Meg Campbell 1908015 YR2 Art Blog

 Outcome 2: Shrouded in colour This piece was time consuming in the fact that I had to spend time slowly dripping the acrylic paint down the canvas in layers, over the top of an oil painted skull. This mimicked the earlier marbling experiments but in a much larger scale. Over the top of this once I was satisfied with the texture and level of marbling, I painted my motifs on with black paint.  I decided that there would only be one eye due to the fact that there was no figure to the piece, only a skull which was subject to being viewed. This piece is more about the death of life, or the end of a cycle rather than the beginning. I wanted to make that clear with more fungi growing from the skull area as well as the dripping paint over the top of elements to further the idea of covered decay.  

 Outcome 1: The birth of the feminine This was a final piece I created on an A1 sheet of plywood. I covered the background with scraps of paper I found laying around in storage in my house to create texture. I stuck this down using PVA. Over the top of this I used a sponge to spread gold and copper paint over the top.  On separate watercolour paper I painted one of my fungi women and cut her out, before using more acrylic paint to stick her in place and create an almost explosion effect around her.  On further separate sheets of paper I used oil pastels and acrylic paint to create skulls which were also cut out and stuck to the bored using paint.  After waiting for this to dry, I used metallic paints to drip down the canvas as well as painting eyes and mouths on the bored in keeping with my motif usage.  Around the edge I used an art nouveau border to create definition and show the piece as finite and boxed in. All of these elements brought together create a whi...

Prints and Print making Motif follows a lot of my work and for this I thought that experimenting with printing would perhaps make for interesting concepts. Prints allow you to make multiples of the exact same thing without too much by my of discrepancy between each print.  For this I also wanted to start working in more of the art nouveau elements that I found so aesthetically appeasing so as to create prints that would look good wither on their own or as a group.  My first print was one of my fungi women which I carved into lino and printed in red ink - the colour of the fungi cap that adorns her head. I wanted this to be more messy looking and whimsical, like she appeared out of the ink blob itself, so I decided to be lose with how I applied the paint to the lino block she was carved into, creating this effect; For the next set of prints I wanted something more professional to look at, so I worked out a simple, yet elegant design on paper before hand to transfer onto my lino...

Photography collage Photography is a large part of how I think about creating my work, so it seemed logical to use this as a base for collaging elements together to create larger works. For this, I once again took a large sheet of black paper and painted on the background in large swirling motions, choosing to keep some of the black visible through the acrylic paint. I then printed out the photographs and stuck them all lined up on a white sheet of paper and drew designs over the top of them in marker and POSCA pens. After this I cut out each individual photograph once again and arranged them on the background paper which was now dry. I used hot glue to stick them down so they were as flat to the paper as I could manage.  I really enjoyed creating this work as it combined both my love of photography and the collage effect that I have been experimenting with. I liked the freedom of colour I allowed myself as well as the added detail photography allowed. My only criticism to myself i...

 Black Paper Experiments: For the following I used a blank sheet of thin black card and allotted myself certain implements to experiment with over various sheets. These included: Other paper types Glue (PVA) Hot glue (from glue gun) Acrylic paints POSCA pens Grey Scaled marker pens Pencils (2B, 4B, 6B and 8B) Sponges Paint Brushes The following are the outcomes of these experiments. For this, I used acrylic paint and a sponge to apply thick layers of metallic and white acrylic paint to form a base of swirling and random patterns to create thick texture and interesting colour mixes. On top of this I cut a circle out of a separate sheet of black paper and drew my usual motifs (eyes, mouths and fungi as well as skulls) onto this in a circular, overlapping motion. On a separate sheet of white paper I drew a ball python with grey scale marker pens to create definition.  To put all these elements together I used more of the metallic paint as well as PVA glue. This created an interes...

 Sketch experiments: Having decided on using the fungi women as a focal point for my art, I needed to work out a method for which to best showcase them as well as create a motif to cover them as this is something I find aesthetically pleasing. I wanted to use disembodied facial features similar to how both Villalba and Bacon do to create an uncanny and whimsical feel to the art. The following are experiments to see how best to create these works and the best materials to do so to create texture and movement. For this I allowed myself to use pens and pencils to sketch as well as figure out the best scale for this work to take place on. I also tried out different shapes of paper, seeing is circles created interesting viewing windows for my figures to occupy.