Cutting and Sticking...

Experimenting with collage.

I want to find new styles that will compliment my paintings, considering the shapes, colours, message and the overall composition of the collage and how it will look as a painting.

I also look for ways in which I can compliment the collage with the material I am using in my paintings. For example, with me painting on see through plastic, I consider which areas of the collage to paint on the front or the back of the plastic.

Examples of the new collages I am experimenting with.

Trying to use a variety of methods to distort the image.

The top images are around an A4 size.

The bottom 2 images are A2 poster size.

Again I'm painting these on plastic and I am thinking of displaying them in a sculptural way... so that the audience can walk around the images and veiw from all angles.

Coco

Observations

A few studies. Some from life, some from magazines, using crayon, pencil and pen.

My favourites are the jumping figures, I tried to capture the muscles in the different positions.

Trying to make canvas bearable...

These are reproductions of some of my collages using flat, board canvas and tracing paper.

Again using layers as the basis for these drawings.

Below I ditched the canvas and used layers of tracing paper, like my first experiments.

Summer couldn't get any longer than this...

So Summer seems to have been dragging by... with friends either working or back at home so this is what I have been doing mith my time (along with trying to get some reading done ready for my disseration)

I have continued to work with drawing, (as this is an art form I feel is still not celebrated enough) working from images that I find interesting and from my collages.

The images abobe are actually all seperate drawings but I do love seeing them all as one.

 

Insects

These are some of my favourites drawings.

I wanted to try something different on these lovely brown canvas's I got from Cass Art.

 Looking back over past work, I found some old photos of insects I had taken whilst studying my foundation course and I thought they would look perfect on these.

Sucess With Insects

Final Exhibition.

Two layered tracing paper pieces and two layered ppsheet piece.

Hand made book of twenty eight collages.

Again, another amazing exhibition. Everyones work looked really good.

I was also pleased with how mine progressed.

I'm glad that I dared to use monotonal tones in the work on the wall, it contrasted with the work around me really well.

To begin with the layered paintings looked quite flat, whereas I wanted the composition to confuse the eye of the viewer in terms of viewpoint or dimensions of the pieces. I realised that to get the most out of the material, I would have to get the most of the materials and styles that I was painting in. Therefore, I began to consider how I could use these to most compliment the images and the work as a whole.

I decided to play around with different colour filters, layers and different ways in which to hang my pieces to convey this hallucinogenic outcome that I wanted. I decided that the most effective process was to separate each of the layers so that the different layers hung loosely from each other.

My collection of collages have grown and developed dramatically and I now see them as a work in their own right to be shown alongside my drawings. I therefore made an A4 book to exhibit them, being influenced heavily by an artist I had come across earlier in my research, Kerstin Bratsch b.1979, with her own untitled, gothic style book. I also added tracing paper pages to reference the types of materials used in my drawings, creating the same ghostly effects.

I love mark making in new ways and with new materials and I feel that you can definitely see this from the work that I have produced. However, I do feel I could develop the use of collage even further. I was recently contemplating, for example, ways to combine the images to create collage digitally, maybe by multi-exposure in film and digital photography, which could be yet another route in which I could take my project.

Drawing for me is something that I feel isn't celebrated enough within the art world compared to painting or sculpture and I'm glad that drawing is on the rise again. It just feels so fresh and relaxing and I want to carry on with this exploration of drawing.

There was alot of variety in the show which is why I think it was so successful.

Alot of different styles and types of work and I enjoyed all of it.

I have also included a couple of images of the first years show (top two images) that I was most impressed with.

Not one work was the same, every work reflected that student and that's what I love about the degree at Westminster.

Looking forward to see the 3rd years show.

One thing is though... Can't wait for summer!

Bring on the exhibitions, festivals and beer!