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everything in this video just,,,,radiates harry,, like it’s so him and like it just radiates harry styles energy

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I’ve learnt that there are really no rules to painting and everyone has there own individual tastes and ideas. I am going to move forward and experiment with more techniques and styles.

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Final selection of paintings

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Evaluation of what I learnt

I learnt a number of different things in this class but the top things I enjoyed learning about would have to be colour relations, experimenting on different materials with paint and artist of the week.

Colour relations

Before I didn't think of colour relations as much but now where ever I go I am always finding myself picking them out on posters, advertising, nature and clothing. 

Experimenting on different materials 

This is had to be my favourite thing that I did all lockdown. I was often found by my bubble awake in the middle of the night painting with coffee, soaking cardboard in watered down paint and ripping up book pages.

Artist of the week 

I really enjoyed looking at different artist each week and seeing which art I preferred over others. I got to find out about a few artist who I might of never known about who I now love. Such as Marlene Dumas, I find her art so moving and emotional.

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Paintings of the week part 3

Week 8 

Charline von Heyl

Charline von Heyl was born 1960 she is a German abstract painter. She also works with drawing, printmaking, and collage. She moved to the United States in the 1990s, and is focused in New York and Texas.

I think she is one of my favourite artist colour focused wise, her art work is very vibrant but not over powering.

Anoushka Akel

week 9

Anoushka Akel is an New Zealand artist, who commonly works with oil paint and pastel, using techniques such as layering, smudging, dry brushing and rubbing with cloth and sandpaper to reduce paint to traces.

I like her techniques but overall I don't really enjoy her art. I have to say this was my least likely artist to look at again in the future.

Melinda Harper

week 10

Melinda Harper was born 1965, she is a Melbourne based abstract artist. She works with a variety of media including drawing, collage, photography, screen printing and painted objects. Her work mainly uses colours, stripes and geometrical designs.

I ended up printing off some of her art and putting it on my walls in my flat because something about her art makes me happy and I cannot place what it is. I find with all the colours she uses should be over powering but they all fit really well, she has a good sense of what looks pleasing to the human eye.

Frank Stella

week 11

Frank Stella was born May 12, 1936, he is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker. He is most known for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. 

Hemi McGregor

week 12

Hemi Macgregor is a Māori visual artist who works across sculpture, painting, installation, video and public art. 

I found out he is a teacher at Massey which is really cool! I couldn't find what materials he used for the artworks above but they give off an almost digital look to them.

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Pecha Kucha.

Terry Winters

Terry Winters was born 1949, Brooklyn, NY he is an American painter and printmaker. He began exhibiting in New York in 1977 after his graduation from Pratt Institute in 1971. His early paintings give a minimalism look which is apparently influenced by Brice Marden, his work slowly changed to more organic shapes and abstracted images of botanical elements and references to scientific processes. His work has become more complex over time but his process has remained the same, he collects images and assembled collages of references to prepare ideas for his paintings. 

Dumb Compass, 1985

I spent a lot of time looking at this painting, I can pick out faces in the background and I wonder if he knew that when he was making this piece of art. He almost points out his colour plate with the circles on the top of the painting which is an very interesting topic.

Good Government, 1984

This is one of his most known art pieces, it shows a more nature focused artwork with the meaning open to the viewer. it personally reminds me of rocks and elements that are in museums.

Locas, 1993

is currently selling for $2,800

Theorem, 1992

I couldn't find what materials he used to create this piece of art but it almost gives off the look that he used coloured pencils. The white space is really effective.

Linking Graphics, 2000

Cell, 2004

I noticed most of his art in the early 2000′s didn't use much colour, mainly focusing on black in his art, compared to his earlier work were he used a lot of green and brown.

Composite, 2005

This happens to my favourite piece of all his art, I really enjoy the pops of red and spacing he used. It really shows emotion behind the artwork and leaves it open for discussion. 

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part 3 piece of art once I made some more changes 

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Part 3 piece of art 

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some of my collages 

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Pictorial idea

My pictorial idea focuses on the relationship between cool colours and more earthy toned colours and how they compilment each other. I also will be using book pages and cardboard as different materials to incorpearate  in my pieces of art. As I really enjoyed using them in my collages. Im going to focus on the human body and elements of nature to support my idea of how fragile we as humans really are. Im hoping to use space to tell a story in my art work, as they will start very empty focusing on one item in each art work to over crowed in the last piece of art. 

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My personal favourite piece of art from part 2, I used both acrylic paint and oil paints on cardboard 

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one of my favourite pieces of art I've done while testing out different techniques (still not finished) 

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some painting experiments I did and wasn't happy with

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Experiment notes

Painting with coffee 

I dissolved some instant coffee in hot water. I found out if I changed the coffee to water ratio I could achieve a lighter or richer colour. 

Using coffee to paint on cardboard didn't really go well and I found out I prefer to use coffee on paper or a canvas 

Oil paints

Getting started with oil painting was fairly easy, but the drying time is much longer which I found a little annoying. I found out that I could use water to thin the oil paint. overall I enjoyed using oil paints but I prefer acrylic paint.

Painting on cardboard

Cardboard was difficult for some types of paint to stick to it. I found out the best paint to use on cardboard was acrylic but i also needed to paint several layers so you can't see through them. Coffee was too similar in colour to use and watercolour soaked in too much to the cardboard. Oil paint worked well on the cardboard.

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Artist of the week, part 2

Marlene Dumas

Week 7

Marlene Dumas is an South African artist and painter.  instead of working from life, she uses photographs of her subjects in order to gain distance and paint with an ‘amoral’ brush. She likes to use a wet-on-wet technique, that combines thin layers of paint with thick ones. Her materials of choice is oil on canvas and ink on paper.

Personally she is my favourite artist I've studied so far, I really love the texture on her art

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Artists of the week

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Polly Apfelbaum 

week 1

Polly Apfelbaum is an American contemporary fine artists, she has both lived  and worked in New York City since 1978. She has received a few awards for art in her life time, one inculding a BFA which she received in 1978. she is best is best known for what she often calls her ‘fallen paintings’ These large installations consist of hundreds of hand-cut and hand-dyed pieces of velvet fabric that are arranged on the floor. These installations are a mix between painting and sculpture in an ambiguous space between the two genres.

I enjoy how she uses the space around and incorporates it into her art work

Nicola Farquhar

week 2

Nicola Farquhar is a New Zealand artist.  Nicola Farquhar works mainly with oils on linen. Her paintings often use rich and vibrant colours and she does her own take on traditional portraits through experiments with colour and space. most of her artwork contains of human and botanical elements. Women are usually the subjects of her paintings but they are not based on or named after real people.

Im not the biggest fan of her artwork but I like the use of colours

Lee Krasner

week 3

Lenore "Lee" Krasner was an American artist, who is identified as an abstract expressionist due to her abstract, gestural, and expressive works in painting, collage painting, charcoal drawing, and occasionally mosaics. She would often cut apart her own drawings and paintings to create her collage paintings.

I wouldn't mind testing out a background inspired by her art work

Rose Nolan

week 4

Rose Nolan  is an Australian visual artist based in Melbourne. She makes art of material forms such as books, small sculptures, photographs, posters, paintings, banners, multiples and large scale installations. She mainly working with a colour palette of red and white. She uses raw and inexpensive materials, such as hessian and cardboard.

her art really inspired me to try out different materials

Max Bill

week 5

Max Bill was a Swiss architect, artist, painter, typeface designer, industrial designer and graphic designer.  He wanted to create forms which visually represent the New Physics of the early 20th century. 

I couldn't find what materials he worked with but I thoroughly enjoy the colours and shapes he used in most of his art

Blinky Palermo

week 6

Blinky Palermo was a German abstract painter. He was best known for his spare monochromatic canvases and fabric paintings made from coloured material cut, stitched and stretched over a frame. He painted on many materials some being aluminum, steel, wood, paper and Formica, often making lines out of tape instead of paint.

I noticed he mainly used the primly colours in most of his art