Art Foundation

When looking into Unit 1, I wanted to explore the use of colour using influences from different artists and techniques. When looking into Julio Le Parc's work, I found the use of small dots of colours, mostly primery, were used to build up a larger piece. Inspired by this, I created some experiments influenced by this technique. Across, is one of the first experiments I did, in which I tried to use overlapping dots of colour to give the illusion of mixing a new colour. By using the cicrles overlapping I thought I would achieve this, however when I compleated the piece, it didnt have the effect I intended. I thought maybe the dots were too spread apart or too big.  So in reponce to this I created the piece below, which is a similar layout to a piece by Julio Le Parc, but I only used 3 colours not 4. I tried to use smaller dots in order to make them closer together, but I found it difficult to create a repetative dot pattern. When chosing a meduim to do this in, I f...

As a set task, we had to do some research on David Hockney, who is an English artist and photographer. The main focus is on the piece below, which is titled 'Pealblossm Highway' and is a photomontage of a highway in California, where Hockney lived for a period of his life. The piece looks at the road from both the driver and the passenger perspective. On the left of the piece, it focuses on what the passenger will be looking at out the window, as they aren't focusing on driving, they can look wherever they want out the window, noticing trees, and discarded rubbish on the floor. Whereas on the right-hand side (the driver's side in the US), the drive will be focused on the signs along the road, so the right of the painting is dominated by road signs and markings on the road. Pearblossom Hwy., 11 - 18th April 1986 The piece is made up of polaroid photos which were taken of the scene from different angles, some straight on, some from above, which give the slightly dis...

We took part in a workshop where we learnt the technique of acrylic transfering. We first began by selecting pieces of our work which we could use to do this process. I wanted to use simple drawings I've done so I can work on top of the pieces and add colour, to link it back to unit 1. The first piece I chose to do was a continuous line drawing of my car. biro line drawing of my car vinyl tile On the left is the original drawing I did in black biro. To create a tranfer you need to photocopy the photo to make a carbon copy, to allow it to tranfer onto the acrylic. I made two photocopies of this drawing, one in black and I did one in red too, to see how the colour would effect the outcome. I then had to choose the surfaces to print this on. I chose a vinyl tile and some black card as the two surfaces to print this on. To begin, using a brush or palette knife, white acrylic is spread onto the surface in an even layer, not too thin. I found it hard to get am even smoo...

"Grid Neiu"" Acrylic on canvas 60 x 48" For this first Unit, I have to investigate the use of drawing and colour, initially, I began doing research into artists and I came across 2 which caught my eye right away. Ed Moses, being the first, whose work caught my attention due to the use of mostly primary colours with a darker background. There were two types of his work which I found interesting, some which used linear lines of primary colours, mostly reds, and yellows, and then some pieces which use the same colours, but use more abstract marks. "Wipd" acrylic on canvas 60 x 48 Across is the first piece, titled 'Grid Neiu', which used a variety of red and yellow lines at diagonal angles across a black background. The colours used aren't completely opaque and gives some translucency between the layers, which adds more depth. There are also contrasts between the marks which Moses uses in the above piece, there are the harsh bold linear l...