I covered a lot of project stuff in my Week 7 reflection, I’ll keep them seperate from now on.
- Name 3 small ideas that came as you’ve been working. How are you finding similarities among disparate ideas? What pattern/s are you identifying?
- What research did these ideas come from? Reading, painting, artwork/artists?I didn’t have a solid idea of what to do until I started painting. Some ideas that came through.Hypnagogia, this is a state of mind between awake and asleep. So far my paintings look like hypnagogia to me. For me, hypnagogia motivates creativity, reflection, and existentialism simultaneously and then combines them. But on the opposite half of hyperactivity and excitement is the temptation of sleep. It is when I am about to sleep that I am most motivated to work and if I sleep then I will wake up unmotivated, sometimes I force myself to make work when I am about to sleep but have creative thoughts or regrets about not having made art that day. Thomas Edison and Salvador Dali are known to have experimented with hypnagogia by holding hard objects while napping so that they are startled awake when they drop their objects, then they would get to work on inventions and art.The frame. I painted frames in both of my paintings, I think this is because of how much I draw comics and thumbnails, but I think that framing can be used to say something here. I don’t know what, but I will continue using some kind of visual frame in upcoming paintings.Doubles. So far both paintings have figures that are parallel to each other. Or one painting they are parallel, in the next painting they are reflecting each other. In the parallel painting, there are parallel blue stripes that close in on the middle white stripe, the white stripe and the right blue stripe are broken apart at the tops by the figure. In the reflection painting, there is a frame within a frame, the outer frame is connected to the smallest frame by the corner.
- How are you experimenting? How are you focusing/narrowing? Any happy (or unhappy) accidents to report?
It feels like I’m experimenting every time I paint because I legitimately don’t know what I’m doing, I still feel almost blind. I think that the least experimental thing about my paintings is the subject matter, but at the same time, I’ve never committed to full images of the kind of the things I’m painting, only doodles.I think I’ve found a binding style and theme for what I’m painting now.Accidents: I used gamsol to make the subtle smokey and stained look of the bedroom painting.Sloppy Gesso on the reflection painting made an interesting under texture. I wished that I put more on the edges so that more color would show through there.I used green on the reflection painting figure to plan out my next move but the green looks nice under the red. It makes a subtle glow and outline too. Originally I was going to paint a more bland and realistic character but I like what I got here and don’t think I want to do any bland or realistic painting at all. Plus, I still want to move away from the depression vibe. - Describe and reflect on the feedback you received on your work in critiques. What feedback did you take forward from week to week?Common shapes, framing, same colors, a sense of dissociation, confusion of what was being depicted, texture of movement (in reflection painting) and wood (bedroom painting).I will definitely take the common shapes and framing forward. I want to leave dissociation and confusion behind.
- Significant accomplishment this week:
The identification of concepts and themes to work with.
2 well in progress paintings.
2 more paintings started. - What’s next:
Work on 3 new small-medium paintings this week. For break, work on the two big paintings. - At the end of the week, sketch out the plan for the upcoming week
Tuesday I will paint the 3 new paintings. Friday I will begin the big paintings.PROGRESS:
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