Meg Campbell 1908015 YR2 Art Blog

Outcome 3: Too Mush(room) Marbling This piece I created using thick layers of metallic acrylic paint and repeatedly swirling it and applying more paint until the process covered the entire canvas. Whilst waiting for this to dry I painted a watercolour fungi woman and stuck her to the painting using the wet paint.  Once the piece was dry I added the art nouveau style border to add a sense of place to the piece.    I purposely left out the usual motif usage that I go for so as to let the colour marbling to shine through. This is also why I left the detailing to the very edges of the art so as to maximise the amount of background that can be seen. This piece was less about message and more about aesthetically pleasing art that I am proud of and enjoy looking at, however it still holds elements of things in my other art works that I also find pleasing, such as the art nouveau and the fungi woman. 

 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...