Art
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Acrylic on Paper. Having thought about the use of shape and line within constructivist works, this time I decided to put the drawing underneath a priming layer, also using this as a way of stretching the paper before painting to hopefully reduce the surface distortion that occurs as paper is wetted. This method has really…
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Dear Robin Leverton, Congratulations! Your artwork with title The Security Guard Wouldn’t Let Me In Until 08:30 has been approved and will start appearing with other works on screen at the 2nd floor of the Saatchi Gallery in the next 24 hours. Your work will remain in the loop as long as the screen is…
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Watercolour on Paper
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Acrylic on Paper. For this piece, I decided to double up the picture of the pins, to make a larger work. Then Instead of having effectively one continuous line, there are 4 separate groups of lines here. Each group has an umbrella colour: Red, blue, green and yellow. I used watercolour so that I could…
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Acrylic on Paper. I decided to make this painting having seen all the pins on my noticeboard. The spread was rather interesting, so I took a photograph and then plotted all the points onto a different piece of paper and began to join up the dots rather randomly. Then, starting with the base colour of yellow,…
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The tutorial began by talking about my tape and the great weight that it seems to betray and that it was reminiscent of Antoni Gaudi’s cathedral in Barcelona and the way in which to find the stress points on the arches, Gaudi hung string and attached weights to them, creating the shape for the supporting…
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I asked my tutor for a short tutorial about my work and my painting, asking his opinions on the pieces I had made and of my plans. Of the painting he explained that the background as it is is too distracting in the image (echoing my own thoughts), that its casual nature detracts from it…
Robin Leverton 