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Week 4- Room Triptych

(17/4/24)

I was working on this series of three conjoined paintings as I was researching for my artist presentation so I was feeling very inspired by Luc Tuymans' domestic interior scenes filled with allegories I painted my own.

Using Indian ink to achieve the same monochromatic palette and working from photographs I took with my phone I painted three angles of my bedroom, a deeply personal place to me.

When the three were completed I took inspiration from Tuymans' mounting and glued my ink paintings onto white card to frame them. Almost giving the illusion of looking in a window.

I waited till after I had presented on the 19th before I uploaded these.

#lsad #painting #indian ink #ink painting #interior painting #artist inspiration #Luc Tuymans #monochromatic art

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Week 4- Artist Presentation (Luc Tuymans)

Today I presented my PowerPoint on the painter Luc Tuymans.

I found myself really admiring him as a person and artist the more I researched. I've even already seen his influence in my work!

Hope ye like it, I used the wonderful books about Tuymans from the library which I highly recommend!

#lsad #artist research #Luc Tuymans #artist presentation #artist inspiration #art student #painting #oil painting #historical painting

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Week 4- Online Shopping Ink Painting

(16/4/24)

I was out sick on Monday so I missed the final life painting/drawing with Jeff :’(

So today I jumped back into a self-portrait based on a sketch I made last week of my face in an Amazon online checkout.

Finances are a very personal almost unspoken thing. Someones purchases, spending and income can…I guess you can say… paint a picture of them, and many rightfully so don’t want to be defined by this and I thought that was a pretty interesting way to do a self-portrait. Both Literally with my face on there and also with my spending (fictional in this case, I did not buy myself for €20).

#lsad #self portrait #painting #ink painting #ink drawing

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Week 3- Colour Theory

(11/4/24)

After being given an explanation on how colour theory works and how colours affect each other by Sylvia, we made these little rooms with different coloured card to place our subject matter, fruit!

I found this exercise so difficult and I loved it! I learnt so much about mixing colours when I thought I already knew how and learnt how to paint with yellow which I found very difficult due to its almost transparent coverage. Drawing a mini colour wheel in my sketch helped a lot when mixing up my shadows.

Of course my colours did come out a bit dark and not fully accurate but I’m happy with the final result overall.

#lsad #colour theory #still life #acrylic painting #painting #still life painting

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Week 3- Sketchbook Work

(10/4/24)

Heading back to the sketchbook to strengthen my concepts.

I tested out different sizes of my fine-liner pens drawing the same piece of merchandise in repetitive sketches.

Then I moved on to thumbnail sketches of possible paintings I could create related to my self-portrait of not just my physical self but myself through finances and purchases.

#lsad #sketchbook #thumbnail sketches #self-portrait

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Week 3- Warm Vs. Cool Self-Portrait

(9/4/24)

After nearly losing a fight to an easel I got set up with my mirror and started painting. Cool colours for the foreground contrasted with the warm colours for the background.

I'm mostly happy with how the portrait turned out but i struggled with the facial proportions and spent way too much time on the one piece.

After I finished the portrait i moved on to another idea but ran out of time for the day, using the same warm and cool colour palette I started painting my 'Consumerist Cowboy' inspired by a cowboy hat and my poor spending habits.

I see this painting as more of a preliminary sketch. Due to the anatomy being a bit off I'm considering restarting this concept as an ink painting instead.

#lsad #painting #acrylic painting #self-portrait #colour theory

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Week 3 - Life Drawing

(8/4/24)

20 minutes per pose and to keep myself on my toes I changed between various markers types and charcoal sticks (my enemy). Though I will say the metallic marker didn't photograph well with the glitter effect.

These life painting exercises are brilliant learning experiences for myself on how to capture the human form and it's poses.

#lsad #life drawing #painting #life sketching #charcoal

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Artist Research - Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was an American artist who began his artistic career with graffiti in New York City with his friend Al Diaz where the pair went by the name SAMO. Later on in 1980, Basquiat moved on from graffiti art altogether to painting and mixed media pieces but the influence of New York City’s graffiti culture stayed.

Basquiat’s expressionist and abstract style shook up the art scene at the time with his vivid colours, usage of crayons and oil stick to make scribbles and write messages often containing political or highly personal meanings. Blending contemporary painting and his graffiti art experience to make a unique and highly recognisable art style and some of my favourite pieces.

I love the idea of layering messages and doodles on top of a painting, his usage of bold thick lines and would love to try blending abstract into my own works. To create paintings outside of the typical way of paintbrush and acrylic / oil / watercolour paints and look outside my comfort zone.

#lsad #artist research #Jean-Michel Basquiat #art student #abstract art #painting

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Artist Research - Katherine Bernhardt

American artist Katherine Bernhardt is known for her quickly made vivid paintings centred around pop culture and everyday items such as Pokémon, Garfield, cigarettes and junk food. Bernhardt has been featured in over 100 exhibitions across the globe and numerous publications.

Her subject matter, media and large scale are what stand out to me. She has used cartoon characters such as the Pink Panther, as her muse for paintings blending and putting her own twist by adding other deeper themes and meanings, for example; the pandemic. Almost representing herself with these cartoon characters.

Bernhardt often uses spray paint, gaining a unique texture and look, which I would love to try out for myself.

Finally, her large scale quickly made paintings pique my interest as someone who has mostly worked in a smaller scale and this makes me want to try out larger scales and force myself to work quicker and cover more ground.

#lsad #Katherine Bernhardt #artist research #artist inspiration #painting #painter #pop culture #contemporary artist

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Week 2 - Money Self-Portrait

(22/3/24)

I attempted to paint a self-portrait using a mirror and limited colour and found the result too bland and not like me at all. So, Inspired by Jean-Michel Basquiat’s graffiti-like paintings full of doodles and personal meanings I took out a paint pen and began drawing all over my hard work.

I wanted to draw money imagery on the piece, I included my own debit card (fake numbers sorry lads) coins from my wallet and a few transaction history digits thrown on here and there.

The theme for this was finances, and budgeting so I can live but also enjoy a silly treat every now and then to bring myself joy. Retail therapy on a college student budget I suppose.

#lsad #painting #self portrait #acrylic painting #posca markers #Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Week 2 - Keyring Ink Painting

(21/3/24)

With encouragement from Eoin to paint big on the brown paper and the merchandise I already had on my keys and bag I was ready to go!

I first stapled the keyrings I recently purchased at a convention and now carry with me everyday that remind myself and show others my interests and poor spending habits to the wall so I could use them as reference instead of from a photo. Then after sketching and painting with the ink, I slowly added white painting to the jar to create a mid tone and highlight. A last minute decision was to add some paint droplets to imitate the look of graffiti art and I’m glad I did so.

I love how this turned out and how large the piece is! (roughly a metre or so tall and wide) This is a major accomplishment for myself. After the life painting sessions I’ve found myself paying more attention to shadows that I’d have once ignored so I made sure to include them.

The photo of the keyrings is missing one cause I lost it whoops!

#lsad #painting #ink painting #keyring #merchandise #art student #artwork

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Week 2 - Quick ink sketches

(18/3/24)

Sketches I did of myself with Indian ink and a hot pink paint pen for a bit of charm. For the first row I used a mirror to capture myself and the other row I used photos I took. I like working with the mirror as I could see the form and depth of my face with my own eye but the photos allowed me to get poses I couldn’t get when constantly looking to the mirror.

I worry quite a bit about making mistakes so being unable to erase anything and working fast was a beneficial exercise. The sketches may not look like me but this is just practice to help me later on with self-portraits.

#lsad #self portrait #sketch #Indian ink #ink sketches

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Week 1 - Still Life Painting

(15/3/24)

For most of the week I was out sick from college so I wasn’t able to participate in many of the workshops so instead I gathered some of my plushie merchandise and set up a scene for me to paint.

I took inspiration from the life painting workshops, a limited palette, 3 main tones, a number 12 hog hair brush and making sure to detail the shadows and highlights.

One of these teddies is a bootleg, one was imported from Texas and another a gift from a friend, can you tell which is which?

#lsad #painting #still life #still life painting

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Week 1 - Concept Brainstorming + Mind-map

(12/3/24)

I created a small mind-map to help with brainstorming the route I wanted to go down with the brief of self-portraiture. It didn’t take me long to decide I wanted to focus less on me physically but on what makes me… me, such as my interests and passions and my personal belongings.

I’ve always been a collector since I was young, starting with franchises such as Moshi Monsters and Pokémon and even collecting facts and information, and I want to portray this.

Making sure I don’t overlap with my concept for the previous Disrupt project where I focused on how I used toys and teddies and videogames as coping mechanisms, I want to capture the present, what it all means to me, the current impact and collections and finally, the cost of it all, both literally and figuratively.

#lsad #painting #brainstorming #mind map #self portrait

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Week 1- Life Painting

(11/3/24)

We started off this new project with a life painting session. Flipping the page format to landscape and paying more attention to lighting and shadows.

This was a brilliant familiar warm up to painting and I could already see improvement from my last life painting with the proportions and colour mixing. I love working with a big brush as it forces me to adapt and work differently to capture the forms.

#lsad #painting #life painting #portrait

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Movement Project - Compilation of my Work

A short video I made compiling my work together that I made as a fun way to for me to view my hard work.

I chose the song A horse with no name as it was one I listened to quite a lot during this project and felt good to tie it all up with it.

#movement project #lsad #art student #painting #printmaking #animation #stop motion animation #Youtube

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Movement Project- Conclusion

(1/3/24)

Moving from a 12 week project last semester to a shorter and faster paced project meant new challenges and experiences. As this project ends I wanted to talk about my strengths and weaknesses, what I’m proud of and what I would do differently for the Movement Project.

What I’m proud of

I tried out activities new to me such as screenprinting, life painting, modelling my work and animation script writing.

I adapted to obstacles I encounter; changing the sizing of my stencil cuts after I saw my first stencils thin lines affected the printing and photographing my work when I was unable to go to the studio to do so.

I have learnt about artists I’ve never heard of.

I learnt what each elective entails and how much I can do with each one.

My work speed was able to keep up with this project.

Despite being unable to attend college a few times this project, I overcame this and using resources posted to model and research I could work from home.

I’m proud of how much more confident of my concept I was with this project and my own development.

What I’d have done different

I missed a portion of workshops, I’m very sad about this as it was out of my control, but I wish I could have changed this.

I’d have liked to have blended my electives a bit more.

I felt as if no matter how many artists I researched it would not be enough and I could not incorporate as many aspects as I wanted to in my work.

Even though the three electives I chose could be described as 2D or digital I’d have liked to work a bit in 3D, but was worried I’d run out of time.

I’d have time managed a bit better so I could potentially finish my animation video.

In Conclusion

Overall, I feel that I was more focused, and my work was stronger in comparison to the Disrupt Project and I aim to become even stronger in my future projects and elective.

My number one choice for my elective is painting as I love how experimental I can get with it which I saw even more while doing mark-making toolmaking and would love to get even more innovative with painting. I’ve painted over the years and come to love acrylic, oil, gouache, watercolour and I’m getting to know inks.

I feel quite passionate when I think of perusing paint in my future, as much as I loved my other electives this project painting stood out to me the most with what is offered.