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This brief was really enjoyable and sent me on a big personal debate with myself. I had enjoyed sculpture but painting just came to me easier. I also enjoyed being in the print labs more as I have really grown to love screen printing this year. This brief has really helped me get a better grasp on how I paint and process images I recreate. If I were to learn anything from this brief is that sometimes it’s better to walk away from a piece of work and not to touch it again. I really struggled with that while working but I have grown to really like the work I produced.

I think my most successful work is my biggest painting of the recreation of the ’before-the-1900s’ painting/print, portrait paintings and my still life paintings/prints. These works I feel capture the brief better than the rest of my work as they show more expressive marks and have more detail than the rest (shading and depth wise). I think my more unsuccessful work would be my landscapes. Though they look good I really did struggle with capturing the foreground, mid ground and back ground. Majority of my landscape paintings also lacked expressive mark making. I think overall my work got better the more I worked, I was pretty rusty as i hadn’t painted in a few months but I think overall my work looks good.

I think the most challenging thing in this brief was as I mentioned, not spending a lot of time on one painting. I tried limiting myself to half an hour so that I wouldn’t overwork the paint. I didn’t follow this strictly but when I did my work looked as little neater. I also struggled with colour and not sticking to the same colours I already mixed. I don’t like feeling wasteful with paint so mixing new colours was not an often occurrence which I think affected my work overall.

Something to improve on is exploring with colour and subject matter more. I think I restricted myself too much regarding these 2 and as I said it impacted my work overall. Another thing would be to continue to learn when a painting is done and needs to stop being worked on.

This week I finished off some last paintings just to do some last minute work build up. I had decided to paint out the tree that I had drawn in the second print labs session. I had liked the sketch for this painting but I think in trying to use different colours I had made an atrocious colour combination. I had also done another painting based off my landscape drawings, this time focusing on the clouds and the skies detail.

The first print class was about mono printing using the screens, pastels and different placement techniques. I ran into some issues with the pastels not wanting to print properly and instead they became a resist that would block out shapes. I wish I had played around with this more tactfully as none of the pastel works came out good. I initially had thought the image I used (the before 1900’s reference image) would’ve worked great but I ran into issues quick. As I tried to turn my image around (as you sometimes do in mono printing) I realised my image was too complex and most of these prints came out messy. I only got one outcome that I liked after 5-6 tries. I also tried laying down some ink using a small squeegee and this ended up looking much better and I was feeling a little better about my work.

This week I got back into the swing of things. I started to be more selective with the works I was happy with and the ones I figured could be left for the workbook. I think the images I created the weeks before and this week do a pretty good job of showing gestural marks and I definitely explored more with mediums and materials. I think I just needed to empty my brain of all pre-conceived ideas of what I was making. I am overall happy with what I painted this week, especially the canvas and fabric pieces.

This week I had a really hard time generating work I was proud of. I started the week on high note by creating some extra sketches of images I wanted to work from and I was really proud of how they turned out. These were maybe 10 minute long sketches and for that time frame I was really proud of what I made. When I started to create iterations of these sketches I lost sight of what the actual brief was, I had started to create a proper painting rather than a study or iteration. Although I spent too much time on this, I’m still happy with what I created and it gave me a bit of a learning moment to understand how I can make some effective small gestural marks.

This week when working in the print lab tutorials I learned how to use mono printing with ink and turpentine. I found this process to be really enjoyable and it has given me some great ideas on how to create some painting using ink and printing. This is a great technique to use with layering and I’d like to combine this technique with a finished painting when I get to that point. Or even paint on top of a print, or submit the print itself as a painting as the technique I used made my work look very painterly.

NATE LOWMAN

https://natelowman.net/works/2021

Nate Lowman’s work interests me for its expressive detail. i like how they build up shape and then on top of that they use bold lines to help build up the shapes and contrast. from far away it looks as if theyve some lovely line work but up close you can see that its thought through nonsense. lowman simplifies his subject matter in a precise way which is something id like to try implement in my work.

LAURA LANCASTER

https://ocula.com/artists/laura-lancaster/

Lancaster’s work has a beautiful painterly style to it and i relate a lot to this style of painting. ive grown to love and use more painterly and expressive style of painting anf lancaster work is great example yo learn from. i like that her subject matter isnt perfectly defined and that ge brush strokes build the shape. I think implementing a painterly style into my work would give a good effect to my paintings.

SANYA KANTATOVSKY

https://www.artsy.net/artwork/sanya-kantarovsky-cataract

Kantatovsky’s work is beautifully simplified the layers of thin and thick paint are very effective. I like that line work is also involved in their paintings but it’s not super distracting from the entirety of the painting. They seem to use the black line work as a focal point to draw attention to the middle but not too much that you can ignore everything else going on. I also like how over simplified everything is which kind of relieves the pressure of my paintings having to have a lot of detail and precision.

This week we worked with tone and processing images into cool, warm and neutral tones. I found this really difficult when being timed as working with a wet medium is harder than dry. I find being timed and using a pencil is fine but this was definitely more difficult. Once I wasn’t timed through I was able to process the image better and create something I liked more. I was also able to identify the images cool, warm and neutral tones better giving me a better image study to go off of when finalising a painting.

Judy Millar is actually someone who I wanted to be part of my art whakapapa because her painting style is something I admire. Her utilisation of the paint and her tools is well thought out. I love the brush marks shes able to make because they have this transparency to them but they still come across as bold. Her use of colour is also well thought out, she tends to go for brighter backgrounds and then darker brush strokes. Overall her work is visually pleasing and intriguing.

Gregory Hodge is also from my art whakapapa and his work is similar to Judy Millar’s. But I admire his work for how he makes the paint appear 3D and how he switches between expressive and refined painting. He combines these styles in his works and the contrast between them make his paintings feel like surrealism. I also like the cohesiveness that his monotone colours give his paintings.

Joan Snyder’s work to me isn’t as visually pleasing as the past two artists but that’s not to say her work isn’t as interesting. There’s a lot to take in when looking at Snyder’s work and I like how structural her painting is. This is something I relate to in my work because I love using impasto in my paintings to give them more shape. Her work is also very expressive which is something I really enjoy about her work.

John M Armleder’s work is similar to Snyder’s work, it’s structural, expressive but the colours her uses and the marks he makes are really pretty. His colours are bright and he enjoys working with metallic colours which is something I’d be interesting in using in my own work. His work ranges from simplistic to explosively busy. Both of these versions of his work are just as appealing as the other.

Jason Martin’s work immediately caught my eye from how it flows off the canvas and the structure of it is amazing. I appreciate the singular colour scheme and because the paintings are shaped the shadows and depth play a big part in the overall look. The big shapes he made on his canvases is just overall amazing and I love it.