Author: Diana

Coming into this brief I thought it would be smooth sailing, but I had more trouble than I thought I would. Because of the circumstances, the lack of resources threw me for a loop trying to find paper and different materials to create art. I found week 3 more of a struggle since I wasn’t sure how exactly I was going to execute it. This brief reminded me of why I should stay away from drawing/painting. I did find the brief to become more free spirit and to play around with colours, something I don’t do on my own. If I could change anything, it would be to spend more time painting and look at others works for inspiration.

For week 3, we were asked to combine the techniques/methods from weeks 1 and 2 together. I wasn’t too sure where to start since all I could think was to layer one artwork and paint over it.

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In the middle painting, I used a comb and created a “plaid” pattern then grabbed the blue paint bottle and spread it across using the words from week 1. I tried to create layers but the choice of colours are difficult to see the layers. I wanted to be more messy and experiment with different colour combinations, and using different layers.

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On the work on the left, I used Gemma Smith’s decrease or increase technique by removing some of the paint with a paper towel. I also drew over one of the photos from week 2 over it. I outlined the bush/trees for the painting on the right. I didn’t want to recreate the painting all over again, instead of creating the waves of the sky, I used a bottle cap to act as clouds.

Amy Sillman

Amy Sillman is an American artist who explores the many different types of practices. I was drawn to this piece more of how she uses the layers and the different techniques on them. You can see the different methods/materials she used to create this such as watercolour paint(?), a pen.

Gemma Smith

Gemma Smith is an Australian painter and sculptor who works in many layers. In most of her artwork recently, she hides a painting beneath another painting. The process of Gemma’s work is to decrease or increase; she will look at the painting and wonder if she will add more paint or remove/strip paint off, this is how she builds her layers which I found quite interesting to try.

Rita Ackermann

Rita Ackermann piqued my interest the most and was inspiring for this brief. The meaning behind Rita Ackerman’s work is her abstract paintings addressing the issues about feminism. I thought how her work was interesting since I couldn’t pin out what the painting was at first, but after researching I could see the outline of the female figure with the different shades of pink.

For this week we had to create 4 of different artwork through different drawing and painting methods of 6 different images

A photo without people

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A screen grab from a film

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A photo with people

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An image of a painting made before 1900

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A piece of printed fabric

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A piece of trash

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For the first week, we were to create work using words. I used smear, spread, drag, swirl and slide. I used random pieces of paper/cardboard from old work I had.

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My main idea for this was to show everyday life, of doing simply nothing which can be a good or bad thing. Downtime is needed for everyone so we can function better but too much downtime can cause us to use our devices as our main source of entertainment which leads to other factors.

Something I would’ve done differently was experiment with lighting and camera angles so that it wouldn’t just be of the same space every single photo, and the same actions all the time. Whilst taking these photos, I found myself getting bored of doing the same thing over and over again so I got lost for a while since I wasn’t sure which direction I wanted my work to go in. I found that a change of environment was much needed which changed things up in a good way.

I felt like I wanted to do something slightly different, so I decided to do the same thing but from sunrise. It is a gloomy day so there isn’t much sun but I worked with what I could. If I had the chance to do something different, I would’ve used another angle or a different location for the tripod.

Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge was born in April 9th 1830 in England; Muybridge works around motion and sequences for his photographic work. The sequence of the horde trotting inspired me to work with sequence/animation since it is taken about every second, and if you put all of those images together on a video editing software, it would turn into a video, a story.

When I took these photos, I didn’t realise it was on a slow shutter speed since I had to put it on a timer, however, in a good way it strayed away from my usual route. I tried to experiment on Photoshop and have them overlayed on top of each other but it didn’t work in my favour so I went with the side by side sequence in black and white; I didn’t want all of my work to be in colour so I wanted to try black and white.

For these, I’ve changed the location of the tripod although it looks the same, just slightly lower. I wanted to use the lamp as an element that captures the photos on the bottom, so I continued using that. I prefer this layout rather than the layout before since you can see the sequence a lot better, also with the other layout, people may look up and down than side to side so I needed that to change. I didn’t want to do too much movement change so I decided to stay on my bed for the majority of the time and spend endless hours on my devices and capture the true laziness side of this brief