This assignment feels very much like working backwards. I’m very much an observer of my environment, the minutiae more so than the mighty. I got completely engrossed in gathering photos of found drawings. My first edit got them down to 93. I hesitated to make a quicker decision to narrow down to 10 as I couldn’t really understand the process I was supposed to be going through.
I printed out 16 photos at a more observable size “to use them as a basis of drawings and image development.”
I unravelled at what using adjectives to describe physical (this is fine) and emotional characteristics means? I had to find some words to use to steer away from being repetitive. In my sketch book I observed the similarities or groupings in the chosen images. Had I pre planned I would probably have taken different images –
Another way to approach this would be to choose emotional/physical words and go in search of images that fulfill the description.
This felt like cheating somehow ( I’m still very much stuck in the rut of taking the course notes too literally.
One by one I selected images that I could choose adjectives for, I made some very quick marks and drawings and found that this process of choosing media and drawing what I saw actually inspired more words to respond to. Ha! Result.
Dappled
Bumpy, encrusted
Meandering
radial, radiating
Flowing
Having identified many words… I intend to respond to a variety rather than all at this time. However I feel that this process can become part of my independent sketch book work as I’m clearly seeing the value in this approach. The process of seeing an interesting shape is a starting point, attaching emotional/descriptive words demands more inquiry, mark making in response to deeper enquiry is the start of a dialogue.
Perhaps I should be less anxious about the course notes. These exercises are a starting point and will inevitably lead each of us on a slightly different journey, there may be no right or wrong. Splendid.
Elements to consider-
1) surface texture
2) pattern and shape
3) colour
Does it answer what is being asked of you?
I have responded to the brief by observing my environment and photographing found drawings. I have observed the emotional/descriptive qualities and responded with mark making.
how can you develop your ideas ?
Continuing to develop skills of forming a dialogue , understanding the narrative that is formed from my personal response, investigating that response with material investigation and experimentation.
What are you trying to achieve in your samples/ art ?
This is very profound!!! – the answer to life itself? Self understanding?probably acceptance?
have you achieved it? if not why?
I’m obviously still searching for what I’m trying to achieve, I’m working towards finding a personal voice. I’m very much in toddlerhood, riding the creative wave looking for answers. My understanding is that achieving a goal is possibly not the goal I’m searching for…. ever learning and looking is the creative process.
how can you revisit the work to improve
Practice. I think that improvement may not be cyclic , more spiralling application of learning to future works, working with a theme is a strong pattern for artists in art movements through history, Monets’ Lilly ponds for example.