Second Piece and Last Piece

The two last pieces that I am going to create are connected to one artist which is Agnes Cecile. I have already gone through the reason why her artwork inspired me and how he uses colours to express the person's emotion. If you look at my blog post (artist research) you will be able to see how I struggled with water colour as it was hard for me to control, so I decided to look at one of her artworks and when browsing through all her works I finally found something that was really eye catching which is called drip painting. I really thought this would be good for my last two pieces as it expresses lost memories because even though the piece looks abstract you are able to see a face or what the artist is drawing. This feels like you are having a memory but you do not seem to remember. The medium that she uses is varnish, acrylic and black paint mixed together to be able to make the black paint drip. Instead of me getting all these mediums I bought a paint called gloss "no drip," even though it said no dripping it still dripped so I decided to do some experiments with this medium.


When experimenting I used a crafting knife to do the dripping because I tried to use a brush last time and the paint was unable to drip  as all the paint was being held in the brush. I tried to spell my name "Divine" on the paper it was hard at first but when I did it again I got the hang of it. I tried to draw my name out again and it was clear that I was writing my name, the trick of it is that you should put your hand (which is holding the craft knife) 7 cm away from the paper, it makes your dripping look messier and expressive as it is hard to control.
After doing my experiments I wanted to go for a break so I left one of my experiments straight up unto the wall and when I came back it had a nice effect. The paint was driping down from the paper, I was thinking of using this mistake for one of my last pieces as this technique can express emotions which goes well with my theme.

 

For my second piece I had a friend pose for me normally with a smile. I asked "why are you smiling." she said "because there is a package waiting for her at home." So I took a picture of her face and started looking from the photograph (as the Artist did) and started dripping on the paper. When doing this I looked at the artist's wok as well to give me some tips on what to do in my work. I was able to see that she added more black paint or dripping on the parts that makes the person look like a person. For example; the lips, eyes, pupils and the nose but mostly the lips and the eyes. It was hard to do it as I was having some cramps from bending down because if I have to drip the paper has to be on the floor so I had to take some breaks.When the Artist does her work she also uses charcoal at the end of her dripping to put on some little shading on the eyelids. I did the same but instead of using charcoal I used acrylic as we had to make sure we use acrylic or oil paint in one of our works. I thought this went well as I was able to show that it was a portrait, I mainly like the way I was able to be expressive to give it more dripping. What I thought went bad is the lips it made her look like a 'monster' in my point of view.








For my last piece I told my sister to pretend that she is having a headache so she screamed. The reason she screamed is because she was showing that she is in pain which then goes to my theme emotions. I took a picture of her pretending to be in pain and this time did my dripping on a canvas that was not plain, I thought this would go well with my dripping because even though she feels pain she is also crying out for peace. The background on the canvas is in the colour blue and is related to nature which symbiosis peace. I did the dripping and made sure my arms was 7 cm away from the canvas. Now I felt more prepared because I knew how to handle to craft knife and the paint. When doing the dripping I used different techniques to hep me drip which was cross hatching, I used it on the hat to show the shading. For the fluffs on her coat I went very expressive because I remembered that I am not trying to be detailed in my work as it is lost memories. After finishing my last piece I made my work stand up close to the wall so that the paint will dripping of the canvas. Using one of my mistakes this will bring out the emotion in this piece because it shows tiers. What I should have done differently is change the background and make my own instead of using a background, but other than that I really  liked it. I like the way I was able to show her emotions by using the dripping effect and using hatches to make the painting eye catching for the viewers. I really thought the three pieces went well because instead of doing a normal portrait I was able to do a portrait but with different techniques.

First peice

We have been given a task to make our own three art pieces that is related to the artists that I founded thought-provoking. Out of my three artists that I found interesting I decided Nikos Gyftakis would be an interesting piece to do because instead of painting a simple portrait he uses oil pastels to create a nice effect on the portrait, which makes it more appealing to the viewers to look at his works. The medium he uses are oil pastels on canvas, we were also given a task that oil and acrylic paint has to be used in our three pieces so I decided to use oil paint. I decided to use this medium because the artist used oil to be able to make the effect successful in his work, what I mean by that is if you look at his paintings he makes sure that the colour he is using is nicely intermingled in with the other colours to create a nice undulating and curled lines. The portrait I am looking at has a man who I think looks confused as his faced is being touched by someone’s hand while his face is getting squeezed. When I get confused I always tend to squeeze my face, this goes well with my theme as what I am talking about relates to emotions.

I took the picture for my art piece in the kitchen because she was looking for her two pound that she lost. She felt sad while looking for it in every corner of the kitchen, so I decided to take a picture of her as it was hard for me to get her to pose while she was feeling unhappy. I asked her to put her hand over her face so that the portrait will look more stimulating than just a face painted. I then took a canvas and started drawing the outline of the picture that I took and drew it on top of the canvas, while doing this I made sure I drew gently on top of the canvas as it felt very thin and delicate when touching it. After that I experimented a bit by drawing and tried to make the oil paint look like an undulating line which I though worked. When I finished with that I tried to paint the whole finger with white oil paint and painted on top of the white paint but instead it made it look lighter. After looking at all the experiments I did I then knew how to use the oil paint, I needed to paint first and then use a white oil paint with a very small paint brush and go over some of the undulating or curved line I painted which created another tone and made it clear for you to see the curved lines.

 

 After doing my experiments I went straight on doing my piece, when doing it I founded it hard to mix the colours to get my sisters right skin colour, so when I went home I retook the picture and made her stand in another place where the light was not too bright, I was then able to mix the right skin tone of colour. When doing the painting I thought it would not be enough because the canvas was making the paint dry, I then just realized that I was being dumb that I should have added more oil in the paint that I just mixed and it made my painting easier. When I finished doing the face and the hands it looked abstract since you were not able to see the face only curved lines so I decided to add darker colours to bring make the parts that looks like a portrait more vibrant such as; the fingers, lips, mostly the eyes and the face.

 

 When I finally finished I thought it went successful because I was able to do the same techniques he used in his painting. I also thought it went well as I was able to make the person see what they can see in the portrait that I painted which was depressed or unhappy. What I think I should have done differently is paint on top of the blue that is close to her arms because it does not really go well or blends well with the other colours. The colour of tones that I used closed to her fingers seem to be too dark I should have changed the dark colours and tried to mix it with the other colours because the dark tone for me looks random. Other than that I think this work went well as it was my first time of using oil paint and canvas.

 

Photography test

These are the photos that I took for my photography. I was looking at different ways  or angles that I can take a picture to make it look interesting. The picture that I took that is showing four bins I used the technique framing. The picture below the bin on the left is called symmetry because I focused on the yellow bars which is built like a symmetry. After using different techniques I started getting used to taking pictures and was able to control the focus and the zooming in and out on the camera.

My Experience with the camera at first was hard for me to control mostly when I had to hold the camera straight so the picture that take does not look slanted. If you look at the bottom next to the word "Art Photography" you can see that my camera is not straight so i looks like the pole is bending. For me to get used to the camera I made sure I took enough of pictures and corrected myself picture by picture.  

PHOTOSHOP

After taking the pictures I started using Photoshop. I was trying to experiment with different techniques to make a picture look interesting. As you can see I was trying to make the picture how what is behind the wall. I used a rubber and a blur tool at 40% so that I can make the wall blend in with the other wall. I also learnt how to change the color of the background, this is was useful because it makes the picture have a different shade or tone. I changed the background for the this picture, I made the picture look brighter which made it look like a bright day instead of a dark day (when I took this picture the skies were grey).

What I would have done differently is I could have chosen another picture instead so it can show how clearly what I blended in because now it looks like a picture that I glued to a paper in.

This is my outcome. The first time I used Photoshop it was very challenging because I did not know what type of tools there were, how to use it and where it was. With this experience that I had I was able to see how this could help me with my art  work. I will b able to do Anges Ceceile's work by taking a picture of a person and then adding different effects on Photoshop (for example ink) and layering them which would create a nice effect with all the splashes she does with the watercolour.

Here I was trying to make a composition by removing the person in the corner of the pictrure. I used the magic wand tool which selects the shape in the picture, after that I pres the delete key which removes the selected image from the picture. I was then able to put an image at the back of the image. This then created my composition.

Artist research 2

Carne Griffiths   

                I found an interesting material that I wanted to use instead of water colour which is oil pastels. I really like this material as it gives it a smooth texture and it blends in with different colours nicely.  I am looking at another artist  and she also uses paint for her work but instead I am using something different for her type of work. As you can see at the left I tried to do the things I wanted to do with the watercolours and it worked. I thought this was more easier than paint because I was able to control the material. I really like this Artist because of the way she presents her own emotions by the medium she uses and I want to be able to do that too.

CLICK HERE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gez8b2fbKc

After seeing his work I really liked the way he does not mix the colours while adding tea to his work. I also understood that he looked at a picture which was full of nature, he then used this image and added it on onto the face he sketched.

The contrast between the two artists that I researched is that Agnes Ceceile after drawing her portrait she adds colours at the side of the face which is abstract but, Carne Griffiths after drawing his portrait he starts sketching what he sees on a picture onto the face. I really like Crane's idea of his work because I can add things on my portrait that does not relate to nature.
I started looking on how the artists create the effects on his piece. For starters I drew my friends face as the artist did in the video and I will then start adding the things that Carne did to make her work look interesting.

If you looked at the YouTube video (link) you can see that he started it of by drawing the face with a pencil and then he gradually added ink. The type of ink that he uses is not just ink that you use for paint he uses ink such as pen which gives a nice thin line when drawing, the colours that he uses makes his work more vibrant. When I started experimenting instead of using a pencil I used a black marker because I was thinking of making the face more visible, I also added a little red on my work. When doing this experiment I did exactly what the Ceceile did which was looking at the picture and drawing the figure or pattern in or out of the face.

I think my experiment worked well as I was able to do the Artist style but doing it a little different by using a marker. I really like the way I drew the lines because it gives a sense of  an emotion as the lines could represent tears. What I would do differently is to use more medium than just two, Ceceile used more than three different techniques to make her piece look interesting.

This is what I did when I started getting used to oil pastel, as you can see it was nice and easy for me to control the way I wanted the colours to be. I used something sharp to scrape some of the oil pastels away as you can see on the image it created a nice thin line which blends in with the other colours. After this experiment I noticed that I am more comfortable with using dry equipment. What I thought really went well in this work is the way I was able to blend colours together, if you look at my other post I did with watercolour you could see that I was not able to blend the colours easily. If I am going further with oil pastels I need to be able to know how to get the right skin tone.

 I was trying out oil pastels on black paper which I thought went well because it made the image look more eye catching mostly with bright colours on the paper. I then used some dusts from a white chalk to create an interesting image. What I should do next is think on how I could use colours to create an emotion for the character.

Artist research

Agnes Cecile

I started experimenting with watercolours as the artist also used watercolours. I tried to look at one of the artist’s work up and looked at the abstract she did with watercolours. I used the same colours she used and as you can see, I tried it out, I thought this was very challenging because I was struggling to get the watercolours the way I wanted it and had no control over it. If you compare her watercolour to mine you could see the big difference. When looking at it I realized that my watercolour experiment looks dry and hers has a more watery effect. I then realized that I should add more water into the paint next time. When using the watercolours, I did not really think it was the right medium for me. After failing the aspect of using watercolours I tried to do the face this time with watercolours. 

 

 

I used my sisters face and drew it with a pencil before using watercolours. Doing the face with this medium went well because I was not struggling like I did with the others. The work that I did looked more like Carne Griffith's work because of the lines that I gave on the face, so for my next experiment I will be looking at Carne Griffith's works. I think I should do next is to use a different material, something that is not paint or liquid so I will be able to control the medium.

I started looking at her work and how she was able to mix up her watercolour.

CLICK HERE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cUv4csQw1o

Cellotape, laser print, Biro and hairspray

Please read the writting on the images.

 

  

 

As you can see I used oil pastels and cut out a circled shape to represent the wheels from my old Jeep. I picked the colour; black, yellow, brown and grey because for me these colours brings out the oldness of the car that I have. After getting all the colours I made sure I filled all the area with the colours that I had, as you can see at the bottom of the page (in the image). I then put the circled paper on top of another paper making sure that the coloured area was facing the other paper. Then I drew on the back of the coloured paper making sure that I put enough pressure on the circled paper, when moving the circled paper, it made a nice rough texture on the paper as you can see on the image. I really thought it looked very nice because of the effect it had. when I tried it the second time it created a faded wheel.

 

Artists I looked at for MyTheme

Sandra Flood


16.00" h x 12.00" w
He used oil painting on linen.


I like his artwork because it shows the persons emotions or feelings. She looks sad, as if she is about to cry. This is a large work which expresses the paintings or the artists feelings.











Louise  Price

Painting, Pastels, Animals

11.00" h x 14.00"w

Photo: Saatchi Online Artist: Nikos Gyftakis; oil pastel 2005 Painting "Self portrait"
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Ainhoa Art

Detail of 'The Shock of Colour' 
Oil Pastels 
2007 

Oil Pastels | Eric D. Greene









Roger Derrick

Patrick Palmer

Portrait in Sienna, original oil on canvas, 50 cm x 40 cm, 2012

I like the way they use oil painting as it make it look like a real person, so I researched some artists that did oil painting.

Yunior Hurtado 

Oil painting

Hongtao- art

Oil painting art-portrait of boy on linen 16*24 inch