Making Your Own Work: Week 14

This week I am stilling working on the third painting. With the way I have been applying and scrapping the paint is creating linear lines of colors giving it a geometric feel. I don't have much reflection on this one as it is still in the beginning stages. I'm still not exactly sure the outcome for this one and just allowing each step and layer to guide me as to what to do next. I do however plan to continue with scratching on a figure on the final layer to keep with the hidden image of the figure seen in the previous one.

Making Your Own Work: Week 13

The top photo is of the second painting I've been working on with the hidden figure within the abstract. I'm taking a break from this one as I'm not sure whether or not I want to add more hidden information to it. The bottom photo is a new painting started this week. With this one I want to start the process of the abstract differently than the others to see whether the abstracted marks would come out differently. I started with mixing colors and scooping globs of them on to the surface. Then took the squeegee and scrapped the globs around allowing the squeegee to pick up the paint and making the marks across the surface. This resulted in more lines of colors.

Making Your Own Work: Week 12

This week I wanted to continue with a conversation between representation and the abstracted. I began a new painting similarly to the other one. I created an abstract by still adding paint to the canvas and using a squeegee to wipe it away. I continued doing this in three layers. The final layer ( not shown above yet) I will draw on a male figure with a pencil cutting into to the paint leaving a mark that is legible yet is hide within the abstract. I choose to do a figure on top because to me the human figure is a concrete form that can contradict with the abstract already produced.  

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.

Artist???

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.

     

B.A Portfolio: critique

During my critique with Laura Mongiovi we focused mostly on how my works were gonna be displayed. We discussed the option of framing them. She stated that because my images have a feminine aspect to them that adding frames would give them a sensual feeling. Adding frames to them would also make them precious objects which illustrates how we turn photographs into precious objects in order to immortalize our beauty through photos. She also mentioned the possibility of not framing them and having them coming slightly from the wall creating a space between the wall and the images as to see through the burned whole. By doing this it would give my work more of a human aspect.