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Life drawing workshops with Eoin McCormack ( 26/4/21)

I choose pineapple to challenge myself with detail, @eoinmclsad wanted big scale I worked on A1 Size paper, focusing on my last piece of the workshop, the video shows I'm focusing more on the fabric getting the fabric to fold continues with out line. The changing off the pineapple became part of the painting with time.

Medium- Oil paint

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Gerhard Richter

-German painter

Gerhard talks how important photography is how important it is to take a photograph. The feeling of wanting to work into it

"The feeling of these little photos"

Gerhard mother was very cultured they had a close relationship. The father went to war, there relationship was very detached

As I was looking though Gerhard Richter's works It made me feel something that was is now of past, it's became a distant memory, the feeling of the smear over his work. In my work is spear over my works to create something of feeling, the feeling of detachment between two. How memory becames a spear over wet paint.

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@eoinmclsad self portrait workshop (19/4/21)

This mornings workshop really made me get into a flow of self portrait I couldn't pull myself away from it so I continued working into my last 20 minutes piece.

-A1 Size self portrait

I used bamboo-charcoal and my fingers, the texture of the to mediums worked really well for me.

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Amy Parrish

In 2018, Amy Parrish wrote a letter to her grandmother, who was struggling with dementia, but just a few months later, her grandmother died before Parrish got around to sending it.

Parrish says that on her final visit in 2017, her grandmother worriedly asked her, "What would you have done if I didn't recognize you?"

Amy collected her grandmother's childhood photos and wanted to tell

Memory And Loss Through Photographs

"At times the lines between reality and delusion seem blurred," Parish says.

I'm very interested in Amy Parrish work, the way she works into her photos, captures to soft gentle moments and makes it stick out all at once as fading over a memory.

When I looked at Amy's work, I felt like the fade through her photos was the Dementia slowly creeping in, at her end Amy's grandmother didn't recognize her. That sense of Memory and lost at once.

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Workshop with Eoin McCormack 22/3/21

On Mondays workshop with @eoinmclsad we were asked to produce a few pieces that didn't show figurative or illustration, just something that told a story. I focused on my story. It seems figurative but I wanted to show it in a way where the figures where there but not really there, faded into the background.This piece has became something for me. The workshop had such a great atmosphere that after it I continued doing more similar works similar to what I did during it.

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I cathered some tiles to do Some different samples of a memory of my father carrying me on his shoulders in the evenings whilst keeping count of the farm animals, that's a flash of memory that sticks out in my mind (the attached). In some I faded over the paint to create that memory is there but its almost faded in the back of my mind (Detached).

The sence of love and lost.

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Marilyn Minter

American Painter and photographer, I'm really connecting with her work, she inspired me to gain some similar photos, she creates a feeling in each piece that she dose and that's what attracted me, thats what I want to do with my story, to show a photo without words to speak for its self.

"Once I learned how to make something from a photograph, I learned how to make my paintings". - Marilyn Minter

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I wanted to capture the fading look through a photo of myself in some way, after chatting with @paintingyear1lsad (Sylvia), I imagined just creating some steam from the running shower would give the best affect, it was definitely the best result. With these photos I wanted to give the idea of a distant memory, faded in time. Against my skin there is paint.. it makes sense in a way of always having that escape. Through these photos I want to gain some pieces through paintings and drawing

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Eoin McCormack

(investigate what STORY can be in a painting context though eoin own studio work.)

Eoin's talk actually gave me a really clear indication that it doesn't have to be just the canvas and you, it's of what you use in your studio, the half empty paint tubes and rags lieing around its what your work leaves behind, markings splattered on the walls, the floor covered over in layers of colour from your previous works, the journey of your daily use of materials and letting that betrays its own story. This talk loosened me up in away to not concentrate to much on that one piece but to do it in multiple ways also. I really enjoyed eoins talk and looking at his work definitely made me want to work big but inspired me to start doing quick built up Paintings.

#mystudio #mystory

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Mind Mapping my story "Detached" pining down some ideas and forming images of flashes of my memorie , im going to be doing more of this to create more verity when picking them to form a series of some sort. I wanted you to just have an ideas of what im getting at here. It's about the relationship between a father and daughter, the flashes of good and bad memories, Me turning that into something for you to also connect with in your own way, I want to use this to explore more into colour.

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Exploring Story Through Painting with Sylvia Shortall (15-3-21)

Oil on canvas, After Sylvia guideing us through our imagination this morning, I imagined myself lieing in grass in a wide field, the sun shining brightly in my face and felling the warmth, the sun was shining in my face at the time as I imagined my story, that felt amazing in that moment and time,I captured myself when the sun was beaming off my skin, got me thinking about my flashes of moment's throughout my life and what built me as a person, the light and the dark moments, I'm going to focus on this to be my story.

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Ideas and Development journal. Semester two Movement.

https://youtu.be/Of9sW1w0Fcw

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Movement Semester Two Statement

My Electives: sculpture, painting and printing

Semester two project Movement I based it on the body and materials the rhythm it gives. It all started with the wire and thread piece from Sculpture and Combine Materials working with that in different ways. Everything was related back to that piece. I let the material take its own responsibility, letting it run against my skin without much interaction. Taking my own photos and working with them through various materials.

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Printing contemporary

I have ironed sheets of lutradur down on to paper to create a bass of texture, in the first one I used some tattoo inking paper compressed it and etched into it, I dapped a printed photo in to create some color. In the others I have used oil pastels, drawing into them and transferring the hand and thread image. The last two I wanted to see how it would react to heat, I lapped the piece onto a fresh sheet and compressed the iron onto it, the results came out impressive, that faded look to the hand and thread Surprisingly became my favourite.

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Alison Watt, Scottish painter

(Artist research)

Phantom was made during the artist's residency at the National Gallery, London in 2007.

It is part of a series which combines Watt's investigation of the use of fabric in art with an intense response to Francisco de Zubarán's Saint Francis in Meditation (1635-9) Watt has fascination with the possibilities of the suggestive power of fabric.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6GuM7g0IzE

Alison Watt was captured by the white knotted cravat that men wore in the romantic period she began fascinated with the arrangement of fabric around the neck, how the fabric had its own independent movement, it shaped and curved around the neck which was separated from the person it clothed. Alison Watt work "phantom" specks in all the ways of relating to mine how I'm letting my materials do its own natural movements without any effect. Alison Watt is definitely one of my favourites.

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Painting

Painting stages.

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PAINTING/S&CM

Oil on canvas and thread

50m in Height and 40m inwidth

This painting started out with me doing printing as I was taking photos to use for prints one photo kept drawing me in,I just had to paint and capture the flow of the material running down my skin, it just looked so light and effortless. By doing this painting I wanted to communicate and show that I'm letting my materials take there own course, the way it falls on my skin without effort,how it feels as it falls on your skin.