Evaluation and Reflection

Weekly reflections:

For the first week of my project I focused mostly on decide theme forms project. Looking at my work from previous projects a criticising them helped when understanding what work was the most effective and gave me a better idea of where I can take my project forward.  

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This week I now know the theme that I will use and am now generating ideas related to this theme. My theme for this project will be time, I chose this theme partly because its broad and abstract meaning I can make multiple different artworks exploring different areas of this.

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So far this week  I have narrowed my project down so I'm not exploring too many ideas. Using the research I have gathered I decided to focus more on the landscape and showing time through either through multiple times of the day or by just showing landscape in a moment of time, frozen.

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My goal for this week was to decide on an artist that inspired me the most and create work from this. The artist  chose was Richard Diebenkorn because of his style of art that includes strong mark making and effective colour mixing. Using one of my personal photos as a reference and this is the result.

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For this week I focused on making primary source paintings of the landscape and my surroundings although while using my artist research as inspiration. Although I have encountered a problem that is still keeping the theme of time relevant and clear in my work. A possible solution to this would be to show movement or decay in my work, for example I could paint birds in flight or waves in the water and these could be examples of showing time my landscape. I can also use the idea of decay, like a bridge overcome by nature, this would show age in the bridge.

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 Evaluation 

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After reflecting over my work I feel that I made work work that was relevant to my theme and that I have explored multiple different ways of exploring this theme although I did narrow it down early on after realising it was too ambitious to create work for each different avenue. After deciding I will be focusing on presenting time in the landscape It was a lot easier to focus all my work on this one idea, initially starting with taking pictures in the landscape to build up some secondary source that I can use when in the college to make work from. For my research I first started by researching into the theme of time and all the different ways it can be portrayed and the different interpretations other artists had taken, then deciding on the artists that inspired me the most. Examples like Claude Monet and  David Hockney. Most of the sources used for making my work was primary source photos taken of different landscapes that I had collected while doing my project at different times of the day. I have also spent time in the landscape making primary source paintings, this helped give the paintings a better sense of the landscape. 

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Throughout this project I have experimented with different techniques like oil pastel and collage before finally deciding to focus mainly with paint, in this project I feel I have learnt the most about painting by experimenting with different mark making tools and  repetitively practicing with paint. This was after deciding for my final piece to be on canvas. All this research and planning informed me a lot before making my first canvas painting. I feel that as the project progressed my work improved and that I was moving in the right direction although I did have trouble connecting my work back to my theme. My main visual language for most of my work of landscape is colour and form. If I could go back and improve on this project I would have spent more time on the idea generation and  planning stage so I could know exactly where I want the project to go and have more ideas to work from. This project was the only project I chose fine art as my specialist pathway, as well as being much more freeing, I feel this decision has developed me as a creative practitioner. In my opinion my most effective work, surprisingly was the experimental work that I hadn't planned, one of my favourite pieces to work on as the quick paintings of the landscape at different times of day. I found the best method to develop initial ideas was to take pictures, throughout this project I went out into the landscape and took pictures, this built up over time and meant that I had plenty of primary source photos to work from. When developing ideas and creating work these photographs were then used as reference.my audience is for anyone interested in paintings of natural landscapes, the work is joyful and colourful and has a feel of spring and this may interest someone who would like a painting on their wall to remind them of spring.

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Taking the knowledge from previous projects I feel has helped improve my work and how I approach what I'm making, with the change to my specialist pathway to fine art has given me more freedom to explore more styles and techniques. When considering the ethics and possible environmental impacts of my work my work I researched into how acrylic paint