This week I started to look at the artist jenny Saville and I am in love with her work. Her work is so interesting. She creating these beautiful paintings by simply placing large women on glass and letting their skin and flesh morph them into something else.For those who don't know what her work is like these are a few images of her work.

Her work got me really excited about my own work so i started to go around to people in college and got them to press their faces against a sheet of acetate which made their faces somewhat distorted. These are a few of the images.

From these pictures i created line drwings of these pictures on sticky notes.i hope to do a large piece with an A1 sheet covered in these small line drawings.

This week I started to look at the wire faces I made and started to do line drawings of my face in different emotions. I then drew them onto acetate .I then layered all the acetates onto one and other. This piece I feel turned out well as from a frontal view the image is quite distorted but from the side you can see each individual facial movement. If I had more time I would like to of made this piece a bit more finished.

Face Melting

From the plaster cast i learnt how to make a wax mold properly but i felt it didn't work out as good. I tried to distort it by melting it with a lighter.

Ok so from my paintings I started experimenting in 3d...so I took a cast of my face with plaster Paris....I then covered the cast in latex. I did this to prevent the wax from sticking to the cast. This didn’t quite work as the latex stuck to the wax, but I actually liked the end product as it looked quite distorted and interesting.

People don’t try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.....

So lately I’ve been trying to move on from paintings (comfort zone) and tried mixing different materials into my paintings.

Top picture is a painting done with watercolour and the bottom one is a piece of scrim glued onto paper and painted onto it.I like added different textures to the painting and i like how the scrim casts a blurred shadow over one side of the painting.

From this piece i decided to do a more detailed piece using the scrim and acrylic paint.

Then I wanted to work with a material that symbolised entrapment as the thyme of my project is slightly going in that direction so i started drawing some  blind drawings and making wire pieces of them.

I then stared overlapping these wire pieces onto my paintings to symbolise entrapment of emotions.

I now have started to work away from painting for a bit and started working with baking paper and drawing on that and acetate .

I am now planning on doing a sculpture piece of 20 sheets of acetate with different emotions on them. I will then hang them one in front of the other about an inch apart. As you look directly at the piece it won't be clear as to what you will be looking at. Will keep you up dated on how it’s going.

Ceramics!!

Last week I went to a talk about a group of Irish ceramic artists who travelled to the Chinese town of Fuping, Shaanxi, to make a ceramic collection for the Fule International Ceramic Art Museum. I found their work amazing. Elaine Riordan who was a part of this ceramic group gave the talk. She gave us an insight into the other artist works as well as her own pieces which was really interesting. I loved that the artist’s works were exhibited in our college gallery as we got to see them up close and in person which made me see them in a total different light as I could see the fine detail that went into these pieces.

Elaine Riordan

I love the detail and tones that are in these pieces. I like how this artist has incorporated an architectural element into her pieces. Even though it’s a very structural piece there is still sense an organic element .
there were many other pieces that i found intersting and gave me great inspiralton for my own work.

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The talk and exhibition gave me great inspiration for my project seeing how these artists took ceramic to a totally different level by using mediums I didn’t even think could be used in ceramics.

Portrait Project

This blog thing is really hard to get the hang of...anywho this weekend I made it my priority to get my portrait project done and dusted.For this project we had to take a photo of ourselves and all orur photos will be exhibited togerther ,which is quite easy but me being awkward brought an armchair out onto my favourite place in the world the cliffs of Ardmore .but I had the help of my dad cause there’s no way I would be able to lift it .

Why? you might say that i brought a chair up onto this cliff. The view is the most amazing view I’ve ever seen and I wanted to bring an element of comfort to the area. It’s a view that you wish u could watch for hours in the comfort of your sofa
It didn’t take too long to do and I did get quite strange looks but I got my pictures in the end so now  i don’t know which one to choose.

I might fix it a bit before I hand it up but these are the photos.

 

I’ve started my first year in Limerick School of Art and Design and so far I love it. I’m after starting my first project, titled “Movement and Motion” and it’s up to us what we want to do with it, which will be a bit of a challenge but who doesn’t love a challenge. 

So since I got this project its crazy how my mind has become focused on the movement in everyday things from the movement of trees to the movement of water to the movement a person to the movement of a person travelling, I’ve come to realise that everything moves and has its own motion.Sure even the world that we live on MOVES..!!!

So what have I narrowed this movement all down to.I’m focussing on the movement in emotions. I’ve always been fascinated on how people express their emotions, for me I express it through movement .I find it amazing how the movement in the cresses of a face can totally change a person’s emotion they are expressing. How the movement in the body can express different emotions and feelings like the movement of a hand up to your eyes can express frustration, distressed or scarred. I love how different mediums and brushstrokes can express different emotions as well. I’ve finished a painting where it’s a painting of blank emotion but by using watercolours and dripping I’ve turned it into an emotional painting. I apologise for the photograph and will put up a better one.