References. .

Just came across this on stumble upon and thought it was really cool!

This is called Still Life and is done by Sam Taylor Wood. I found this really interesting not only because it relates to my work but because of what it stands for and how it was created.

These are the two pieces that inspired me to create a piece of mold, I can't find the website I found them from so can't remember the names but they're done by Rachel Harrison and Dieter Roth.

Photographs

Here are some of the photographs I took of the mold piece.

 This is a painting I did looking at a section of the piece. It didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.

Here are some textures I have been looking at that are influenced by molds.

 <-- I did this by chopping up a few corks, sticking them down, and painting them with acrylic.

 I found a plastic food container that had a circular pattern on the bottom. I painted half the page in very thick acrylic, pressed the plastic into it, and printed it onto the other half of the page. You can feel the texture of the paint on the left hand side and see the pattern the plastic left. -->

<--This is melted acetate. I painted the page with watercolours, melted the acetate by holding it over the fire, and squeezed it into the shape I wanted. I then dropped drops of watercolours on top.

After making the plaster molds I realised that a very effective texture could be made by pouring plaster over a fleecy or fluffy material. I did this here and then stretched the material so that the plaster cracked. I painted it with watery acrylic paint. -->

1st December

I can't believe it's December already! The weeks have flown. I have moved on quite a lot from the literary sense of the fridge, I had gotten pretty bored of it! I attempted to make a plastic and wire fridge structure but failed. I also did some more work with acetate, sewing thread into the shapes of the different objects.

Layered up.. shows the traces of the movement.












Instead of turning the fridge concept 3D, which was not working for me at all..  I decided to explore a sculptural concept of mold. I found an artist that has explored this before, Rachel Harrison, and was inspired by her work. This lead me to working with plaster.

I made the structure out of cardboard and wrapped it in materials. I then poured the plaster over and when it was dry I painted it with watery acrylic.

I did two. The second one turned out a lot better because I got the effect of the mold.

Number 1

Number 2: 



17th November

I've started working with acetate so that movement can be seen between each of my drawings. 

I copied three of my drawings onto acetate first to try it and see would it work. I put them one over the other but it just came out very messy, so here I spaced them out, making a gap between each piece with wood sticks. 

I decided to go bigger, with bigger spaces, and make the drawings more accurate. 

I got a frame made, drew out ten of my drawings onto acetate, punched holes in the top and hung them from the frame.

This didn't work very well as the bottom of the acetates stuck together. I'm going to put the paper rods through the bottom corners too so that they'll be separated. More pictures to come!

15th November

I tried doing some Shibori last night.. it took me over two hours!

As I'm working with molds I thought it would be an interesting texture to experiment with. I have yet to finish it but heres how its looking so far...

REFERENCE MATERIAL

I took apart an old necklace, wrapped each pearl in the cloth, and tied string around it.

I really like the detail that came out on the back, but the front refers to mold more.

9th November

I'm still working on my fridge painting. It's taking me a long time but I plan to get it finished during the next few days.

I was messing around with the idea of silhouettes during the last two weeks and realised it was easier to track the movement of the items in the fridge when they were just black or white with no details. I made a series of shapes out of news paper..

 I then glued magnets to the back of them and stuck them onto my fridge. I took pictures, changing the order each time, and put them all into Movie Maker. I'm happy with how it turned out.. but I'm going to do it again with shelves drawn in and making sure the objects aren't crooked!

I changed the effect and got this outcome which I prefer.

5th November

Since the progress reviews I must admit I haven't done much work. I was sick for a few days and then Halloween and the long weekend was here so I had a lot of distractions! But I'm ready to get back into it now.. I have lots of ideas that I need to get started on and I'm excited about that!

I started looking at molds that grow on food by getting images of it under the microscope from Google as this was a lot prettier than the real thing! I started experimenting with textures to create patches inspired by these images.

Paint, Origami and Finger Knitting

Watercolours splashed with water

Wool and Tissue

Watercolours

Experimenting with more watercolour

Up to now..

This week was tough because progress reviews are next week and everyone is working really hard. I'm still working on the painting and over the weekend I hope to finish it and do some experimenting with materials in my sketchbook. I also plan on looking at molds that grow on food because this is movement in itself.

Just want to upload a few pages from my sketchbook to track how I got to where I am now..
I started with the idea of capturing movement and motion, through film, pictures, paintings...

 I love the work by the Impressionists and was inspired by their use of paint to portray movement and motion. They captured fleeting moments through their brushwork and thick use of paint. I was heavily influenced by Monet's series of paintings such as his Poplar and Rouen Series and wanted to us this idea of drawing repeated scenes to capture the changes.

I thought to draw the same thing everyday and see how it moves and changes. I came up with the idea of drawing my fridge each day as it is constantly moving. I did this for a few days and didn't see it going anywhere so I went back to Monet and thought again. I wondered what it was that made Rouen look different in each painting and realised it was the light and atmospheric changes. This led me to look at clouds and light+shade but I was advised to go back to the fridge idea!

I'm happy with where my project is at now. I experimented with photocopies of my drawings last night and played around with the idea of negative space and black and white shapes. I think it was successful in capturing the movement of the objects I'm not focusing on the details but just the shapes themselves. 

I plan on making a frame out of wood with slots in it that will hold acetate drawings that I can place one in front of the other, so that when you look through you can see all the layers of the filling up and emptying fridge.

18th October

Last Thursday we went see the Dublin Contemporary 2011 Exhibition. I found it really interesting and it really opened my mind to what art can be. I liked Vera Klute's drawing of the Public Pool. The main exhibition was in an old school so there were over one hundred little rooms with installations in each. These were really different and inspiring works. We spent the rest of the day going to smaller galleries around Dublin, including Sean Scully's gallery.

Today I went to a talk by Des about Print Making. I hated print in school but I found this really cool and can't wait to try it out now, especially the acitate type.

I started a painting yesterday, it's A1 size and taking me a long time but I think it's going well so far. The idea is that on the left there is a fridge full of food and it gradually moves and empties to the right where very little remains. Between each section I'm going to blur the food so that it melts and fades into the next.

I have been doing small pen drawings of the contents of my fridge each day and I now have about twenty. I'm not sure whether I'll make a flick book out of them or stick them onto black paper in a grid format yet.