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MOVEMENT: Week 4

Artist Reaserch: Edward Twohig

Edward Twohig, an Irish artist, who specialized in drypoint etching influenced me this week for my use of drypoint print and inspiration directly from nature. I like his simple but affective use of etching, and how the effect of movement flows through his artwork. In the third piece his use of leaves surrounding the moonlight is captivating and makes me want to create more drypoint prints in the future.

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movement project- Scale Painting: small scale

Working off of this photo I took last year that fits well within my subject theme of birds.

The connecting thread between my paintings has been the birds themselves, possibly form + shape and also the wires present.

I used a small piece of hessian that had already been painted white. I kept the normal edge of the hessian as I like the rough look to it and the seam adds character. Due to impatience I did this piece really quickly, painting the background the day before, adding the tree.

I problem solved on how to carefully do the wires. I had thought to try use the hessian twine string to print the lines on but I found it easier to simply tape on the painted string. I later glued it down with PVA. I think it looks more interesting like this with a minor 3D element.

Photographed the colour looks less accurate to my photo.

Here it is in comparison to my A3 painting (which is kind of like a medium size if it were included in the scale series as a third painting)

I must get a photo of it compared to the crane painting

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06.02.25

Today, I spent most of my time on life drawing, but I also worked on the project. We had a tutorial on canvas stretching, and I would love to try it if I had more time for painting.

I finished my large painting and hung it in the corridor. Then, I started a new piece, but I'm not sure if I will continue with it, as it looks a bit too similar to my other works.

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Movement Primary Source: Fights

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Yves Klein

Yves Klein's investigations into pure colour, especially blue, have made him famous. In order to create distinctive monochromes that sought to elevate art into the world of pure, atmospheric experience, the artist exclusively used his trademark, patented colour, International Klein Blue. His work was crucial to the growth of mid-century movements like Minimalism and Conceptual art. It also included sculpture and performances in which naked, painted women acted as Klein's "living brushes." Klein was mostly self-taught and the son of two painters.

Syliva suggested a book to me that contained many artists and Yves kleins stood out to me. I have been using his work as a basis of inspiration throughout this whole project. I enjoy he’s way of creating movement through imprints of the human body which are his female body prints. Of course his signature colour makes everything so eye catching but also creates a sense of natural elements such as water or the sky.

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Movement Project - Artist Research, Q Hayashida

Q Hayashida is a Japanese manga creator known for her works such as Dorohedoro and Dai Dark.

In one of her rare interviews, Hayashida reveals that she is a mixed media artist who uses whatever media she ‘feels like in the moment.’

The chaotic, sketchy, raw and colourful look to her art works harmoniously as she depicts her gory and dark but funny stories.

I love her usage of gouache, watercolour, ink and pen, majority of the time mixing these media together in the same piece creating a layered texture reminiscent of grime, reflecting the apocalyptic settings often found in Hayashida’s manga. Matching her colours, line weight and compositions to fit each scene and its tone is highly impressive and a source of inspiration for myself since I first read her work Dorohedoro many months ago.

Her character design is also equally interesting. Dorohedoro’s cast including the protagonist, Kaiman, a man with a lizard head searching for the sorcerer who cursed him, mypersonal favourite being Jonson, a giant realistic cockroach and plenty others, diverse, well-written and designed human characters. I can’t forget the monsters, each with unique personalities highlighted by their designs, brilliantly adding to the horror aspect of her works.

Lastly, my favourite technique Q Hayashida uses to instil discomfort, is her use of repetition and massive spaces, infinite crowds of monsters showing the viewer how powerlessness feels and drawing giant empty settings, such as a department store where the protagonists are stuck in devoid of all life, which perfectly matched the unease the characters she wrote were feeling.

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Live figure drawing/painting

I attended the life painting workshop today. We were limited to a palette of one hue in three different values. This helped me be able to focus on the values i needed to portray the subject.

We were instructed to focus on the values of the wall behind the subject, the floor beneath the subject and the subject separately. This allowed me to be able to focus on how those things looked as an object within themselves despite their context.

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Movement copncept decisicion

I have attended sculpture workshop and we were developing concept idea, and it had helped me to identify what I actually want to do with my project. Which is - animation and stop animation with paint and sculptures.

My plan is to make 30/50 second animation that repressent falling in love and becoming obsessed, stalking and it won't have a happy end.

And I have picked a few verbs that I felt would be fitting for my animation concept (the other page and started thiking how I can incorporate that into animation)

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[6/2/25]

The first week of painting was cut short due to ccs and also a bank holiday giving us only 3 days to do any work. Our tuesday was spent explaining our project ideas to our tutor Sylvia, and the thursday was the live painting. This was something i had enjoyed doing, due to previous experience with charcoal sketches from my plc the year before. I had never used paint for any sort of tonal painting so it was quite confusing and it didnt turn out the best but the workshop was very enjoyable.

After everyone had finished their paintings and they were let dry, we had a half hour of crita with the tutor, looking at everyones works and placing them in areas where the angle and colours complimented each other.

In the end this week of painting may not have been super productive due to lack of studio time but it was definitely enjoyable for the time that we had spent mainly for the live painting.

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MOVEMENT- animation

Storyboards for the 10 sec animation. The general story is of a cat who ends up in the desert one way or another, who gets spotted and chased down by a hawk. I'm taking inspiration from Roadrunner and Trigun mostly with the desert landscape and chase scene, with the faces being inspired by Adventure Time. My main goal is to tell a story through movement and action with no dialogue, which I think I did well.

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movement project: painting

Because of the bank holiday there was no class Monday so I started painting with Sylvia on Tuesday.

To start I did a quick watercolour blocking out the colours first and get a sense of how to paint it.

I also did a tonal sketch too to try out the tones.

I slightly procrastinated starting the acrylic piece after I sketched it out on the card so Friday morning I did an Indian ink tonal painting on brown paper.

Next photo I took was once I had blocked in all the colours as an underpainting. I'd never tried underpainting properly before the live painting so I tried it again here.

I also had painted the clouds in at this point, finishing them off with fingerprinting.

At this point I had begun working on the grass after finishing the sky. I tried to work on the furthest away elements first as your eye is drawn to the last details painted. So I wanted to finish with the closer parts.

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06.02.25

Life Drawing

Today, we worked with a model again, primarily focusing on drawing. We began with 30-second gesture drawings, followed by two minute and seven minute sketches. After a short break, we created two paintings using mixed media. I used ink, acrylics, coloured pencils, and watercolours for the final piece. I really enjoyed the life painting sessions from this week and last week, and I believe the results turned out quite well. Here are the works I like the most, but in total, I created 34 different drawings.

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Movement: Other Works

So during the week I decided to also give other things a small try like painting. I thought it was quite fun to use the stick with a paintbrush at the end and I thought my small painting turned out quite nicely. Honestly better than what I expected.

I decided to also try and design a silly poster. I might try to do something with cyanotype instead of Risoprint as that could look cool.

I also did a small bit of storyboarding and animating of an altercation. It was quite fun to animate but lord the neck pain. Shrimp posture.

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Painting week 2 feb 10th

Today in painting , while speaking with Eoin it helped me decide to move forward in my project on a self portrait point of view of the female body and its movement and how its sexualised.

I created this picture using soft pastels, using 5 colours to add dimension and create realism, I was happy with how this turned out and will continue to use soft pastels in the future.

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Movement Project- Painting

(14/2/24)

Painting of a tin of sardines, done with gouache on card board cut-offs I got from a local frame shop. Afterwards, I cut the painting out with a scalpel and posed it on a cutting board with a knife.

While painting I thought about how being caught, killed and shoved into small tin with the rest of your family, would probably be quite the horror story for sardines… but also the movement of the circle of life, spending your whole life eating smaller fish and plankton just to one day be consumed by a human, who picked you and the rest of your fish buddies up in the local supermarket.

Well thank god I’m no sardine.