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.