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.

12th October

On Monday we had two lectures. The first was about collaboration as we were told about a project that will be happening in the next few months. We have to take a self portrait of ourselves that describes our personality and who we are. They will all then be put together as a collage and hung in the hall. I think this is a really good idea but I don't have many ideas for my photo yet! .

For the last week I've been working on making a fridge out of wire. I'm planning on covering it in paper mache when its done..
I used chicken wire for the body and florist wire to basically knit it all together.. I then weaved barbecue skewer sticks into the chicken wire to make the structure more stable.

One month in...

I started in LSAD four weeks ago and I'm just settling into the swing of things now. We got a project on the first week called Movement and Motion and we've been working on it since. At first I started exploring a few different themes like trains, dancers, and capturing movement. One of my favourite artists is Claude Monet and when I saw his series of Rouen Cathedral paintings I thought of movement and motion. Even though each painting is of the same subject, they are all completely different becuase of the changing light. When I saw them all in a row, I realised there was great movement in each painting. Keeping this technique in mind I started to explore how I could use the same idea to describe movement. I decided to document the inside of my fridge as this would change everyday. I'm going to expand on this by documenting other domestic scenes that change frequently.