My experience with screen printing

SCREEN PRINTING

My experience trying out screen printing really amazed me.

I had fun in the process of making my screen print, especially

the part where i had my personal design printed on to sheets of 

different paper. My screen print, inspired by nature, was about 

my peace a at mind. Represented by a picture of a calm day at the
beach under palm trees. A place where i found peace at last, 

representing my mental and phisical journeys of day to day

 struggles. Here are a few pictures of my outcome.

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol was an american artist who was a leading

figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

His works explore the relationship between artistic 

expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that 

flourished by the 1960s .

What I enjoyed about this artist and the way he expresses 

his art, is the way he uses a wide range of colours to make 

up mostly celebrity portraits. The colours and the stenciled 

like style attracts my attention. I enjoy his art very much 

and I believe has a big influence on pop cultural.

This screenprint of famous former world heavy weight 

champion boxer mohammed ali really caught my eye.

Has a mix of realness and cartoonish like in this screen print.

Something i really admire about warhol.

New Zealand painting - Sensing The Surface

                                                               Artist : Rita Angus

Original Painting                                                            My Painting

I had a great time working on this particular piece of art done by rita angus as it 

caught my attention at first when we had to choose who we wanted to paint. Credited as one of the leading figures in twentieth century New Zealand art. She worked primarily in oil and water colour, and is well known for herportraits and landscapes. She was also influenced by the English painter Christopher Perkins' 1931 painting of Mount Taranaki, a response to New Zealand's distinctive clear lightning. 

The reason i chose this painting was because it stood out to me, the emotions on the face of this painting gave me. Very dull look, no expressions at all, it also reminded  me of my grandma. 

If you notice the different changes i made with the character in the painting, I slightly changed her beanie into a bandanna, With oil paint i started my outlines, then painting the inside out, with dark black i gave my painting a hard edge by darkening the edges and outlines.  

Portraiture Painting

Rene Magritte

René François Ghislain Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images that fell under the umbrella of surrealism.  What catchs my attention with his unique style of painting is that we have similar views, I once had a vision of statue heads bleeding, but the difference between us was that i had visions of them in my head , rene had them painted on canvas's for a worldwide audience to share this beuty with.

Leonardo da Vinci

What i like about this particular painting of the famous da vinci is that his art work shows to me personally a long history of olden day styles, which alot still have trouble trying to follow these days. I am always fascinated by his artwork and he will always be a great inspiration to me and many others.

Process of paintings and feedback on experience

Before we started doing our partners portrait, we took photos, three shots to be exact, from these three shots we had to choose the one which best suited us personally to paint on our canvas's using oil paint. I worked with thomas. We then cropped them , brightened and darkened some parts to see more detailed parts of our partners portrait pictures. We had to make a colour chart of our partners flesh tones and follow that while we painted, but with me, I was having so much fun painting, I got carried away with the colour tones, just having fun with it, I mixed up afew colours changing the skin colour tones of thomas's skin. As I was never good at mixing and matching colours, I chose to stick with what I was use to, which was a simple colour up painted on my canvas guided by my lines which i painted on first. Started from painting the eyes inside, i slowly then brought them out by out lining them with  black, which always brings out the best of the inside colours. moving on out to the outside of his face, i used black alot to bring   out the shape and colours of his face.  At the most, it took me about a week and a half to complete my partners portrait. I was glad with the results because of the feed back from thomas, as he laughed and smiled about his portrait. How I felt about this project, I enjoyed much of it, learning new skills with oil painting, learning the mixture of different colours to make specific tones , to make portraits more detailed. I learnt alot from this hands on experience an hope to learn much more through out this year.

Portrait of Thomas

Forgery Research and Experience

Forgery

This week we've been given a personal task, to choose a famous

 artist and a favourite piece of his/her artwork to make a forgery of. I chose 

Rene Magritte and his famous painting off clouds in the sky on a head sculpture. 

First off, we did a little d.i.y project making our own surface or canvas to paint on. I had a little fun playing with the drop saw, but didn't end for long. I started of drawing my guidelines on my hardboard, then linking up  each block with the same grid pattern i had drawn over my photo copy of my forgery picture. Then came the fun part of painting. 

                                                                     

"René Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist best known for his witty and thought-provoking images and his use of simple graphics and everyday objects, giving new meanings to familiar things. Before finding success as an artist, Magritte was designed wallpaper and advertisements. After a poorly received solo show in 1927, he moved to Paris and became firmly lodged in the surrealist movement"
                                                                   Forgery Painting

Using acrylic paint, I was able to finish my forgery.
Then came the making of our canvas's, which to me personally, wasn't exciting at all,
as I am lazy when it comes to making things. 
Why we made these canvas's?
Because we had the opportunity as an individual , to partner up with some one and paint them using only oil paint. This personally was a very hard task as it was my first time using oil paint. I found that it took longer for oil to settle or dry up on my canvas then using acrylic paint. But on the other hand, it was a great way to learn new skills using different kinds of paint.


                                                                 original painting

week 3

This week with emma, we dicussed our different views on propaganda. For me i did not know the meaning of this word until now, i enjoyed the way we, as a class brainstormed it and got the real meaning to it, and how it had its connection with what we were doing in art class. My knowlege of the meaning i learned about this word propaganda, that it was an image that had power to influence people, usually linked to politics.  I also learnt the difference between graphic art and design. When designing my a3 posters, I learned to use the negative space more or less to bring the heading or message of my poster out broad so it could be read from a distance, or stand out and be eye catching

week 2

This week with emma, as an individual task we had to design a poster with a simple directive. I enjoyed this task making posters but did not like the designing process of cutting and cropping out the lettering for my posters. My posters heading was " You dont need drugs to have fun, act retarded". My personal meaning behind this message is that our youth these days turn to alcohol and drugs for comfort or as some of us say " our problem solver".  This can mostly be the starting of   a longtime result of abuse, for not only ourselves, but the loved ones who surround us, that is only if we miss use them for partying and personal satisfaction. We do not need a certain limit of drunkness or high to have fun, or to bring out the happiness inside to feel happy about ourselves.