AUT MVA BLOG
Weekly check in September 9th-15th Following 'tinytrumpet' i found that its biggest failing was the lack of sophistication in the gradient, and after further look into Jess Johnson's work i saw that she only works with flat colours and that if she does have a gradient its done modularly through the pattern. So I tried… Continue reading wriggling
(august 31st- september 8th) The two new works I've made this week (since my last Jeena meeting) have taken me longer to make but i think theyre more considered as a result. I think I've finished my 'make a million paintings to work through my big ideas until i find a thing that works' phase,… Continue reading popping and locking down
"The Colour of Consciousness: an exploration of liminal spaces in the everyday and abstraction through paint." How can I build a visual language around the nature of liminal spaces — from my everyday — that values the affects these spaces invoke? How can a painting practice translate sensations into images comprising abstract shapes, textures and… Continue reading Thesis Plan/Chapters?
Following talk week I took a small break and didn't quite know what to do next. In a strange way, the Level 4 lockdown was exactly what I needed. In my optimistic arrogance I only brought home my coloured pencils, thinking the lockdown would only last a week. I had just done a large purge… Continue reading Lockdown Round 4
Trying to figure out where my paintings should sit together was hard because the big ones are still wet. but i managed to get someone to help me hold them while I pinned them up. Ive put the two large ones the furthest apart because I want them to be visible together but I want… Continue reading install shminstall
I'm writing a list of things I want to do over the break before we get back to semester because I'm gonna take a week off to exist and rest and actually have a social life so this is for when I get back into studio I can remember what I was gonna do. this… Continue reading to do next:
Amy showed me Jonathan Lasker's work and needless to say i really really like it but it made me realise that I've done all this research for studio and my essays and my research currently lives in my open tabs and that I should probably make an actual post about the artists I'm looking at… Continue reading Becks and the Big Wigs™
Whilst making one of the minis I decided to tape up a triangle to paint and i got really excited about it. and in my head, what i meant to think was "wow I haven't used a triangle before" and what I actually thought was "wow I haven't hung out with a triangle before" whilst… Continue reading yikes becks
obviously its winter, and I've bitched about this before, but my oil paint just isn't drying. Seeing that the deadline is in five days and half of those are gonna be spent painting the walls back to white, I've decided that for the minis, they have to be acrylic. (the minis are my little A4… Continue reading The time crunch and the compromise
I'm often resentful at the cost of art supplies as a broke student, and it pains me to say it, but it really does make a difference. here is the painting before and after getting my hands on a decent yellow. There are more layers to come, especially on the yellow spots, but the colour… Continue reading Okay Jeena, I get it.
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