Process of third year assignment.

Process of third year assignment.. Continued.

Engaging in our weekly studio critique session, I felt I had significant progress in my development towards ideas and subject matter for my assignment. Tutors mentioning artist models such as Jake and Dinos Chapman sparked ideas for me (for example, nightmares signifying grotesque realism) and looking at how Printmaking will influence my ideas and subject matter. Indeed my ideas are rather fluid (particularly metamorphosis) and print is rather restrict6ing and confining. To overcome this, I thought of introducing watercolour painting within my prints.

Jake and Dinos Chapman

 

Regarding my process, I am currently researching other modern grotesque artists and developing sketches of human skeletons and process to life drawing sketches. I do want to start beginning my prints this week, but will continue my sketches and watercolour drawings so I can develop my ideas from both. I feel I will develop most my ideas from this process.

Thoughts and Ideas for assessment

Thoughts and ideas for assessment

Okay so I have been looking through images of local printmaking artist Jason Greig. Mainly focusing in the Monoprint area, Greig looks a lot at horror films and the likes of Goya. He will definitely be an artist model for me to look at and draw ideas from. Also, I am interviewing Greig for an essay in Art history so once I receive his answers to my questions I hope it will give me some more ideas. Here a look at some of what his work is like....

Jason Greig

Jason Greig

 

 

I have been thinking more about what I want to portray (Grotesque realism and Metamorphosis) and feel the subject matter could relate closely to Nightmares and possibly to a lesser degree, Fantasy. At first i was unsure of the idea of fantasy due to the negative connotations it can sometimes have (fantasy world, games), however if I am creating images from nightmares and the like then it will come under fantasy and perhaps adding figurative elements within the prints might work?

 

One thing I am sure of is the material and medium I will be using to express these ideas. I will be experimenting with Monoprints (printmaking which are usually one offs), mainly using heavy dry point, watercolour and life drawing elements. Because my dry point usually consists of black and will be a heavy use of line, to introduce colour I thought using watercolour paints (perhaps to create a wash or a more vivid colour) would allow my works to become lighter in the sense of atmosphere. Indeed I did have this same problem with print last year, sometimes my works became too dark in their subject matter and colour and so to lighten my works I added splashes of tea in areas which balanced the works nicely. 

 

Regarding my subject matter, not only have I been looking at Jason Greig for ideas, but my previous artist model, Francisco Goya who created a lot of Etchings with elements of nightmares and grotesque imagery. I will be looking at him further this year to develop some of my ideas for this first assessment and possibly later on this year too. Because I bought a huge 10m roll of watercolour paper, I do plan on making large works, whether this be in the first half or second of third year.

 

 

Francisco Goya etching

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Final Assessment (Third year)

Third year fine arts assessment one:

Okay so I have finally entered my third year as a fine arts student, yay! I have been given an assessment to complete by mid December and then our work will be exhibited at a local gallery space so I better get a crack on!

For second year print I had an interesting brief in which we to create a series of prints relating to our own personal growth and Metamorphosis. I must admit I did do quite well in that assessment, however I don't feel quite ready to let that idea go and want to expand it into third year. I just don't know how to expand it further. I know I will be doing printmaking and life drawing for third year but incorporating different techniques within print will be a challenge.

Last year my main subject matter was hands and how they have manipulated by people around me to be the person I am today and how that effects myself. Of course I will be continuing this theory and add a little bit of Grotesque realism and distortion.

 

I have recently been looking at artist Shannon Williamson who creates these weird but beautiful watercolours of the exterior and interior of the human body... Its truly fascinating! Another artist who looks at the theory of grotesque realism is Dutch artist Rosa Verloop, making unsettling sculptures out of nylon and pins... Food for thought indeed.  

 

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-Shannon Williamson

-Rosa Verloop