I had my last tutorial with tom before the last unit assessment for this academic year. I don't think I achieved as many paintings as I wanted like in the last assessment but I tried as hard as I could to do so. To be honest, I am proud of the two paintings I have up there and I did push myself and make some progress, but I don't feel like it was as much as in the last assessment. Perhaps it was because of the lull in inspiration for what felt like months and too many ideas not falling into place. Or the stress of the night circus / PPD work. Nevertheless, I am still happy with the outcome. Well, it feels like now I finally have big ideas for big paintings, only a week before assessment. Not enough time for a painting to solidify... but I'll definitely keep them on my mind over the summer to come back and tackle.
Monday, today, was a chaotic day for my friends, olive has two medium sized canvases she's working on and decided to change the colour that she laid down suddenly. Trinh was agonizing over her two very extremely large stretchers/canvases and how she accidentally crumpled one of them while it was kind of tacky...I suggested somethings to work around it (she re-stretched it and it was much better) When she said she hated the face she painted, I tried to help her a little bit as well, of the things I realised when I was painting the face of my sister (even though that was literally the only face I've ever painted at university and I don't know what I'm doing) But it must be much harder to free hand a face like that, I feel that I cheated my through the proportion part. Both Alicia and Tom have said it doesn't matter though. some artists do that with their work too, e.g. janiva ellis projecting the elements that require more accuracy.
Seeing them and people around me stretch canvases reminded me of how I wanted to try that as well, but I ran out of time and will definitely challenge that area next year. I learnt only by watching an induction in foundation year, and tim's workshop, but you definitely need to do it yourself to learn the complete process. Watching them struggle with canvas stretching and making the stretcher scared me, and I sense a feeling of doom when I think of canvas making, but it's definitely something I need to do soon. Even now, making a panel is intimidating. There is something about the manual/physical making of things that is so unmemorable/insignificant in my memory that it just doesn't stick. Every time I go into the wood workshop I forget how to do things and feel helpless. You do feel accomplished after though. I guess I'm just not a particularly strong Maker. Anyway, I feel ready to fight third year head-on.
Monday, today, was a chaotic day for my friends, olive has two medium sized canvases she's working on and decided to change the colour that she laid down suddenly. Trinh was agonizing over her two very extremely large stretchers/canvases and how she accidentally crumpled one of them while it was kind of tacky...I suggested somethings to work around it (she re-stretched it and it was much better) When she said she hated the face she painted, I tried to help her a little bit as well, of the things I realised when I was painting the face of my sister (even though that was literally the only face I've ever painted at university and I don't know what I'm doing) But it must be much harder to free hand a face like that, I feel that I cheated my through the proportion part. Both Alicia and Tom have said it doesn't matter though. some artists do that with their work too, e.g. janiva ellis projecting the elements that require more accuracy.
Seeing them and people around me stretch canvases reminded me of how I wanted to try that as well, but I ran out of time and will definitely challenge that area next year. I learnt only by watching an induction in foundation year, and tim's workshop, but you definitely need to do it yourself to learn the complete process. Watching them struggle with canvas stretching and making the stretcher scared me, and I sense a feeling of doom when I think of canvas making, but it's definitely something I need to do soon. Even now, making a panel is intimidating. There is something about the manual/physical making of things that is so unmemorable/insignificant in my memory that it just doesn't stick. Every time I go into the wood workshop I forget how to do things and feel helpless. You do feel accomplished after though. I guess I'm just not a particularly strong Maker. Anyway, I feel ready to fight third year head-on.
