Way of seeing and talking pattern
In Task 1 I explored some of London’s street graffiti, parks, music album covers from record shops and other surrounding landscapes and used markers, crayons, watercolours, syringes and photobooths to depict the moments I saw. Through these different mediums and materials I have been able to create different experiences, trying to portray these things partly in an abstract way and partly in a more realistic way. In creating some of my paintings I have a stricter grasp of the shape of things, I use colour as strictly as possible to reproduce the objects themselves and to feel them as I paint. Some of my other paintings are more spontaneous and free, more daring in their use of colour, using Photo Shop to integrate the production, paying less attention to the shapes of things and beginning to feel them more visually in the painting process, the visual presentation is abstract and less formal, and although it seems simple and spontaneous, it gives me a more immediate visual experience and impact.
In Task 2 I took some pictures of British Museum artefacts and enlarged their textures and then selected some of their enlarged textures and reorganised them and made them, I first used brushes such as watercolours and coloured markers to draw their textures and patterns. I used the faulty art style that I’ve been interested in lately, this art style is to use the faults that things form and process them artistically, it can have a distorted and blurred feeling, this flaw has an abstract and alternative beauty instead, these faulty art styles are presented in some of the pioneer hip hop artists such as Playboi Carti, Ken carson, Lancey foux’s rap visual music videos, these faulty I began to experiment with this style of art in my print designs, using a number of mix patterns from the photo shop to create secondary artwork, and in the process of making many of these patterns I was surprised by the effect they had. The reason why I used digital media a lot to recreate the original hand-painted patterns was because I felt that digital media could better reflect my current artistic style while retaining the original hand-painted textures, and a lot of my unexpected inspirations could be shown on this. I was able to be more comfortable in creating my patterns for this assignment, which was very interesting and experimental.
8th November 2022 @ 3:16 pm
I am very happy to write a feedback for your work. I can feel your personal style very strongly by looking at your work. You have a strong abstract thinking in the way you look at things themselves, shapes and even colours, and I can clearly appreciate the emotions you want to express to the viewer through your drawings. Through task 1 I can see what you like, street graffiti records etc., and in my opinion your paintings successfully express the artistic atmosphere of street graffiti. I can see that you have a good grasp of colour, I like your bold and vibrant use of colour in task 1, but also your use of different mediums and materials such as markers, oil pastels, watercolours etc. This shows that you are free to experiment and not limit yourself to a single material. What is more, I like your task 2 the most, and by reading the feedbacks you have written, I get a sense of your inspiration and process. I think it’s cool that you use photoshop to assist in the completion of your work, and the way you manipulate the technology to get something like a mirror image gives me a different visual experience. In addition, you also used a lot of contrasting colours to give your patterns more impact. I think you could continue to explore photoshop in subsequent assignments and use the combination of photoshop and your paintings to better interpret your style. Also, to help you move forward, I think some of your work looks very similar and perhaps you could try more styles or more ways of working rather than limiting yourself to Photoshop. However, I think l your work is very successful and I have learned new ways of making your work and look forward to seeing more of your work in the future.