29/09/2009 Contd.

I had a canvas at home, which I brought in to experiment on. I used blue glitter glue, which I had spread over the canvas with a ruler, and proceeded to "take out shapes" with a scraper. It was basically just an experiment to see what kind of effects I could get

29/09/2009

Had a tutorial with Mark this morning. I gleaned much useful and informative tuition from him. He is very knowledgeable in many  subjects/topics, I believe he will help me greatly in my artistic education. He has given me a list of artists' to research, which he believes will be of good reference for my work. I explained a couple of my ideas to him, and he seems to be fairly open minded about them. I expect I will learn a lot from him this year.

We went to the Wickham street studios, to see actual artists in their studios, most of them are ex students of LSAD whom I know to see. It was very interesting to hear what the artists had to say about their individual practice's, it was also good to see what kind of works they were producing. While all the work appeared to be of a very high standard, the two artists who had taken their M.A. degrees, seemed to have that something extra to their work,(coincidence?) or was it the very fact that I knew this, that made the work more appealing to me ???........ Hmmmm... Interesting

28/09/2009

Continued with blue painting. Had a materials workshop with Mark O Kelly  today. I have learned so much today. As a fourth year art student, perhaps a lot of the things I should have known as a matter of course, but I was not alone, many of my colleagues also commented about how much knowledge they gleaned from Mark today. I have no doubts whatsoever,that these tips/pointers will go a long way in reinforcing our professionalism as artists.

25/09/2009

 Continuing with my investigations with different ways of displaying artworks. Put a support under one section of the canvas, and hung the other end from the ceiling hope  to paint on this at a later stage.On the way to college, I 'found' a disused roadworks sign, Richard Slade cut me some mdf to fit into the space where the sign once was. I have put an base coat of orange on it . I will paint an artist at work; a reference to the change of direction in my studio practice.

I cut a couple of odd shaped pieces of wood with which to paint on. I got a couple of remarks from colleagues, as to the strangeness of them. One I have started to paint blue,(the sea of my creative instincts?) with strokes of varying angles to create a sense of tension (a reference to my own sense of tension with regards to painting?) I have a wooden  figure 'hanging on to the board with one hand, while he perilously paints, and  tries to bring some sense of unification between painting and the new world media, with which he has become accustomed to working with. 

25/09/2009

24/09/2009

I completed the inverted canvas's. I suppose in some sense, I am raising questions as to the validity of the square canvas painting, in a white cube setting. In the twenty first century, as in the 18th century, without really any significant change. Why is this so? with so much advancement in technology etc. OK, I know many artists have explored many different ways of exhibiting their wares, but it basically still comes back to square canvas painting in a white cube setting. Will carry on exploring this phenomena, and see what kinds of ideas surface.

23/09/2009

In some sense, while I have a reasonably strong sense of where I am heading with my work this year, I have been knocked off the rails (so to speak) beacause of the 'encouragement' to paint this year. It is something which I have not put a lot of thought into over the summer, and as a consequence, have come up against a wall (albeit a small one ). Just to continue with the work ethos, I have glued three small canvas's (I wonder should that be canvi LOL!) together in a triangular shape, I will do three more tomorrow, and invert them on top of the first three; possibly paint on them just to loosen up the electricity in my painting arm !!!
Had tutorial with David this morning, it went well, I realise that my first writings were in some sense a little outdated; theoretical speculation, with not very much evidential reference.  Obviously by having read more books, I have become more knowledgable on the subject. David seems happy enough with direction I am heading in.