Making Your Own Work: Week 11

 While working on this painting this week, it developed into a conversation between form and non form. I began the painting with no forms at all and focused primarily on the colors. Placing images of flowers on top of an abstracted background began this conversation of the representational and the abstracted. Scrapping away this image thus abstracted it and took away its form. I further broke this rule of the abstract by placing another representational image and leaving it.

Making Your Own Work: Week 9

As a way to start the process of creating my own work, I first decided on the palette colors I was going to use in the first step of making a scrapping painting. For the first one I went with vary hues of blue. Once I was satisfied with the color I produced, I applied them to the surface with the palette knife and scraped with a squeegee. When I took a step back from the painting, I realize the the colors I mixed were to dark and blended into each, thus leading me to mix lighter blues and applying those to the painting.

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Painting II proposal: week 8

For the next half of the semester, to create my own body of work I would like to continue producing scraping painting. In doing so, I am aiming to explore the idea of adding and subtracting from a painting. I would also like to experiment with different techniques in scraping away paint and adding more to the paintings. It is my goal to complete at least 8 painting varying in size during this part of the semester.
One influential artist on this semesters work is Gerhard Richter. In his works he uses a squeegee to move the paint around the canvas. In this process and technique allows for spontaneous and reactive gestures of adding, moving, and subtracting of the paint.