#movement project

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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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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: Sculpture

Here is a video of me unpacking the bag.

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Week 7: Movement Project

The different places of fabric are painted and finally stitched together. It looks a bit like a dress, but it doesn't have a back, if I'd had more time that's what I would have done.

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Movement - Primary Research

As my theme for the movement project involves me looking at how nature overtakes infrastructure over time, I have taken a handful of pictures, as well as used some old ones I have taken before of nature overtaking buildings around Dublin, Limerick, and Kilkenny.

I will be using this research as a reference for my painting elective and will continue to keep these in mind as I continue this project.

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Mono print

Mono print is, doing a drawing on paper as a template.

Have different coloured glass plates painted with watered pigment painted on.

Place your paper onto glass plate and draw over it .

This is for the drawing to pick up the colour from underneath.

You can do a few different drawings and pigment colours.

Place on your fresh clay and rub on with a plastic kidney.

Voila. Images and colours on clay.

This isa great technique for fine detail.

Paper resist is when you make a stencil into newsprint.

Place onto your clay.

Paint into the open area of stencil, working from centre to edge.

Leave it to dry and remove paper.

Beautiful process.

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Movement Project Sketchbook Video

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Movement

Comforting and Calming

Thinking about movement and what things and topics on movement interest me the most.

Making this mind map made me notice that I kept writing down things that I find calming and comforting about movement.

I can see myself enjoying the topics of calmness and comfort during this busy second semester. I will be moving between two campuses and doing double the work for my electives and also my BE-D courses.

Here is how I am planning on approaching these topics :

Movement of my body and the environment around me that calms and comforts me.

What does it feel like? (soft, fresh, safe)

What does it sound like? (calm breathing, touching fabrics, skin on skin)

What does it look like? (repeating movement, patterns, circles, soft folds)

Why does it have the affect?

During this project I will be heavily focusing on my own perspective in these topics and ways of movement which I personally find comforting. I will be looking at myself and my surroundings and researching deeper on why different movements are comforting and calming.

For this topic I have been looking at movement such as :

Fidgeting (hands, feet)

Self soothing movement (eg. caressing, embracing)

Breathing experience

movement around me (eg. wind, bedsheets, soft fabrics)

My disciplines:

Print

Photography

Ceramics

Secondary research on hand movements

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Artist Research

Stuart Davis was an American Modernist painter, best known for his brilliantly colored abstractions of jazz musicians, street scenes, and landscapes. His paintings inspired by jazz music really inspire me as I love how he takes different elements of the music style and translates it into different paintings. Often described as one of America's original art forms, jazz in particular is known for its emphasis on improvisation and disruption of regular rhythms (syncopation). It is evident after looking at his works that Davis takes these elements into account. Two paintings in particular stand out to me the most.

1 : Swing Landscape :

Davis' use of colour and shape gives this piece a clear sense of energy and movement. His abstract work has a real dynamic/chaotic energy which is similar to the jazz feature of improvisation, there is almost a musical rhythm and harmony to the piece which is very intriguing.

2 : Hot Still-Scape for Six Colors - 7th Avenue Style :

Davis explained, "[It] is called Hot [a jazz term] because of its dynamic mood" similar to the energy and improvisation in jazz music. The six colors "are used as the instruments in a musical composition might be, where the tone-color variety results from the simultaneous juxtaposition of different instrument groups." In this painting Davis' use of bright, vibrant colors, expressive lines, and repetitive shapes creates a visual rhythm similar to the improvisation of jazz music.

I like how you can see clear connections between the features of jazz throughout Stuart Davis' works. The jazz influence helps to create a real feeling of movement. After researching and learning more about Davis and his work I'm going to take the style of traditional Irish music [ in particular the features of different tune types for example ornamentation and free rhythm ] into account more as I continue to develop my ideas.

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figure skating set right now please. thanks

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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.

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MOVEMENT - Linoprint

For a "final" piece for lino I had printed orange ink onto wallpaper, and I had the idea to add my other prints to that and then glue the piece together, to mimic a Greek vase.

The wallpaper was slightly textured, so the prints are unclear, however I think it gives it an ancient feel, like despite the images being modern the vessel is still several years old. Like a commentary on how these feelings and stories portrayed on my prints have been around for centuries.

Then I glued the pieces together to form a round shape, like a vase.

This process was very experimental, I didn't know what it would look like in the end or if it would even work, but I'm glad I went out of my comfort zone bas I think it turned out quite well.

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Movement Project: Sculpture

Now that the house is made, I painted the bag with white acrylic paint and then some of the other areas green. I want the bag to look like the one in my animation so the white areas will soon be orange.

I will also be adding LED lights into the bag to make it more aesthetically pleasing

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Week 6: Movement Project

These are the fashion drawings I made on Tuesday, which I drew by looking at the collages I made Monday, and keeping in mind the colours that remind a bit of my travels (pinks and oranges because of the sunrise in Venice mostly)

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Research - Japanese Knotweed

During my research, I was recommended to look into a plant called Japanese Knotweed. Japanese knotweed is a weed that spreads rapidly. In winter the plant dies back to ground level but by early summer the bamboo-like stems emerge from rhizomes deep underground to shoot to over 2.1m (7ft), suppressing all other plant growth. If left untreated, Japanese knotweed will grow rapidly, by up to 10cm a day during the summer months, pushing up through cracks in concrete, cavity walls, and drains

I found this plant really interesting and I believe it ties in perfectly with my project as it is a weed whose movement is rapid and greatly overtakes area over time. I will be keeping this research in mind as I continue my project as I found this piece of research compelling.

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underglazing and more...

Today we were underglazing our bisque fired clay.

Use a glass plate as a palette for your underglaze, mix with water to make a wash, saturate your piece and apply layers of your underglaze to your piece.

If you want a shiny end piece, dip into overglaze for 5 to 6 seconds, making sure to wear gloves and give the bucket of glaze a good stir up to stop the water from settling on top.

Some of my bisque pieces broke and I think it's because when I made them, I had rolled them to different thickness and depth and let them dry at the same rate.

This caused some to expand and come apart.

Huge lesson learned.

I was slip printing a raw piece that I'd made and held it too tight and it broke.

Another lesson learned.