yes i have been working..

so here is jess, theme: OUT OF CONTROL.. and control in relationships, as she's my friend! sorta thing.. i wanted to do a painting which stood out more in my exhibition.. so i did this, tihnking i was going to do two other ones as well. buuut it turns out i didnt have time so. i might do one other one as i have a photograph of mieke doing an 'out of control' face, when we get backt o school, and have the painting going on at home as well. but i think this might be enough for one project.. im not sure.. yes? no? p.s. the photograph is pretty bad as my camera broke and i used the webcam haha.. the colours are less dark and dirty actually..

alcohol & the jazz age 1920's

ok so here are some images i stole from pauline, taken at various parties. i really like the effect the camera made, a bit too pink on some parts but i can fix that. i was thinking they portray the use of alcohool in making people lose control of themselves, and the blurriness can relate to being under the influence also. i found an extract from The Great Gatsby which describes one of the parties which i think portrays the use of alcohol in the prohibition period of 1920's, where everyone was just starting to have fun. the use of colour and movement imagery goes really well with these images. i was thinking therefore for my next project to make a photoshop composition of these images, where the forms are all blurred and the colour is very prominent, and maybe stencil some of the extract from The Great Gatsby over it..

yes?

oh and it also ties in with the project which im doing now (control in relationships) as ive done a nice big painting close up of jess crazy face. these photos are also of my friends, so therefore its the control you have over your friends and their control over you.. as well as the alcohol business..

Just love this photograph.

i dont know if I'm going to do any of this i just loved how it came out, the mysterious colours and the sculpture on the bottom right just freaks me out. its like a ghost or omen or something. i just thought id share it with everyone cause i love it.

advice needed

Ok basically i was thinking of doing this collage of churches on paper, because i think it would work better than a composition on wood or soemthing.. so ive done these three.. using oil pastel and oil paint on the third one, which is actually the only one i like but oh well.. so yeah i was thinking of doing a collage of these three and then with my black and white Creffield-like churches in the background of like the inside of churches.. so its like the different mediums and stuff symmbolising the way different churches (religions) control people in different ways in different parts of the world.. kinda thing.. any advice on how i could bring it all together nicely, or push it further or something?

p.s. yes i know i left it late im sorry but i WILL finish it before school!

stage dos: experimentation

Well I researched Creffield and Monet, and experimented with combining their styles, to produce a new and wicked style of my own.. i liked Monet's use of colour, as his impressionistic style uses colour in an abstract way to represent certain lighting at different times of the day and different perspectives of the same thing.. and i liked Creffield's spontaneity and rabid strokes, which also seemed influenced by times of the day and weather. i attempted to put these two together to create my oil pastel colourful church thingy bobby.. I'm not finished developing my style because Im not completely happy with it yet.. i don't have photoshop so i have to resort to going back to pencil and paper :( its very depressing.. and i dont have a great amount of materials either.. but i wanted to do my final project on paper with chalk, charcoal and oil pastel.. with a composition of colourful (outside) churches, and then deep and lugubrious (haha) inside churches with chalk and charcoal, because the church CONTROLS people both on the outside (visually) and on the inside (spiritually).. so yeah..

copying monet's painting of rouen.. bit of a failure, but i like the oil pastels..: this was me having fun in england, with a style i just started to use when continous line drawing people on the street.. i thought it might work for churches but i decided it didnt..:

copycat of Creffield's inside of a cathedral, i like it especially because it fits so well with my photographs of the church in Vienna, (cheers Mr M):

using Creffield's style with my own photos.. my sexy new style.. im quite liking it..

just seeing how it looks with water-soluble graphite.. nothing special.. :

inside of churches, using Creffield's style (one on white paper, one on black sugar paper):
my sexy new style even bigger... not sure if it needs another colour? any suggestions?

churchey

whilst travelling around england visiting universities i thought I'd take photographs of the churches i saw across the country. so whenever i saw a church or a church-like interesting building i leaned out of whatever vehicle i was in at the time, and i came up with some interesting angles. I've altered some on the computer, because i think some need more colour, whereas some have a mystical effect. this is still at the research stage but i like how these photographs turned out, and I'm thinking of different styles and media's to use to paint them, because i can only really do a painting at the moment. i have canvas and wood, which would you think would be best? and any ideas for styles?

church control

Year 13 Theme

ok so i was thinking about politics, and now ive come to prefer control.
i was thinking different ways of control, or even different ways of influence as many of the minor things that control you also influence you. when talking with mr m we were thinking art with a conscience, art which portrays a social message, art which attempts to influence or change.
i am trying to narrow it down a little, and i find it hard to get ideas for experiementation, ideas anyone?

So i did a painting..

This is a painting i did today which is going to be one of a series of paintings as i said before, which came out of the photoshop designs, but is not copied exactly as i wanted to portray movement in the way the paint was applied instead of in the images. i therefore used oil paint so it shows the brush marks clearly and went off on a bit of a tangent :)

Outline for Projects

Ok so yesterday i was in rome and i shot a few videos to portray 'movement' as that's my new word.. so im going to edit those and make a video as part of my project. I'm then going to put together a few of these photoshop ideas and make a couple of small paintings out of them. Then i think i will make another medium sized painting with the Brian Kenny idea. I'm not sure how far this is going to go and weather this will take up just one project or maybe two, and my ideas might change direction halfway through this project but this is where i am now and i shall get started on the paintings now.

just some stuff i did on photoshop

This is by Brian Kenny
He works over photographs with illustrations
I like the hectic intricacy of it.
It makes it interesting and has a lot of depth
















This is one of mine where i have used the idea of movement from my pen drawings and used Brian Kenny's style to create a composition which is full and reflects movement both in the images and the style. I did some of it on photoshop and then printed it out and went over it with pen.

This is a drawing of me and laura :)
seeing as we're pulling funny faces this reminds me of Jose Martinez Roca's close up portraits paintings.



I then experimented with this drawing to adopt the style of Vhils.. with this bright colours and dripping paint.

I also experimented with Antony Micallef's style of portraits. with the strong brush strokes and great contrast. It is hard to make out the lines, but it gives it a powerful atmosphere.

Here are some different ways of depicting portraits...

These first two are by a street artist - 'Vhils'
The colours in the second and the use of close up, shadows, and dripping paint give the painting a realistic but expressive and powerful effect.




































These two are by another street artist named Jose Martinez Roca. he also does close ups of civilians pulling funny faces. He does many from Liberia and Sierra Leone, and also some from Israeli and Palestinian civilians. This gives a comic and approachable effect to people whom are usually depicted devastated and starving. I like this irony and although it is not as expressive in the painting or media as Vhils' portraits, the facial expressions make up for this.

And finally this is Antony Micallef's portrait. his Baconesque brush strokes and powerful monochromatic shadows and highlights give the prtrait an eerie and dominated tone. I particularly like the expression Micallef creates with the medium instead of the actual expression on the face, contrariwise to Roca's portraits.

I could experiment with merging these styles of painting portraits together, and come up with an original way of depicting someone's thoughts/emotions through this style of painting.

A page in my book

I'm looking at movement and this is one experimentation of people in mid-movement

This could be an interesting composition, but i may develop it further by looking at particular movements and what emotions/thoughts are revealed by this, what is apparent in ones movements/actions

Or i could possible look closer into movement made at a particular time, i.e. when socialising you laugh, talk, hand movements, drink, smoke etc.

Or i could possibly look at the way someones movement can be portrayed by the media i depict them in (paint/pastel...) rather than their actual movements, and weather something about the person can be revealed solely by the media, like their emotions/thoughts/character.