17/01/19 Painting and Sanding
How does classical music translate to movement, to representation and even actual events? The Arrival of the Birds literally sounds at times like a sky full of frenzied small bodies, at other times it captures the moments when the birds find a wind stream and just glide clean. Amazing.
Studio time was very useful yesterday, speaking with Joe was invaluable. Also, I seem to work well with a desk. Super productive- for me.
I also spoke to the woodshop room and I'd missed their loveliness. I saw Rory and we spoke about Blog feedback, a meeting to take place at some point about fine tuning my blog so it works better and to make sense of my feedback.
I painted thin layers over pieces of wood I've been slowly layering up each time I'm in the studio. I scraped most of them for the last assessment/ crit but had a few crap ones left over. I took them to the workshop instead of keeping them at my desk and I used a mechanical sander to reveal layers underneath.
It wasn't particularly successful however it was good to receive feedback from people who aren't totally alien from 'art' but also have a different set of eyeballs from anyone I'd bump into on floor 4. They seemed to prefer the paintings as they were and thought sanding would smudge the colours or that they would just appear white. I went through quite a bit of sandpaper but I liked the results. I think when using this technique, thicker and more plentiful layers would produce more dramatic effects.
This shows that you can draw with texture, just layer up and sand to show the edges. I could use this in so many ways.
I scraped it a little, it just went through to the wood layer but I have learned;
Tomorrow
See the tutor lady in the library,
Bring back the books from researching John's essay.
Bring in more paint and try some work on the paper pad- get some practice in for the exhibition in March. I want to paint for that but I want it tan o be assemblage of painted objects or I want it to be sculture using paint.
I don't why I like paint or think I should be using it. It feels a little manipulated. Why do we use paint? We could use anything. Why do I pay a certain amount for a tiny tube when I could pay less at Wickes but it's called a different name. I suppose it's a physical manifestation of colour in our heads. It's colour, but it isn't.
What else could be exchanged and used as replacement?
Makes me think of Michael Craig- Martin and An Oak Tree. A beautifully light touch for such a large and confusing topic.
Watch Later:
He talks about the fundamentals of art, I think he means how when we try to get closer to a subject we return to reality.. The deeper into something I research the more I edit until I have hardly anythign left and I realise what I'm dreamign of already exists in the world so why bother?
He is fantasitc. I need to reaearch him more.
I am painting as a way to quickly and physically make something, before my hands give up and I'm just a tiny floating body in my own brain.
Studio time was very useful yesterday, speaking with Joe was invaluable. Also, I seem to work well with a desk. Super productive- for me.
I also spoke to the woodshop room and I'd missed their loveliness. I saw Rory and we spoke about Blog feedback, a meeting to take place at some point about fine tuning my blog so it works better and to make sense of my feedback.
I painted thin layers over pieces of wood I've been slowly layering up each time I'm in the studio. I scraped most of them for the last assessment/ crit but had a few crap ones left over. I took them to the workshop instead of keeping them at my desk and I used a mechanical sander to reveal layers underneath.
It wasn't particularly successful however it was good to receive feedback from people who aren't totally alien from 'art' but also have a different set of eyeballs from anyone I'd bump into on floor 4. They seemed to prefer the paintings as they were and thought sanding would smudge the colours or that they would just appear white. I went through quite a bit of sandpaper but I liked the results. I think when using this technique, thicker and more plentiful layers would produce more dramatic effects.
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I wanted to document this one, halfway being painted, I liked how the two halves clash. I thought about the possibility of having a painting perfectly painted, as best as I can.. then painting smudgy ways over nearly the whole thing. OR to save time, a ready done painting from a charity shop? Maybe a well known, domestic painting. like a Constable. 
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Martin thought these were alright, he also said that I might lose a lot of stuff and it would lose clarity. I realised I don't care about this kind of stuff because I can always make another. 
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Sanding shows very thick chunks of paint at the top. I thought this was the most useful of the whole thing, it's clear that I've sanded through the colour. 
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This one has poly filler underneath, creating all the texture. Too much texture, too angular. Not curvy enough. Not like my dreams.
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This shows that you can draw with texture, just layer up and sand to show the edges. I could use this in so many ways.
I scraped it a little, it just went through to the wood layer but I have learned;
- If you use gloss on unprepared, shit wood you are never getting it off.
- If you apply gloss thick over colour and then apply a thick gloss over that, you can peel back pieces easily and reveal the colour.
- (Acrylic) paint doesn't work like material, you can't just apply a wash because you will lose tone as well as vibrancy. The colours in my head cannot be reproduced because they aren't real, because they are bright AND dull at the same time.
- The cheap gloss is as good as anything else.
- Paint is dear and small tubes are a bloody waste of time.
- I do not know how to paint and I don't have life to burn by watching tutorials.
- I love painting. I always wanted to jump into colour. I think painting is probably the nearest thing to swimming in full, immersive colour.
- I am struggling with 'abstract'and I always finish things a few stages after where I should have stopped. LIVE WITH THINGS WOMAN.
- Nice paint brushes make everything better.
- Wood is easier than paper or canvas. Wood lets you be rough, treat it like crap and still survives and you don't have to mix on a palette, just dots on the wood and chuck water on.
Tomorrow
See the tutor lady in the library,
Bring back the books from researching John's essay.
Bring in more paint and try some work on the paper pad- get some practice in for the exhibition in March. I want to paint for that but I want it tan o be assemblage of painted objects or I want it to be sculture using paint.
I don't why I like paint or think I should be using it. It feels a little manipulated. Why do we use paint? We could use anything. Why do I pay a certain amount for a tiny tube when I could pay less at Wickes but it's called a different name. I suppose it's a physical manifestation of colour in our heads. It's colour, but it isn't.
What else could be exchanged and used as replacement?
Makes me think of Michael Craig- Martin and An Oak Tree. A beautifully light touch for such a large and confusing topic.
Watch Later:
Michael Craig-Martin — 'I'm Interested in Language' | TateShots
He talks about the fundamentals of art, I think he means how when we try to get closer to a subject we return to reality.. The deeper into something I research the more I edit until I have hardly anythign left and I realise what I'm dreamign of already exists in the world so why bother?
He is fantasitc. I need to reaearch him more.
I am painting as a way to quickly and physically make something, before my hands give up and I'm just a tiny floating body in my own brain.
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