Tuesday, January 6, 2009

06/01/2009


I drew a jigsaw shape on to several small sheets of water colour paper which I purchased at the Tate gallery. I plan to get photographs of missing people and with the use of paint remover, superimpose the images on to the sheets. I am hoping it will give vague, sort of ethereal type images, onto the sheets.

05/01/2009




Back to college after the christmas break. I was not happy with my missing person portrait, it lacked "body" (so to speak!). I added ultramarine blue in circular strokes around the head area, to give an impression of a being, possibly existing in some other worldly, or indeed non worldly existence, lost in space, in a manner of speaking. I am happy with the result, I believe I have achieved what I set out to do,it also beefs the painting up!

Sunday, December 21, 2008

19/12/2008

In library today (artist research).
There is no such thing as coincidence, everything happens for a reason !
Whilst researching the artist/film maker, David Lynch on Wilson web, there was a reference to the film Blue velvet. It transpires that ex student (and visiting artist ) Emmet kierans, had done his thesis on the psychological aspects on the film blue velvet ! It is a small world !
A while back we had a seminar with Aine, head of third year painting. I can't remember exactly what the seminar entailed, however, one of the artists she mentioned was William sasnel. I remembered his name obviously because I was impressed by his work, so, I Wilson webbed him but there was nothing there (that happens when there is nothing about he artist written anywhere) so thought nothing of it. Later, whilst googling something or other , William sasnel came back into my mind, "did you mean Wilhelm Sasnal"? google asked me, and hey presto there he was! and what an artist ! I have a new favourite artist, and his name is Wilhelm sasnal, he is brilliant, not too dissimilar in style to Luc Tymans, Marlene Dumas, etc. His 'haunting' portraits are exactly the kind of thing I have been looking for,I will use aspects of his work for my own practice.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

17/18 dec. 2008

Spent the past couple of days doing artist research.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

16/12/2008


16/12/2008

Christmas cards from Mary and Jenny, plus random notes left by person unknown !





16/12/2008 Jenny bright eyed today