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The Studio space Completely finished.

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Process and Inquiry: Project Statement

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Finished 3D final piece.

The Finished 3D final piece with the paper train attached to the piece of black pained foamboard.

Close up images of the train and arrows. showing the texture of the paint and hollow train coaches.

The final 3D outcome.

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2D final Artwork. finished.

The context behind this Artwork and how it was made are in the previous post.

Final Collage Close-ups and full photo of the finished collage

below is the of the Gold part of my studio walls where the the collage is hung with a lot of masking tape.

I really like how its tuned out and its worth the amount of time I spent on it, the use of gold foil and paper to surround and emphasise the train route.

I did this since the bright white subway ticket that symbolises Patrick train station at the centre of the top acts as a powerful focal point.

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Making my Final 2D piece

The beginnings of my final 2D piece. and the Artist that inspires my use of collage.

This is the culmination of my 2D process and Inquiry work. The final development from the collage and painting work I started with.

Still keeping my theme of public transportation, the collaged items include train and subway tickets and some edited photocopies of them.

The use of arrows and collaged Scotrail route map reflect the map workshop that started my P&E  work. The route the train takes id represented by the black line with white arrows. And is meant to be the focal point of the composition.

A moving image I made of the first three photos I took of the collage as I began constructing it.

A2 collage using dozens of photocopies of my artwork as well as train and subway tickets, copies of these tickets, photos of paisley Gilmour Street station, maps of Scotrail's central belt routes. and much more mixed in.

The perspective is from a birds eye view, or for me, the view using google maps.

this inspired by the smaller collage I made previously.

My collage in general are inspired by the paintings and mixed media work of David Salle, an American Neo expressionist visual Artist I have known and liked for years for his bright, vibrant happy mixed media collage-like paintings of overlapping imagery from many different source materials.

Towards the end I added gold foil and paper pieces to draw the viewer more towards the train route. and add more gold to my 2D artwork.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/19/arts/design/review-david-salle-paintings-deliver-colliding-culture-at-skarstedt-gallery.html

This photocopy on my desk shows the Final 2D piece still in development. showing the many layers of paper that are now barley visible under all the new layers.

these collage are inspired by him but take a much different look as I keep with mostly monochrome photocopies to save money and use the black Gray and white to represent urban areas of the map. And blue and green to show areas of water and green areas.

the subject matter is again the route of my train to college, but its now more abstract and is represented by white arrows on a black background . Paisley Gilmour Street is represented with a colour reversed copy of a train ticket.

the use of making bigger and bigger collage from copies of my own work is a practice I've been perfecting myself for most of my art practice. from my HNC course to my current BA course I'm doing now.

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Audio based artwork

This audio piece is inspired by my theme of public Transportation. And features an audio recording I took during an unusually fast train journey to Glasgow from Paisley.

Made by adding these sound files with the audio of my train journey that has been cut down with distortion, reverb and some other effects added.

Using just a handful of the 2,000 publicly available Announcement audio recordings ScotRail realised to the public after a 2022 Freedom of information request.

Many DJs and software enthusiasts have made these recordings into songs and remixes. I chose to use my own audio recording as the base for this audio piece.

Audio piece is above. sources of inspiration and research are below.

Above is where I got the audio files from. I picked the first 4 that i liked and never looked though the rest until after I made the piece. I now wished I spent more time looking through them as some of them are better and funnier than the ones I used.

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My studio set up for Assessment.

All process and Inquiry artwork set up on display on the wall, the gold foil wallpaper, and the cleared table.

The layout is that the white side wall has most the collage photocopies and photos from the folded form Worksop, and the Toblerone I made in it sat on top the rolled paper sheet. On Tuesday I came in and printed out the edited photos that inspired the coloured paper collage, rearranged some things and printed the P&E evaluation.

All development work, drawings, paintings, collage and photocopies with the labelled final outcomes.

Above is the ordinance survey map that started the project, while most of the drawings on it are from the stranger workshop I was able to incorporate parts of this imagery into this work. I then developed it by drawing on the red and blue grid lines and a stipe of gold paint, then a Greggs label i never used in my collage why I drew my home in the Stanger workshop.

the rolled up piece of paper is the A2 3D development map with gold foil on the back of it, the map itself must be un-rolled to be seen.

This was a painting I started with the paint i was using to paint the back of the rolled up gold map. then I used gold paint for the rest of the image, it doesn't not add much to my development other than the use of red, blue and gold exclusively together in a 2D form.

This A2 pound sign made from two perfectly shaped foamboard left over from the 3D artwork. I did it at the last minute and is about the steady increase of train and bus fares since I stated using the trains.

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Folded form: paper train as part of my 3D piece

As a finishing touch to make my 3D piece of work more 3D, I made some train carriages like the one i use every day out of paper and pens.

to represent the train I use to get between Glasgow and paisley, I drew the layout of the doors and windows on the side that faces the viewer. and drew a 2D version of the front on each end, they are all hollow inside allowing me to securely tape them to a vertical surface.

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Map drawing

This mixed media drawing has delopoped both in shape, size and concept in the process of its creation.

how it started, meant to be a simple mixed media development inspired by my collage. I had painted abstraction of a map of the route my train to Glasgow (the black line) goes, on a piece of paper with blue and red grids drawn onto it.

Above is the finished map mixed media drawing. Acrylic paint as the starting point of the composition with coloured and white pen and collage of train, subway tickets, Scotrail maps, and some photocopies I didn't use on the 2D piece.

Below is the back slide of the piece of A2 paper the A3 map is glued to. gold foil is attached and painted over with blue and red making a grid on top of it. this map is to be rolled up in the way old fashioned parchment maps are rolled up and stored. making this work a 3D piece in a way.

I left the 3D development rolled up on the desk for the assessment. The map is inside.

While I was painting the gold foil and waiting for it to dry I took a Map I hadn't used and drew the grid on it as well.

The map shows all the Scotrail services in the Central belt of Scotland with Glasgow at its centre.

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These screenshots are my source meterial of the train route I take every day to and from college.

Google maps screenshots on my phone.

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Creating my 3D Resolved Artwork.

For my final 3D piece. I have continued my work with gold foil and relief surfaces to make an abstract 3D piece that incorporates 2D materials wile being made from 3D and printmaking materials.

I used a A2 piece of foamboard as the base, then cut a piece of gold foil from another emergency head blanket and rapped it around the foamboard like canvas being stretched on the frame. I used masking tape to secure it

Above is the gold rapped base against my wall with my other gold banket draped over it as wallpaper.

the use of gold foil walls is inspired by a piece of installation art by John M Armleder. A Visual Artist who has made a massive body of work of Installations, Paintings, sculptures and preformance art.

I first started using gold foil in my artwork because of the workshop and after seeing Al Anatsui's "Scottish Mission book Depot Keta" at the Talbot Rice gallery during the Edinburgh trip.

The base with a piece of painted foamboard representing the train route,

I thought the black line was to thin with the blue and white on top, so a added another piece of black foamboard to make it look visually better and to add more 3D to the composition. this new black piece will be important and helpful later this pieces development.

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Above is the best image i took from the folded forms workshop and a collage from paper and card I made from it.

the collage developed itself to be completely different from the source image. but I like the evolutionary process of it. and it was such less time consuming than painting the image like I originally planned.

the image was taken by shoving my phone camera into the caps of light and darkness inside the Toblerone. these gaps are shown below.

I don't remember how or when i took the above abstract photo, that whole day is a blur.

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Andy Warhol inspired Group of photocopies grouped together on two pieces of a" paper. these bits of paper were what I had to hand when I had the idea to make this piece so I made it before I forgot or lost interest in it.

these copies are made by butting monochrome photocopies into the machine and placing red, yellow and blue card on the scanner.

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More photocopies i have been making to be used in a project that will be posted in the future.

these were made by usijg the positive Negitive feture on the photocopy machine to turn a printout of some train tickets into tickets thar are monochrome and colour reversed.

I then moved this copy up and down as it was being scanned and made these wavy distorted versions.

I've made many copies but I cut most of them up to make a collage before I took any photos, most of them are copies of the original artworks anyway.

the right side copy is made by inserting a monochrome copy into the machine while having two pieces of coloured card in the scanning area, making a monochrome and colour copy.

the left one is two different copies layered on top each other.

below are other photocopies and the original artworks

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Photos of the sheet of acetate laid on top different colours and types of paper.

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Abstract colourful Images from the folded forms workshop.

While playing around with these images. I found the had a striking resemblance to Josef Albers "Homage to the square" series of colourful paintings where he investigates and shows how different colours interact and absorb or repel each other. The Elasticity of colour an how fluid it could be.

Above is the un edited image itself. Below is a High quality image of one of Joself Albers "Homage to the square" artworks.

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This is the work I made in todays workshop. A 2D into 3D workshop where we folded pieces of A4 and A3 paper into 3D forms. Starting with a two airplane workshops, these are my terrible attempts at making paper Aeroplanes. I made three of them and none of them could fly

After that we were aloud to made one or many free standing folded paper sculptures using whatever paper we liked.

I settled on using some of the many coloured paper sheets I had braught with me with the intention on making the paper airplanes. I used these coloured paper sheets to create the first thing that I could think of...

A Toblerone Box

First I made the triangle box shape out of yellow coloured card, then I used the same folding method on sheets of reddish-brown paper and white paper to symbolise the chocolate and caramel, putting these folded papers inside the yellow one, creating a Babushka doll effect.

I then took many close up photos of the gaps in-between the folded papers as they were stuffed inside the yellow Toblerone box shape.

these photos are very abstract and colourful, you would not know what they are or what's in them if I hadn't told you.

After the workshop i went back to the photos and began editing the hue and saturation of the photos.

I really liked the vivid reds and yellows of this image. and the more saturated a colour became the more vivid the hue changes became.