Mini Degree Show

17th Oct

Mini Degree Show

This is my final  piece from our introduction project of the mini degree. Whereby we had set tasks over four weeks that resembled each year of the course. For example, in the first week we experienced what we will be doing for the rest of the forthcoming year. We experienced life drawing and claimed our studio spaces, with this we had to create art that would correspond with the space we chose. As my desk was positioned in front of one of the big windows out to the rooftop, I decided this was a focus point to base my piece off of. The main viewpoint is the Gothic cathedral and seeing as I've just moved to Liverpool I thought it would be a great idea to show this through the symbol of the Liver Bird. My plan was to have a painted version of the mythical creature on a transparent sheet and in perspective for it to be perched on the cathedral. The overall outcome was successful and truly showed my style of art. The next week we had to experiment more out our comfort zone, so in my case that was to do abstract art. The topic being failure, I took it in art terms of not being allowed to colour outside the lines as a child. To represent this in a simplistic way I painted a black line down the middle and on one side it was all dipping paint kept within the section, until the middle where it spread out to show "failure". I was quite proud of this as it wasn't my area of art, but even though I believed it to be abstract, I was told that it was still controlled by me actually painting the drips perfectly, which I then realised that I do tend to want my work to not be messy. These first few weeks of insight into the course taught me more about my style and how it was quite different to others on the course. In the final year/week we first had a clairvoyant tell us our cards and tried giving us a subject or advice on what to do over the next week based off what she believed are style was. My results came out to be that I plan my works meaning, she told me that instead I should try experimenting more by throwing some paint down and then deciding, from what I can see, what the subject should be. So I went further by also using a medium that I haven't previously seen. By hovering normal wax crayons over a blank canvas and heating them up with a hairdryer they spread and mixing all over the area. I did however choose a colour scheme so that it wouldn't become a mess of colour. The dark reds and blues all came together with highlights of white to resemble a galaxy, in my opinion. So with this now being the set subject I was going to paint a steam punk ship on the waves of the crayon. But after showing my lecturer, he suggested that it was already finished and then looking at it with fresh eyes, it was. Unusual to my style, but I was still proud of it.