Author: Leah

The pieces below are works from other weeks, this is due to showing my progress thtoughout the following brief.

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This piece is a bit of cardboard that I painted black and flicked two types of paint at it. This was the piece that started the flicking and masking type. I like to flick paint because I dont have control over where it goes and the motion of how i flick the brush, will show how much I flick at the artwork.

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This artwork was connected to the black piece but I decided to cut it off. The white, blue and black make this piece look like a snowy landscape. I used charcoal to get the little lines and for the big line in the middle, I removed the tape and it ripped the cardboard with it.

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This is a smaller art piece and as you can see I painted it white and then flicked black paint. This piece is rather interesting to me due to how a simple these two colours work together.

The new art pieces

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For these art pieces I painted on bottles and cans, it was hard to work with but I managed to get something that I really liked. I flicked paint on all three this was because all of the other ones without paint didnt work with the masking tape. The masking tape took some of the paint with it. I choose these piece to be in my final blog because they really show improvemnt in my work.

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So for these two images I used a canvas and masking tape to line out what I wanted to keep. The black paint makes this image look more modern and clean. When using the masking tape for the colourful one it was harder to do due to it being paper, I tired to get the squares even but it was rather hard but it looks cool.

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The cans were harder to paint on than bottles, the live can you can still see the writing underneath the paint. For the monster can which is the one on the right looks better due to me dapping the paint on rather then just doing the normal brush motion. I flicked paint and painted lines, I did this because I wanted to see what would look nicer.

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These ones are my favourite paintings so far, The one i enjoy the most is the black bottle. the black one has these colours that match so well together, For two of these bottles I used the same flicking motion. For the middle one it has multiple different colours even though you can not see in the image. For the first image I dapped paint on to try and cover up all of the green, this one isnt finished but it’ll show it in my final blog.

Today I used many different colours and many techniques. When working I used brown paper due to it being bigger and more wrinkled, this will give more depth in my work.

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The green is what i started with and followed through to drawing onto it, im not very good at drawing but i gave it ago and to me it doesnt look to bad. When painting the blue, I used masking tape once again and painted many different colours so it showed through.

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I choose to do little works to see what would happen and I really like them. The little flicks of paint give these two works just something more to see. Black and white are the shades that l love to use in my works.

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These paintings are done by moving paint around or using charcoal the painting red and white to get a grey colour within. The moving image has greens, blues and reds all just moved around making this sunset. For the charcoal image I scatted water at the top so it could trickle down the work to make it look road like.

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For these I folded down the paper to show little images made from the fold. I put yellows, reds, blues and greens for both of these works. The one on the right looks like a animal andto me I found the intersting that a single fold makes so much art.

Today I made three art works on cardboard and brown pieces of paper. I used masking tape to show the orange through the black, making the art piece more interesting. The blue one isnt finished the way I wanted it to look but its kinda plain in a good way. The square’s have have many different colours showing that their the same but not at the same time. When you look at the squares you see that some are connected and some are not, this is because I wanted it to some what look 3D.

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Charline von Heyl (b. 1960, Germany)

She is a painter whose training envelops drawing, printmaking and collection. Von Heyl’s work takes motivation from an immense and astonishing cluster of sources – including writing, mainstream society, power and individual history.

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Since the early 1990s, von Heyl has wrestled with abstraction in her work, explaining, “I want to get abstraction to a point where it screams that it is something: a representation and a thing.” While each print in this series is unique, certain motifs reappear in multiple works, exploiting the potential for replication and permutation inherent in the print process.

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Charline von Heyl’s career has experienced some dramatic ups and downs over the past year, therefore when she did a solo show of her latest paintings they made a big splash when it opened the New York art season last September. The effusive critical notices attracted crowds to Petzel gallery in Chelsea.

First images for today

Today I did some abstract art, I started with cardboard and painted it black. On the other side of the cardboard I painted that side white but i’ll talk about this black piece first. The black back drop is the night and the whiteand yellow are teeny stars. When I was doing this piece i would do little bits at a time and change it and or the final result i ripped the bottom off to show the ruffled lines.

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This is the white piece, the middle had taped all along the middle so I used blue and black and even charcoal. The ink on the carboard showed through the white so I went with it. The blue actually made this image flow, the way the black and blue fall onto each other olmost makes the image look like a waterfall.

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This piece got a little crazy, I feel like it went to far with some of the colours but the idea was there. I put tape a everywhere to get the bumpy effect and to hold back the piece of cardboard. I ripped some of the pieces of tape to get blank spots, I went along with the weird colours and it kinda looks okay.

The Dap and Curve Section

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When I made this piece, I dapped paper over it to get the effect of a soft pattern, before i started I crinkled the carboard to get lines throughout my work. Making this was interesting because I just painted the whole piece green and some how black showed and that added to the piece.

For this one I used some left over cardboard to used as a squeegee and placed brown, red, blue and yellow along the piece and pushed the cardboard though it. I kept pushing the cardboard around till I liked what it looked liked. For this last piece below I used the paint that come of the fire looking image. I used the squeegee as an art piece because I dont like rubbish.

Born February 9, 1932; Dresden, Germany – Nationality: German

Art movements: New European Painting, Abstract Art – Painting school Capitalist realism

One of the most popular specialists to rise out of post-war Germany, Gerhard Richter is known for his productive, fluctuated, and broadly compelling composition practice.

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But during this time, the craftsman initially started creating obscured photograph compositions he works investigate the clashing idea of a picture’s proper make up and the substance it contains. Richter acquainted deliberation with his collection in the next many years, dissecting painterly articulation through a strategy of squeegeeing paint over the material.

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When Gerhard was given a camera from his mother, he learned how to develop photographs and he also began reading avidly, making drawings, although he had no intention of becoming an artist.

Raised in suburban Surrey, England, Brown studied under painter Maggi Hambling before attending art college. Her graduation from the Slade School of Fine Art in the early 1990s

Cecily Brown makes paintings that give the appearance of being in continual flux, alive with the erotic energy of her expressive application and vivid color, shifting restlessly between abstract and figurative modes.

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Cecily Brown works at the intersection point of figuration and pondering: She fills her incredible materials with ideas of body parts and virtuosic, gestural brushstrokes that settle essentially obviously into craftsmanship history–pushed scenes. Gritty shaded draws on an extent of compositional standards including the ordinary planes of Neoclassicism, the power of Abstract Expressionists, for instance, Willem de Kooning, and the repulsive, broke kinds of Francis Bacon. Her creations become genuine, clear summonings of air and genuine experience.

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Brown is additionally one of those uncommon female specialists who paint a ton of female nudes, however in an extremely effortless and mysterious way. Truth be told a ton of her work borders in on suggestion, however it is likewise extremely tasteful and exquisite which summarizes Brown’s own particular style.

Elizabeth Peton is a leading Contemporary Figurative painter, best known for her portraits of celebrities and musicians. Peyton grew up in Danbury, CT and attended the School of Visual Arts in New York. sister and Peyton recalls the reassurance that this music gave her. “Hearing those records, I felt like I wasn’t such a freak, that there was a bigger world than Connecticut, where I was going crazy.”

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Elizabeth Peyton’s intimate, modestly scaled portraits of friends, celebrities, and historical figures helped usher in a return to figuration in the 1990s. Her work shows the Interested of pop cultural and how that can be mediated and distorted. Peyton uses bold, expressionistic brushwork and surprising swatches of saturated colors as she allows viewers to consider the figure anew.

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Whitney Bedford is an American contemporary painter, her own mark is making to bring the original source material of her paintings into the realm of the imaginary. She Layes with both ink and oil paint for romantic scenes of destruction, calm at sea, and migrating birds are manipulated to the point of abstraction, showing only vestiges of her starting point.

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Whitney bedford has a compositional turbulence and a distinctly ominous air, their listing ships, heavy seas, detached icebergs, temperamental landscapes and low horizons stirring up notions of the sublime.

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Whitney Bedford’s has a lot of emotional throughout her artwork, She feels that a constant sense of travel, a love of art history, a new rooted amazement at flora and fauna, and a fulcrum of a visible horizon line have most directed her work.