L2 painting update | T2W1

Through the holidays I worked on building up some ideas for painting, based around my kaupapa and based off of my artist models - Vincent Van Gogh, Mimmo Paladino, Marilynn Webb. The idea I worked on the most and developed further is a painting inspired by Mimmo Paladino which I've since titled 'Smell The Roses'. 

1st thumbnail sketch- very rough idea

2nd sketch based off of first thumbnail sketch -developing, identifying key aspects

3rd sketch, continuing to strengthen ideas and aspects, identifying the meaning

Final painting.

I'm very proud of how this painting turned out because it incorporates a lot of the stylisation and art aspects of my artist model Mimmo Paladino, I feel like I didn't really include much of that in last year's folio so it's a goal of mine this year to incorporate more as well as combine them. It's a very dark painting both in meaning and appearance which I'm going to try and stray away from on the rest of my board, but again I still like how it's turned out. 

One thing I'm going to try and do in my next paintings is make a more clear link to my kaupapa of mindfulness that's not through actually reading text. However it does link into my kaupapa well I think, it represents one's pessimistic outlook on life, I included the text 'Smell the Roses' as a sort of mock on how people tend to handle other people's mental health -  expecting the tiniest things to make a huge difference when really it doesn't have much of an effect most of the time. 

L2Art Week 8 update | Building up my folio board

Second artwork - still life :)

 

First artwork - tree :)

Third artwork - skeleton :)

For the past week I worked on these three paintings, white acrylic on black gesso, to develop my understanding of the technique of negative space for my folio. The first works especially link into my theme of environmental protection and kaupapa of mindfulness. The skeleton is less obviously linked but it still helped a lot with developing a better understanding of highlights, shadow and light sources. 

What is my Kauapa: three key words

Landscapes, fruit, environment

What artists have I looked at so far?

Vincent Van Gogh (so far!)

How does my work show that I considered Negative space?

My work uses negative space because I’ve specifically chosen a “point” where the light source is and used high contrast between light and dark areas, so most of the subject matter is shadowed but you know it’s there because of the highlights. 

What has happened in the making process that led me to new ideas around negative space once the works were made?

This has given me a better understanding of how I can effectively use negative space but still keep a high level of detail. Eg. negative space doesn’t have to be as simple as I thought, and I can generate great art using it. I’ve also learned a lot about light sources, highlights as well as shadows. 

What can I do to go further with my work?

Introducing colour, backgrounds, keeping fruit as a visual symbol throughout my folio board. I also want to start looking at my other artist models, Marilyn Webb and Mimmo Paladino, and generate works that I've incorporated some of their elements into. 

L2Art / Week 1+2 update

 In Weeks 1 and 2 I've been working on choosing my theme and developing a kaupapa branching off of that. 

The theme I've chosen is environmental protection. 
This could look like:
-Landscapes (rural)
-Cityscapes, landmarks, houses, villages
-Genre painting

This could include (subject matter):
-Trees
-Water
-Grass, flowers
-Houses
-Fruits and foods, still life

My board this year, visually, will be inspired by artists Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet- these are both very famous landscape painters so it fits into my theme very well. My board will revolve around mindfulness.

This is a moodboard I created from a variety of artists. As you can see they are predominantly landscapes or cityscapes, people have been included in some of them. 

I think this moodboard really sets the tone on how I want my folio to look this year. 

The artists I've chosen for 2.1 is Vincent Van Gogh, Mimmo Paladino and Marilynn Webb.

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ENG 1.3 Unfamiliar poetry

http://drshew.weebly.com/uploads/4/1/3/6/41362521/whatisapoemexamples.pdf

What do these poems suggest about the way we should approach poetry?  

These poems suggest that we should approach all poetry with an open mind, to 'dive headfirst', to let yourself be amazed and surprised by poetry, to consume the poem in it's entirety without holding back.

What is one specific example (evidence from the text)? One of the poems, 'How to Eat a Poem' by Eve Merriam, has a main message that is telling us to approach a poem head-first- "Don’t be polite. Bite in,"- and to savor every word, not waste anything, "...and lick the juice that may run down your chin." Eating fruit has been used as a metaphor, the purpose of this was to help us understand the message in a more engaging way, that we should read a poem as it you were eating fruit, to not waste a drop and to lick the juice off our chins, to approach a poem head-on.

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L1HEc / Japanese Pancakes お好み焼き

For our practical yesterday in Home Ec, today we made Japanese Pancakes, or okonomiyaki. They're a sort of savoury pancake common in Japanese culture. 

Our recipe was untraditional, and was made from flour, eggs, water, soy sauce, cabbage, bacon and corn. We topped our okonomiyaki with traditional okonomiyaki sauce (a mix of worcestershire sauce, honey, tomato sauce) and store-brought Japanese mayonnaise. 

Overall the recipe was easy to make, it included different processes like chopping the cabbage, stirring the mixture and then frying them in the pan. I like how we had options on what we did and didn't include. It was a bit bland by itself but the okonomiyaki sauce brought a lot of flavour, even if I did choose to have tomato sauce on mine instead.

I will probably make this recipe again at home, I'd probably add something like spinach, feta cheese and garlic (not traditional, but it would taste good).