Title: "Colourful Expressions"
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Planning
I knew I wanted to go in a more abstract way for this painting. Painting is not my strong suit, but I wanted different medium for my project so I could explore and expand my skills as an artist. My first sketch that I did was having painted lines across the whole canvas, start from one end of the cnavas. The second sketch was to having splattered dots on it only, and the last one (also the one I chose to do) was having smudged and splattered paint all over the canvas.
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Process
The first thing I did after I decided what I wanted to paint, was to gather wood pieces as well as a piece of canvas to build my canvas. The tools I used to build it were, scissors and a staple gun. My friend helped me pulling my canvas tight over the wood frame, pulling tight on every side while I was stapling it. The second part was to put a white layer coat on the canvas, that worked as my base for all my other colours that I painted afterwards. My next step was to paint another layer of paint but this time using black paint. As soon as that black layer dried, I started to place my colours, by placing them as if I was painting different shapes of lines all around the canvas. I didn't use a paintbrush throughout my work, only for some parts of my process. It was better for me to paint without a brush, because I then achieved the look I was trying to achieve, which was a splattered painting look. I did that just by opening the tube of paint then squeezing it out of the tube and moving it all around my canvas (I'll explain later in my experimentation section down below why I chose that method). Then using a paint brush I spread the paint on the canvas particularly some of the bigger chunks of paint, that I felt were too big.
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Experimentations
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The first challenge was to decide what would be the best utensil for me to use in order to achieve the drip paint look. My first idea was to take a paint brush dip it in paint and start hitting the paintbrush against my palm but that gave me spots rather then the lines that I was looking for. I next tried to take a thin paint brush dip that in paint and start painting long lines with it. However, that also didn't work out because the lines were not very visible and I would have to make more layers for the lines in order for them to be fully eye catching. My last attempt was to take a straw, pore some paint into it and then blow at the other end in order for the paint to splatter around the canvas, but that didn't work either because no paint would come out of the straw, just bits of paint that fell off. The best way to go was just by squeezing the paint out of the tube onto the canvas.
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Meaning
My meaning for this art work was to express visually an artist's mind. Every mind is different, especially the artist's mind. For example if a math person were to look at my art work they would just see colourful lines, but if another artist was to look at it they would look at it deeper, they would size the different sizes/ thickens of the lines, the texture and the different tones of the colours. They would immediately think what is the theme of this project, why did they use these tones of colours and not others, is there a different perspective to the painting if I turn it around, or how they felt while doing this, what kind of emotion were they feeling. As an artist I enjoy most the digital aspect of art, photography, graphic design etc. But sometimes I like to take a step back from that and paint something but I only really enjoy creating abstract pieces. This type of painting may seem simple to some, but its not. There is a lot of meaning behind each piece of abstract work, emotions that run with every brush stroke we make. With each new colour being picked a new memory, emotion is being awaken and expressed on a piece of canvas.
Inspiration
Reflection
I'm happy about the outcome of this piece, I enjoyed doing this, since I don't like any other type of painting other then abstract. I had difficulties at the beginning when I was trying to figure out what technique would best suit this type of work. I also had to remember to make the balance of the colours correct because I didn't want one dominate colour.
ACT Questions
1. Clearly explain how you are able to identify the cause-effect relationships between your inspiration and its effect upon your artwork.
My artist inspiration effected my work by setting an example, as well as guiding my creative process in order for me to accomplish my painting.
2. What is the overall approach (point of view) the author (from your research) has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
Jackson Pollock my inspiration, has guided me with his techniques and his means of expressing himself.
3. What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspiration?
I learned that even it may look easy to do such a painting like Jackson Pollock it isn't actually. Each artists have their own unique style of painting.
4. What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
To visually show the view of an artist's mind as well as to leave move for the interpretation of my piece to the viewer.
5. What kind of inferences (conclusions reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning) did you make while reading your research?
I learned more about my artisit inspiration, Jackson Pollock and his technique.
My artist inspiration effected my work by setting an example, as well as guiding my creative process in order for me to accomplish my painting.
2. What is the overall approach (point of view) the author (from your research) has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
Jackson Pollock my inspiration, has guided me with his techniques and his means of expressing himself.
3. What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspiration?
I learned that even it may look easy to do such a painting like Jackson Pollock it isn't actually. Each artists have their own unique style of painting.
4. What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
To visually show the view of an artist's mind as well as to leave move for the interpretation of my piece to the viewer.
5. What kind of inferences (conclusions reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning) did you make while reading your research?
I learned more about my artisit inspiration, Jackson Pollock and his technique.