Week #5

This week we experimented with gif's. The program I used could upload up to 50 images and I used charcoal on cartridge paper. 

Storyboard for flipbook

My plan for my narrative project was to create it around my daily medication routine. I was inspired by the date paintings by On Kawara to explore my daily routine/rituals. I seem to be exploring my personal experiences through my work at the moment and it is coming out in interesting ways. 

I know how time consuming an animation project can be so I decided to try making a flip book (which I have never done before). My original plan was to make it a bit repetitive and show all the times that I have alarms for during the day. Now that I have started creating it, I fear that I will run out of pages to draw on. I think I will just keep drawing and once I get further into it we will just see what happens. 

Text Project Progress #4

I decided I needed some more collage material so I went and photocopied a different symptoms sheet. Then I scanned them back in and collaged them together.

This is the second collage that I will be printing off and drawing over the top of. 

This is the third, and final, collage that I will be working with too. 

The Flippist

The Flippist is an amazing flip book creator that creates personalised flip books for people. His work is fantastic and he is constantly creating new books. They are lovingly hand drawn and I think they are quite beautiful. 

Serene Teh

Serene Teh is an illustrator and graphic designer that experiments over different mediums. In this Parkour Flipbook Animation Teh uses technical pen, frame by frame. This version of a flip book is so unique and interesting. It is totally different to the traditional flip books that we are used to. I really like the interactive aspect of this work.

"The brief was to create a visual reaction inspired by a chosen sub-culture, in this case, Parkour... The intention of this animation is to capture the movement and physical beauty of the traceur while traversing through the environment. This viral is aimed to create an awareness for parkour as an artform, rather than a sport."
-Serene Teh, 2010. 

Serene Teh, Parkour Flipbook Animation, 2010.

Mou Hitotsu no Kenkyujo

Flip Book Inspiration

These flip books are made in Japan by Mou Hitotsu no Kenkyujo, a Japanese animator. He uses negative space and secret compartments that are gradually revealed as the viewer flips through them. The drawings are beautiful and the books are gorgeous. I really love the art style. 

Text Project Progress #3

Update on my text project. I used charcoal, willow charcoal, white pastel, a stanley knife and erasers. I am still undecided about whether I cut the borders off each of the individual drawings. 

Text Project Progress #2

Text Project Progress.

Update on my first folio piece. I scanned my photocopies into Photoshop, collaged them together and then divided it into 9 pieces. I printed them out and plan to draw over the top of them, or cut into them with a stanley knife. I liked the process of using a stanley knife on the postcards and going over them with charcoal. This particular series is tinged with purple, I think I will try to use a different colour scheme for each series.

Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman is an American artist that works over a range of mediums including sculpture, photography, neon, video and drawing. Nauman has a love of wordplay and works with satirical and absurdist tones. Nauman's work is shaped by his ethics and interests in politics and he views his work as playful and creative, rather than work to be taken seriously. I really like his neon text works and the specific words he chooses to use. Because of Nauman's choice in materials the works are quite powerful and eye catching. I tend to use quite muted colours or a monochromatic colour scheme within my own work, so it's interesting being drawn to colour within other works. 

Bruce Nauman, One Hundred Live and Die, 1984.

Bruce Nauman, Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain, 1983.

Bruce Nauman, Human/Need/Desire, 1983.

Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner is an American artist that was a founding figure of the Conceptual Art movement of the 1960s. The following works are from the installation Mel Bochner: Strong Language. The choice of words in these works came from Bochner's interests in philosophy, pop culture and his humour. He uses paint on canvas/velvet, drawing and printmaking within his work. The words Bochner uses are quite mundane and informal. He also uses repetition throughout his work, which makes the work quite humorous.

Personally I really like his word choices and the repetition of these words. He also uses bold colours and the textures of the materials come out really well. I'm really drawn to Bochner's choice in words.

Mel Bochner, Blah, Blah, Blah, 2008. 

Mel Bochner, Going out of business, 2012. 

Mel Bochner, Voiceover, 2006-2012.

Installation view of Mel Bochner: Strong Language at the Jewish Museum, New York, 2014.

Time Of Others

This week I went to GOMA and saw the new exhibition Time Of Others. This exhibition centres around the theme of time. In class this week (Week #4) we discussed On Kawara and his date paintings, and some of them happened to be featured in this exhibition. On Kawara's ritualistic process is very interesting to me and I like his approach to his art and to painting. 

Kawara began making the paintings on January 4, 1966, and continued making them every day until his death in 2014. The works were produced according to a strict set of parameters. Each was painted during the course of a single day (any work not completed in that time was destroyed), and each was rendered in one of eight possible sizes and three possible colors: red, blue, or grey.

Each painting could take anywhere from four to seven hours to complete, depending on its size. As curator Jeffrey Weiss explains , the process allowed Kawara to “focus and reflect on the act of painting.” Weiss points out that Kawara’s painstaking and methodical practice also represented a departure from the artistic norm of the 1960s, when painting “was undergoing a kind of crisis.” Instead of abandoning painting, notes the curator, “what he did was take the practice of painting to a new place.” 

(Caitlin Dover, https://www.guggenheim.org/blogs/checklist/how-on-kawara-made-his-date-paintings)

On Kawara, Date Paintings, 1980-1985. 

Here are some other photos of On Kawara's date paintings from other exhibitions. 

On Kawara, Date Paintings, Various dates.

On Kawara, Date Paintings, Various dates.

Week #4

Artist Book.

This week we experimented with creating our own artist book. We were given about 50 minutes and attempted to draw 100 pictures in this time. I only got to about 50 or 60. This is a small collection of works from this experiment. I enjoy selecting words to highlight and blacking out the page around it. I also love using charcoal/pastel in my work. 

Text Project Progress #1

Text Project Experiments.

For my first folio project I have decided to use the side effect sheets from prescription medication. I ran them through the A3 printer at uni and blew them up to 600%. I then ran them back through my scanner at home at A4 size. I plan to now take these into photoshop to manipulate them further, and then print them off to draw over the top.  

Week #3

This week was about using multiple text-based surfaces to create a series of images. I chose to use postcards for this work. I like the colour scheme of only black and white and used this for each piece. I found the combination of a stanley knife and then charcoal over the top worked really well for me. I then took the scraps created from this process and collaged them into a different work. I really like these materials and would like to incorporate them into my Text Project. 

After class I uploaded all these images onto Instagram and quite like the effect of the filter over the top. 

Jenny Watson

Reflection on Jenny Watson’s exhibition Chronicles.

This exhibition made me think about the use of text in works ass I think about my text project. It was very interesting how Watson used text panels next to the paintings. Instead of combining them into the one work. I really like her works with the figure and the side accompanying text works. I like the narrative aspect of these works and the story she tells. The words she uses are interesting and tell a story. Her work has feminist aspects that I really admire. 

'Love Hurts', 1994-94. Jenny Watson.

'Love Hurts', 1994-94. Jenny Watson.

'Boy with a blue guitar', 1992. Jenny Watson.

'Boy with a blue guitar', 1992. Jenny Watson.