really proud of what I have accomplished this year. I have explored new avenues of creativity and art that I have never considered or even attempted before.
This brief has been challenging, I have never been a painter, in the past, I would have started a painting and then I would get frustrated and would never finish. I didn’t take painting in high school so I learn’t any techniques or was confident in my abilities. I can’t tell you what came over me to select it, but I am glad I did. This brief challenged me, I wanted to do well and explore an art form I am not familiar with. I really enjoy how we had to process images that we got to choose, what an interesting way to begin a process. I wish now that I could go back and begin again because now I have a better understanding on what I was meant to do.
I really enjoyed the landscape paintings, I found it interesting to paint them in the abstract way that I did. I enjoyed figuring out what brush strokes and marks would make a convincing rock or tree. It pushed me to try all sorts of techniques and marks. One of my favourite parts was the workshops in the print lab. It was so much fun exploring and experimenting with new ways of mark making. How using a screen to make the marks and how instead of putting the ink not only on top but on the bottom of the screen created different marks.
This year has been an intense year, for both uni and personal life. I am really proud of what I have accomplished this year, I feel I have worked hard and really pushed myself. I can’t wait to see what the next two years hold.