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.