FMP show critique

The peice is a piece of art that stands out and makes you look at it with curiosity, it makes you wonder what is the artists view on freedom with the drawing telling and showing a story about people walking the streets along with buildings from photos and other being totally made up from the artists mind it makes you stop and think along with wonder how it could express freedom through a landscape drawing of a street view. It holds your attention with the detail of the shadows of the people, the view from which the drawing is supposed to show how it all fits together. In my opinion the artist is trying to say that people dont use there freedom enough or dont use it to thier advantage or full potencial to get where they want to be in life, this is shown through the youth in the drawing walking round in black with thier huds up in the shadows and other people in crowds going thier every day lives and not taking thier freedom by the horns and doing something with it. I would say it is a quality piece of art as the artist has spent time drawing in the details and going over the piece with layers of colour to make it stand out and make it look as realistic as possible, along with the peice really being thought about as it is not something you would simbolyse as freedom so it is a really individual piece that shows the artists talent and skill. The artist has used all of the space available, leaving no white background along with it being mixed media with the artist using both water colour paints and water colour pencil to show he can use a range of media along with aranging the peices in a rising order of evolution of the art work and in a sort of brick work form to link in with the urban feel the work is trying to show, the artist has also shown he can use tone with the brightness and darkness, showing where the light would be coming from as well as the peice being vibrant with a range of colour  from black to yellow. In my opinion the show venue was not as inviting as it could have been as the church was cold and not as light as it could have been so that all the peices in the exhibition could have had more light to show all the detail of the artwork. The venue did not really symbolize freedom to me either as the venue was as i said cold and a little gloomy where as most people would view freedom as warm and inviting with warm colours and light to show the real brightness of the peices of artwork and show them at thier best

FMP exhibition

Here is my work at the ehibition at saint mary's church for the end of year show. I have set up my work  in a brick work fashion so it links in with the urban and city scape theme of freedom i have shown through my work as well as showing the evolution of my work rising in formation from my first piece to my final peice at the top . My main piece is shown at the top as i wanted people to notice this peice the most as it was my final piece and was my favourite as well, then i have shown my other pieces lower down but still in plain sight with the viewers of the exhibition so that all my peices can be viewed without any problems.   

Artist creative personal statement

As an artist, what makes me tick would have to be the outdoors, urban life along with everyday life. I like to take whats there and make it my own... Mostly in the form of a drawing or water colour painting, for example my favourite thing to do is take a walk through my home town and look at the buildings, how the sky looks, look at how the people around me are acting and what they're doing and this gives me a wave of ideas. From just a few minutes in the outdoors with my headphones in, blocking out the noise of arguements and trouble my ideas flow and i can take the view of an urban street or a local building and draw it into a new environment of a city scape or urban land scape.As far as media goes i tend to keep it to a minimum of coloured and tonal shading pencils for a bold outline or a block of bright colour, i also use water colour paints in some cases, i like to use water colour for skin tones or backgrounds or to bled colour. With mainly using pencil and water colour paints i do like to experiment with the 3D aspect of the art world like wood work and carving,it is something that calms me down but something i could do for hours on end like making sure the wood has a smooth finish and the product is of a good quality...it is just something i really enjoy as a creative practitioner. Some artists i like to follow and keep up with are mostly illustrators such as tony moore ( the creator of the walking dead comics ) and another would be dan mumford who re creates old movie posters and covers along with dark peices like his grim reaper piece and his "gallows" peice of wolves which really make the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. So yes i love to experiment with drawing, painting and mix in some wood work with gaining inspiration from my own surroundings and making my art personal to me, to tell the story of me as well as how i see the world around me.

Cardboard city evaluation

For our cardboard city project we had to create a time based media piece which was avideo of what we explored and experimented with such as creating a fort and pyramid with the cardboard boxes that we were given as well as creating a cardboard city scene with our cardboard boxes that we had cut up, re- shaped and decorated to look like parts of barnsley or just buildings from our creative minds. The research we undertuck was about artists such as Jonathon Borofsky and Christian Boltanski and how they used time based media in thier work, Boltanski was our main influence for our time based media video as he created a piece called theatre d'ombre which translates to the theatre of shadows which was about the children of the holocaust and they're memories, this was one of our main focuses. With this project our main medias we used were our cameras from our phones as this would give us the images to create our final video but along the way we used a sort of cling film material to create a stain glass window effect, we have used pens to draw a stop motion scene on the windows of the college and we have used the cardboard boxes along with paint and pencils to create our scenes from our cardboard city strip. With our final video i think it was a good final outcome but i think icould have added a little more like a voice over or some better images or a time lapse video but over all the final outcome was a good standard to me. With the project i handled my time pretty well, a few things were late being handed in but over all i handled my time well. With this project i think it was something i wouldn't think about doing it again as i didn't really enjoy it but if i had to do it agian i would do my best to make it a decent piece.

Time based media

Usually time-based media are video, slide, film, audio or computer based. Part of what it means to experience the art is to watch it unfold over time according to the temporal logic of the medium as it is played back.