This is a photo of what I described in a previous blog entitled 'More Colours'. I hope you all enjoyed my blogs on my project, Movement and Motion, because my assessment is looming! Thanks for taking the time to look at my work. I can't wait to get started on the discipline work so hopefully there will be more blogs :)

Sketchbook Moments

I was reflecting on the Movement and Motion Project today and thought the best way to go about writing a statement to describe my work was to look at my concepts in my sketchbooks and how my work became a sequential progression. I only ever blogged my bigger pieces of work so here is a look at some of the bits in my sketchbook...

More colours..

I divulged into some yellows and greens before the Christmas break. The colour ideas came from some differently toned photocopies I had been working with of my paper sculptures. I created a piece with these colours with the properties of a print where a certain colour of cardboard had to remain behind each sheet of cardboard because I cut out a design from not just one sheet of cardboard but five. I painted the five sheets a different variation of yellow until it was strong enough to develop into green. This idea originated from the thoughts of an artist, Terry Frost, who studied colours in serious depth. There is clear movement through the different coloured layers because I decided to maintain the white substance when I cut the card to reveal the design. The design is from the stretched paper sculptures. It resulted as being quite an interactive piece because there was an element of desire to play with the shapes in the design and rearrange the colours.

The design and preparation:

About time I got myself a profile picture!

Just made a pro-pho! This is my self-portrait picture. It represents me being happy! My friend took the photograph for me against a purple background because it is my favourite colour. My charm bracelet is on my wrist. The charms symbolize the different events in my life, they symbolize meeeee!

The Purple Corner...

This is where it all happens! It is soooo Purple!

I used three shades of dripping paint to recreate a shape I saw from the paper sculpture ball. It is interesting because of the way the paint moved and merged into the different shades of purple.

 I really like the idea of paint dripping and having the control to move it in different directions but yet having not quite enough control to foresee the end product. I wanted a more subtle background for my spirals so I used the paint dripping and merging into one another but with very pale whites and pinks.

I much prefer this spiral collage painting because I used the paper sculpture ball to help me composition the spirals and gave a slight raise to some of the the collage pieces. It helped create more movement and motion.

Painting in a different nature...

This is a collage painting inspired by artist, Beatriz Milhazes. It has a very simplistic, smooth finish technique. I cut the shapes from different coloured purple sheets that I previously painted. The shapes were cut from the shapes that the photocopy (on the left) translated from the paper sculptures!

These are white plastic pom poms that are hanging in my studio space. I thought these were interesting in relation to this part of my project because I used them to examine the purple hues and the reflections from the plastic.

This is another painting of mine with the paper sculpture designs in mind. I put a layer of PVA glue and dark purple paint onto a black background. While it was still wet, to experiment, I scrope off some of the glue and paint. My favourite thing about the painting is when the excess paint from the scraping was left on the page, there were purple colours that merged together.

Adding a Touch of Colour!

I decided that it was time to introduce some colour to my mainly black and white project! I chose purple because the more I looked at my paper sculptures, the more  I began to see purple and blue hues.

I also engaged with the colour through the medium of paint/mark making. It was no longer the time for typical painting with brushes so I learned some innovative ways! I researched the work of artist, Beatrice Milhazes. She paints on plastic and metals and then, cuts these into shapes to make a collage painting. I was working on this during the week and will continue with it next week. I also attended a mark-making workshop with two tutors, Sylvia and Grainne, who encouraged me to use tools such as rollers and bamboo canes to make marks. I am fascinated by transparent paper which I used to make the marks. This type of paper works excellently because it reminds me of the original concept of the dandelion and its transparent nature when it is in the clock stage.

I also left paint at different thicknesses and various shades of purple splash on a page. I loved the result because the splashes gave the effect of the dandelion clock's movement when they are blown.