Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Portfolio Statement Draft


I want to try something new. What I mean is that I would like to get out of my comfort zone. Most of my life photography has been my medium of choice and in the past year or so, I have begun exploring the many possibilities of painting. Now I would like to push myself further and bring a more three dimensional element into my work. I was inspired to try this new 3D aspect after coming across the work of Eva Hesse. Some of her pieces use string and other types of long materials to create various effects such as long pieces of material hanging off the canvas and falling where they might giving the piece a free, unrestrained effect, and two small canvases connected together with many pieces of string creating a web-like effect. This lead me to choose beaded necklaces as my material because they can be used to create create similar effects to Eva Hesse's work, and yet offered up many new unique possibilities, such as the ability to use the material to build on top of itself in a more sculptural manner, offering up endless possibilities.
My hopes for this final project is to make a series of mini experiments or “studies” of the different ways I can used this material and combine my research into one final piece. This project will be a little less structured and planned than my previous projects where and will hopefully be the inspiration that I need to push myself into trying out a whole new medium and a new way of thinking, bringing me out of my comfort zone.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Final piece


This piece is different then things that I have done in the past, not only because of the materials used but also the fact that I have not limited my self to just the canvas but extends the material far past.

Original sketch and ideas


My original idea was to create a flower design using found materials and things that i have collected, but the more stuff i added to my piece the more crowded it became and in the end I ended up using a minimal amount of materials for my piece to create a more abstracted design that was inspired by the work of Eva Hesse

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Eva Hesse



As I have been look at different artist who do multimedia 3d paintings I came across Eva Hesse, who has some pretty cool pieces.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Working on New Painting

For this next project my goal is to create a painting with 3d elements. So over the past week I have been working on my sketches for different possible designs, but the design keeps changing as I collect more and more items to add to it. Today I went to Ac Moore  and walked around to see if I could find some more ideas and ended up adding wooden shapes and plastic easter eggs to my list of supplies.

Monday, March 14, 2011

Process:

The majority of my process takes place in my bed room with all my stuff spread out everywhere. I started off by making some notes on all of my ideas for this painting. Pretty much anything that comes into my head I write down so that I can later go through all of the ideas and sort through which ones I want to keep and use and which ideas wont work for this painting. Next I make a bunch of sketches of different compositions, until I find a composition that I'm happy with. Then I make two to four detailed sketches of this composition, changing and tweaking it until I am satisfied with my final sketch. At this point I was ready to transfer the final sketch onto my piece of canvas. This part takes me awhile because I wont start the actual painting until the design is drawn perfectly, down to the smallest details. I start painting with a medium brush and paint the large areas, later going in with a smaller brush to get in the tight spaces and paint the small details. My final step for this particular painting is to outline everything with a black ink marker to create crisp and clean edges.