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Jan

Ok, so I’ve been a bit grumpy for the past few days. I’ve been really irritable in class and at home. No-one has really been spared. I guess it’s understandable given the stress I’ve been under. Although, in class, I’m not the only one under stress, but I guess people react differently. Anyway, I handed in my analytical drawings. I was so frustrated with them, but I worked on the one piece today that was really bothering me, and I’m happy with it now.

Wouldn’t you agree that it’s much better than it looked yesterday? My tutor, Janice, really saved this piece for me. She added a bit of colour to the right side, improving it greatly, and I worked the rest of the it. I wouldn’t have thought to do this, but it worked out great!

I now only have to hand in my sculpture tomorrow. I will then have to finish my 3 compositional pieces, but we were told we can finish those on our week off, so things are looking much better now! Funny how one day things appear miserable, and the next day you wonder what all the fuss was about.

Jan

Oh, the stress!

Heather

I am incredibly stressed out at the moment. As you know my work is to be handed in this week, but my work isn’t up to scratch. I know it’s only two weeks early but it’s making a huge difference. The sessions are normally only ten weeks each instead of the normal seventeen (which the other Portfolio class are doing), so to have that ten cut to eight means we’re having to complete the work in half the normal allotted time. The stress of the last couple of days has made a huge impact on my ability to paint. I have been completely struggling to get my images right, and because they’re not going well I’m stressing out even more – just short of tears actually.

I got up at 6.30 this morning (my day off), and started painting almost immediately. I then had to go into college and pick up my personal statement for my uni application, which I need to hand in on Friday at the latest. Another stress I might add. I needed to relax, so I went to the cinema for a couple of hours to see Avatar. I came home and have been working all night on two of my analytical drawings and on my sculpture, which also needs to be handed in tomorrow. I feel like I’m bursting at the seams. I don’t even know what to do with the background on my painting. I’m stumped.

On another less stressful note, I bought a really nice journal today. A new shopping centre just opened near the city centre, so there are lots of new shops including Hobbycraft and Paperchase – both an artist’s dream. They had really beautiful journals and paper, such as moleskin, and if I had more money, I’d have bought heaps! As it happened I didn’t have more money so I bought just the one journal. Isn’t it lovely? I love the little bow on it. The pages are made of card, meaning it will be really easy to paint on without going through to the other side. I can’t wait to try it out, but only after I’ve had a day or two’s rest!

Category: Abstract, Painting, Visual Arts Tags: analytical drawing 4 Comments

Jan

Creative Composition: Collage I

Heather

As you’ll already know, I have to hand in all of my assignments for all of my projects next week instead of two weeks later. This means I’m more than a little stressed just now. Thankfully, I don’t have massive amounts to do. I have 5 pieces for Creative Composition to complete; one for Analytical Drawing and four on canvas for my Personal Project. I was hoping to complete all of my Composition pieces for Monday, but I think that’s highly unlikely now.

The reason? Well, there are different briefs for each compositional piece, but they must all be collage. Now, I’ve never done collage before – not a whole piece. I’ve added bit of collage to a painting, but that’s as far as it has got. The first assignment was to create a collage utilising disassociation. This means I had to create an image in a non-representational collage with focal point. Texture and colour determined the intensity/direction/focus. As a study in value this collage would be created in black and white. Well, for some reason, I took it into my head to create a weave from paper and glue it down onto the page. The paper is A3, so that’s a lot of weave!

I cut up newspaper into small strips of about 5mm in width and covered the whole page. This has taken me the best part of 6 hours to do! I have no idea what possessed me to do such a thing. I cut up further pieces and overlaid it diagonally on the object on the right side, and larger pieces elsewhere. I think it looks okay. It should look great after all the effort I put in!

On another note, after much cajoling and prodding by my tutors and classmates, I decided that I am going to apply to university! I have to write a personal statement for UCAS, and my tutor is writing a reference for me, both of which have to be handed in by this Friday. So, I’m really nervous. It’s all becoming extremely real! I’m applying to Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen. I would like to apply to Glasgow School of Art, but I can’t move for family reasons. However, Gray’s has an excellent reputation and some of my friends will be going there, so it will probably be much better for me, in that I don’t have to make new friends and adjust to being back home (Glasgow is 14 miles from my hometown and I’ve been away for 14 years) whilst trying to contend with study. All-in-all it’s probably for the best, but I would have loved being back home amongst my own people, close to the mountains, and in a proper city with tonnes of shops and culture. Oh well, maybe another time.

Category: Abstract, Visual Arts Tags: analytical drawing, collage, creative composition, glasgow school of art, gray's school of art 4 Comments

Jan

Further studies in analytical drawing and creative compostion

Heather

I had to recreate an abstract image using an analogous colour scheme for Creative Composition. I like the colours, but I’m really not satisfied with the painting. I’m on a deadline of handing in all my projects next week instead of two weeks later, so I’m feeling a bit stressed and I’m having to rush my work, which is really to my own detriment. I still have 6 more paintings to do for this subject, and they are all collage paintings. I’ve never created a whole painting from collage, and I think I’m going to find it much more difficult than just painting. I’m going to be majorly stressed over the coming week, so if I have a moan, please bear with me as I also have to hand in all my work for all of my subjects. I’m going to be exhausted!

I’m much happier with this painting though. I would not normally use purple, yellow and blue together, but once I had the object on the paper, I found that I really liked it. I definitely want to experiment more with it. This painting is for Analytical Drawing and I have one more painting to complete for this subject. Yay!

Category: Abstract, Painting, Visual Arts Tags: analytical drawing, creative compostion 6 Comments

Jan

Bits and bobs

Heather

Here are some images I’ve worked on in the past couple of days. This one is for Creative Composition. The task is to take one of the images I created for my last assessment and carry out 4 colour studies. They are: Monochromatic; Analogous; Complementary; and Translucent. This piece is a monochromatic colour study. I really like the colour and texture I’ve achieved in this piece, and it feels very icy.

This piece is a complementary colour study. It’s not the nicest colour scheme, but I wanted to try something other than using blue.

The next piece is for Contextual Studies, where I take elements of the works of Picasso and Dali and create a new piece. I used PVA glue that was stuck down the side of the glue bottle and put it on here. I also used paper towels.

This one is part of my Analytical Drawing. I will be adding various viewpoints of this object on the same page but not in a Cubist style. Rather it is to show how I got to my Cubist piece. I have used tissue paper on this piece.

It’s been snowing here for 3 weeks non-stop and temperatures have been as low as -22°C in some parts of the country and there have been snow drifts over 6ft high. Some of the snow has melted as it was only -12°C yesterday, and rose to about -5°C today although it has still been snowing on and off all day. It’s very pretty though.