Elective - Animal shoes

http://blog.makezine.com/2012/04/04/shoes-that-leave-animal-tracks/
Found online; shoes that leave animal tracks. Very impressive creation from Canadian artist Maskull Lasserre.

Wooden pallets

Like in the mini show, I am going to use found objects and in particular; wooden pallets. This is going to be quite a task because pallets aren't found just anywhere and are extremely heavy. I am going to have to be looking in the right place, with equipment to help me carry it.

I will make sure I am only taking pallets that have either been abandoned or if there is someone to ask then I will of course ask permission.

Final homophone

My final piece is going to be a homophone. With my love for found objects and colour, I couldn't pick two more perfect words than: palette and pallet.

Homophone photographs

More photographs of homophones

2 photographs of homophones

Photographs of homophones. Interesting to see how quickly people can guess the word

Elective - Local animals

I want to look at the animals that are in my region. Everyone knows what the animal looks like, but are they aware of their print.

I am going to pick three animals: deer, dogs and squirrels and then use found objects to display their foot prints. Found objects are now a big part of my studio work, so I think it is important to use them in my elective too.

Collection of homophones

Few examples of homophones:

Boy   Buoy

Brake   Break

Brews   Bruise

Czech  Check   Cheque

Carat   Caret   Carrot   Karat

Cent   Scent  Sent

Flour   Flower

Greece   Grease

I want to play with these words and create work using a bit of light humour

Homophone

Homophone
Oxford Definition

noun

·                     each of two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling (e.g. new and knew).

·                      each of a set of symbols denoting the same sound or group of sounds.

Grammar - Two (or more) words which sound the same but which are written differently. For example: meet/meat/mete right/write/rite

Pink crates

Crates. Painted and left



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Raffle tickets - degree show

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The Pink Box

Delicate. Left for months. Not moved, not noticed.

Look at the shape. Look at the texture. Notice

Look at the shape. Look at the texture. No one looks. I first noticed this piece because of it's awkward balance and damaged structure.

Elective - Ray Mears

"Life has little to offer that is more challenging than finding the trail of a wild animal and following it to the animal itself."

Ray Mears

The animal footprint is a massive part of their identity, it seperates that particular animal from the others. I am interested in the foot print because of their interesting shapes, individuality and their attachment to that particular animal.

Family Portrait

Family Portrait

Animals & Art. Can you identify the animals?

Documenting the unobvious

I make the unobvious, obvious. I find objects that others see daily but don’t notice and paint them a bright, noticeable colour. The object isn’t moved, it is left in its natural habitat. This is in the hope that others will start to take notice of the unobvious. I use bright pink paint as it is stereotypically seen as a pretty colour and being an uncommon colour in the street, it makes the object visible.

Graffiti Art - Adam Neate

Graffiti Art - Nicholas Ganz

ADAM NEATE -  'Adam Neate lives and works in the heart of London’s East End. His project, Left and Found, involved hanging more than 2,00 canvases and cardboard paintings on existing nails. He then left them for passers-by to take away with them. In his gallery project, What’s the Magic Word?’, he exhibited 200 canvases and stickers. The exhibition was free and people could help themselves to the pictures. This is his interpretation of being a ‘free artist’. In more recent projects he has collected pieces of wood and cardboard from the streets. He photographs the object he leaves, then exhibits them on his website.'

None permanent work that is only kept alive through the use of documentation and photographs. I’m using photographs to document part of my work.

Graffiti Art - MAC

Graffiti Art
Street Art from 5 Continents
Nicholas Ganz
Thames & Hudson (2004)

MAC - 'You do it because you want to do it, sometimes taking a lot of risks. It's not about making money and there aren't any rules. It's true freedom of expressions.' (pg73)

Mac paints many objects. I am particularly interested in his work on 'unnoticed' objects: shop signs, bins, a street post etc.

Found objects or graffiti?

While some may argue that when I paint found objects that it is a form of graffiti, I disagree. The objects I use don’t belong to anyone and aren’t technically being damaged. I am simply trying to get the viewer to notice these objects and try to understand that there is beauty, whether obvious or unobvious, in everything we see.

Graffiti Art - Nicholas Ganz

Graffiti Art
Street Art from 5 Continents
Nicholas Ganz
Thames & Hudson (2004)

'The emergence of the internet has also played an interesting role in the evolution of graffiti.' (pg10)

The internet has helped to glamorize the action and work produced through graffiti and turn some pieces into art.

An ongoing piece

This is an ongoing piece of work. It is a collection of pieces of paper that I used as palettes to mix on. They have been pined to a mini notice board and will hopefully continue to grow.

In the spirit of Barnett Newman

As I mentioned in an earlier post, Newman is known for his use of 'zips'. These are strips or blocks of colour. I am going to insert colour blocks onto my pallets. The colours will always be complimentary.

Bamboo sticks

Another photo of my coloured sticks. Demonstrating the random way they are positioned in a gallery space.

Unobvious - Obvious

After a lot of consideration, I decided that I prefer the bamboo sticks without the flowers. Bamboo sticks are in general, unnoticed objects. These now stand out because of being painted in bright colours. They have become a piece of art.

Barnett Newman - 'zips'

Barnett Newman(1905 - 1970)
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/BarnettNewman.html 

'Barnett Newman was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters.

In the 1940s he first worked in a surrealist mode before developing his mature style. This is characterised by areas of color separated by thin vertical lines, or "zips" as Newman called them.'

Untitled - New piece

Untitled 2012

Material flowers on bamboo sticks

Long sticks painted in complimentary colours

Mini exhibition

Couple of photos from the mini exhibiton that took place today. When it came to currating, I displayed my work on the floor in sunlight because of the palette's natural habitat.

Complimentary colours

The colour wheel has always been important in my work. I believe that a piece of art works better if the colours compliment one another. This is apparent in pretty much all my work

Artist - Frank Colclough

http://www.scottishartpaintings.co.uk/artist-frank-colclough.asp

FRANK COLCLOUGH

Blue and orange. Green and red. Yellow and Purple  - Complimentary colours

After seeing this painting, especially the pot of flowers at the back, I got ideas for my next piece.

Sony Advert - Colour Explosion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aljJcgDIYeI

Amazing Sony advert created using cans of paint and explosives. All about colour

http://obviousmag.org/en/archives/2007/12/sony_bravia_a_colour_explosion.html

'With the sound of La Gazza Ladra, by Rossini on the background, we witness the complete overhaul of a block of sombre buildings in an impressive spectacle of vibrant colours. The metamorphosis is lead by thousands of gallons of paint, that literally explode like fireworks. No, it isn't an artistic performance, it's just the commercial for Sony Bravia's new television screen.

Actually the human and technical resources used in this mega-project were impressive: 70 000 litres (18 500 US gallons) of paint, more than 7 000 bombs of assorted kinds (mortars included), 358 metres (1175 feet) of solder, 330 metres (1080 feet) of steel tubes and 57 km of copper strings.'