Okay so I know the first image of what I started with is kind of funny and very bland but I based it off a building from Italy since that is what my very original huts were inspired from. I also opted for more of a recognizable building rectangle as opposed to my fluid lines because I really wanted to build craziness on top of this very very basic outline.
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Okay so I did a lot of stuff and to be honest I'm not sure if I like it or not? I used acrylic paint to highlight the curves of the shape where I had originally put colored pencil down to make it more prominent and then outlined the shapes (where the paint pen was) in white acrylic paint. I really wish the paint pens had worked out better because it was really hard to get as thin of a line that I wanted evenly. It ended up a lot looser and more like a painting than I had hoped, but I', not mad at it. I feel like presented side by side with my sculptures it would look pretty cool. I also added the plastic sheet on top to kind of finish it off, and I like how it looks.
Okay so I tried to outline the shapes in paint pen but for some reason the paint isn't showing up as brightly as I wanted and how it was showing up on my practice paper. I'm not sure if I want to outline on top of the plastic sheet though, because I feel like it would be too prominent and then the lines would look crazy thick- I also don't want to outline the shapes too much because I like the under layers better than the outline. I also added colored pencil because I thought it might make the piece more interesting but I feel like you can't even see it from far away. I didn't want to originally but I think I'm going to have to add some acrylic paint- I think it's the only thing that will really stand out on the black paper.
Okay so today I was trying to reformat my website and stuff and I was looking over my artists statement and I kinda realized that I've really strayed from the original content I was trying to convey as I have begun to dabble in this architectural realm. I still want my work to have that "familiar but unfamiliar" message and thought, but I think I have been moving more into "unfamiliar" territory than intended. It's cool and I don't dislike my in class project, but I think I want to take a step backwards. I think instead of doing a sculpture with not a lot of meaning I'm going to kind of immitate Franz Cline, like how he abstracted his chairs as subjects by zooming in really close and then using both black and white for the negative and positive space. I think That'll be a fun thing to explore- start with the familiar and then slowly cloak it in the unfamiliar. Also, to be honest, I'm just really not in the mood to sculpt.
Okay so I decided that instead of directly overlapping the different views I would spread them out kinda instead, which I feel like makes it look a lot better and I think it'll be a lot less messy this way. I also like the idea that its 3 views because it feels like it kind of aligns with my original set of 3 sculptures (these sketches are from a single figure of those three from several angles though, not one from each of the 3). I'm realizing that the annoying thing about this piece is going to be that I'm going to want to stop at every stage because I love the look of unfinished architecture like work like this. I'm not sure if I want to jump straight into the paint pen, or if I want to do the paint pen on top of the plastic sheet. I feel like it'll be too intense if I do it on top though, and it'll overshadow the undersketch that I like.
For my at home project this quarter I think I'm going to make a bigger version of my favorite hut sculpture. I think that will be a pretty nice portfolio piece to have and presentation wise it would look really cool, but I am worried I'm being kind of redundant with my work. I've sketched out some general shape ideas for the piece but they all seem to blend back into that first original smaller sculpture I did. I'm not sure if I should keep fighting this tendency to go back to my first original piece, or if I should keep trying to like reassemble the general shapes I've been working with. That's what I tried to do with the relief sculpture I did over the summer but I feel like that was kind of a bust. I'm almost scared to go as big as I want with this piece (I was thinking toddler sized) because even though it'll be big and cool it'll be boring.
Okay so I talked to Coach and decided to go in a very different direction than what I was originally thinking about. We looked at some pieces by Phyllida Barlow who makes sculptures but also draws them, and the idea of drawing something like one of my sculptures is growing on me. Coach liked a sketch I did for my maybe home project so I'm going to mess around with that, I did some sketches of what several side views could look like overlapped, and I kinda like it but I kinda don't. Since I'm going in a new direction I gotta spend some more time figuring out this composition. I want this piece to clean, but my sketches are the opposite of clean so I'm not sure what's going to happen.
I didn’t post a progress post last week because to be honest I mostly just experimented with the new materials I got (the durlar and then paint pens) and looked for reference photos. This week I worked a lot more on trying to compile a composition I like. It seems like it should be the easiest part, but I really want to be precise with the composition because I don’t think actually drawing out the forms and lining them with the paint pens will be difficult (I say that now). I looked through my travel photos as I always do before an art project and once again looked at architecture I saw in Italy- I really just can’t leave that place behind it seems like so much of my work is based on buildings I saw there. But anyways, I’ve been isolating buildings from several pictures and drawing them in what I call the “bare bones style” to get a better handle on the types of buildings I want to draw and to make a collection of shapes that I can then assemble together like a puzzle to create something with some kind of composition. I tried just trying to simplify a single reference photo, but I didn’t think it had enough dimension to it.
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