experimental portrait project evaluation

 for this project I decided to do a self portrait instead of a portrait of one of my peers as I felt I wasn't confident enough to do a portrait of one of my peers. For my artist research I looked at Karl Schmidt and his work appealed to me as it seemed simple but then again the detail was well done in his pieces. another artist I looked at was Henri Matisse, his work appealed to me as he used colours to express the mood of the person in the portrait and painted his pieces with great detail and his own style. the last artist I researched was Ernst Ludwig Kirchner who I chose because his work was in pastel which I liked more than Matisse and Schmidt's and I worked better in pastel. in this project I applied media such as acrylic paint to give colour as well as texture and for shading I used coloured pencil as well as paint. I also used sgraffito to draw a self portrait to add a certain effect of bright colour and vibrant effects. In my opinion my mood board turned out well as the drawing and painting is to the best of my abilities and I have used a range of media over the 2 mood boards such as: sgraffito, acrylic paint, coloured and tonal shading pencils as well as water colour paints. I have work hard on these mood boards adding detail and making these works, pieces to be pleased of. I think my final piece is effective with incorporating coloured pencil to add detail which I think has added some but may need more detail, inks to create an individual background as well as using sgraffito to create half of my face also showing there are 2 sides to me like there is to every one which has worked well and in my opinion is the best part of the piece, I have also used collage to give some parts of this piece a 3D effect so it comes of the page and I have used water colours to some what shade in areas which haven't had enough detail added to them. I do think I should have added a little bit of mono printing into my final piece and maybe some graphite on white emulsion to show I had used all of the medias we could have. I feel my experimental drawing skills have improved due to using and experimenting with the different medias. in my opinion I have managed my time well giving that every thing was handed in on time with a good standard of quality too. I feel I have produced the best mood boards with the time given as I have used all medias and techniques but I do think I could have done more with my final piece by adding more techniques. I think overall the project has been my favourite so far as it has given my chance to try new techniques and new medias and to see which of them I am good at and which I need to work on.

Week 2 of textiles

Starting in textiles

In our first session of textiles we tried all the different techniques such as mark making where we used paint and different types of materials and objects to mark make with such as a fork or a button to make shapes and lines onto paper and other backgrounds. 

Then we did batik where we used melted wax to make outlines on the paper or other material and then painted over it with ink and where the wax had set the ink would not touch it so it would stay white instead of the colour of the ink and we kept doing this, building up layers with different coloured inks.

Peter Clark

Peter Clark is a collage artist who uses materials he can find such as post cards, maps, scraps of tissue and wallpaper and any pieces of scrap materials that he can find or that people have donated to him. He works with beaten up materials, things that have been through life such as used wallpaper and newspaper. His style of work is animals and everyday life but in collage where he uses pieces of material connected to the animal like his British bull dog piece where he used coloured pieces of paper that were connected to Britain such as the red, blue and white for the united kingdom’s flag. Or folding the paper or materials into shapes to give them a 3D effect like in his piece with the dresses where he made the frills of the dress stand out or where he uses buttons as wheels. I like his use of materials that he can find and make it from scraps of paper into an animal with fine detail or bright colour.