drawing
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After messing around with various glitching techniques, I needed to start putting my focus back onto the architectural and landscape aspects of my work that pushed me into that frame in the first place. Armed with the photographs I took over the summer that can be seen in this post here, I began again to
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One of the most important elements of my figure drawings is the landscape that encompasses the characters. My wish is for these landscapes to feel as expansive as those of surrealist origins, but not be directly surreal. Furthermore, Having encountered the work of Artist Gordon Cheung I have really wanted to try and
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In configuration 9 the rule I used was that instead of using colour as the positive element dictate the fill, I’d let the traditionally negative elements i.e. white and the background prime colour dictate how the fill is carried out. This comes from how I have begun to read into John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg
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Acrylic on Canvas. I really like the way this piece turned out. The colours seem to join well together for me (being colourblind I can’t say that this is the same for everyone) and I think the way the drawing was laid out really gives a lot of space and attention to every facet.
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Having all but removed the lines from a painting, this time, I decided to remove the colour and leave the lines to play amongst themselves. This piece uses 4 of the source image which has resulted in the 4 clusters that are visible within the work. The piece itself is sort of reminiscent of
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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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After creating my clocks piece, I began to see the lines on the faces of the clocks point to each other, forming patterns and shapes. Wanting to explore this, I took some tracing paper and followed the lines to a satisfactory shape that I was happy with aesthetically. Rather than just repeating the same
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