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
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.
this whole research thing is really hard. In an attempt to actually find some really solid philosophical footing for my work to take I keep being sent down week long rabbit holes into topics like capitalist production, the uncanny, anthropology, that all end up coming back fruitless. Super interesting don't get me wrong, but none… Continue reading musical chairs except instead of music stopping its deadlines and instead of chairs its random academic PDFs
After pondering my last painting and sitting in front of the other two figuring what step would go next, I realised I really wanted to put a (compositional) frame around all of them. I wanted to tape off an inner rectangle, and take a thick solid colour right to the edge. I was worried that… Continue reading frames.
Today I finished a painting that for the most part of the making process I thought I had ruined. I started putting the finishing spots on it and with every spot, I grew to resent myself further, but I figured that I may as well finish it since I had started, and I'm very glad… Continue reading stepping back sometimes
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