Week 5-Fine Art

In this week we started our first day by learning about metaphors in art work. Charles showed us an image, which i have inserted above and we had to try and figure out the metaphor. The metaphor is all about making sure a vehicle has the right tyres to get it to its correct power and achieve its best. We then had to create our own image using a metaphor onto a postcard size piece of card. The metaphors we used were from a song of our choice. We used collage to create our images and cut the shapes we needed out of magazines. The metaphor i chose was 'my heart is out at sea'.

On the second and third day we had Greg and the first thing he taught us was that 'fine art is useless' and that if you can do something with it, it isnt fine art. For example, a chair on its side is fine art because you can no longer sit on it. He then gave us a set of rules to follow over the 2 days that we had to follow in our work.
Those rules were:

• Explore colour and texture using a variety of materials
• Fill shapes internally and externally
• Try to use colour and texture to differentiate between sections
• Draw and paint around objects
• Do not try to invent anything, just use the shapes that are there.
• Try out as many different techniques as possible
• Overlay images
• Use all the paper
• Keep moving.

We then spent the next 2 days actually creating some fine art. For the first piece i wasnt really sure what to do so i just drew around a few objects and made a mess really, so i dont really like the first one i created.

For my second piece i worked mainly with the projector, so i got lots of big images on my paper rather than just small ones that i could draw around. I drew around the images in a black crayon, the lines stood out well but you couldnt see them from far away, which i liked. When i had finished drawing around the objects i decided to colour in just a few sections to make pieces stand out. I liked this image because you can tell that the coloured object is a toy skeletons ribs but you cant tell what the rest of the objects i drew are, so you have to look at it more than once.

My third piece was definitely my favourite. I took inspiration from a video that Greg showed us, where the artists paints an image then uses a squegee to drag the paint across the canvas. I didnt draw an image first but just squirted some paint on the paper. I then dragged it up and down the page to blend it together. I just used primary colours because i thought this would give it a brighter look. I then projected the animal skull onto it and drew around it in crayon. I then painted over the lines in emulsion and dragged this down the page a little as well, to make it blend in with the background but also stand out at the same time.

Once i got into it i enjoyed the fine art week and the final piece i created is definitely my favourite. I did find it a little difficult to get stuck in at first and as i have already mentioned, my first piece of work suffered a little because of this but once i had figured out how to place the objects on the page my work got a lot better.