Melted Clegg

I have now started to use metal plates to do my work on. I looked at a video with Nick Clegg on the internet and printed an image of it from his party conference. I used this image for my metal plate. I have to take more care using it since it would burn the mediums much faster.

I used melted crayons mixed with linseed oil to make this. I found it very interesting of when I melted the layers from the bottom with seep onto the upper layers of paint. I then took this futher and put it into a photo-frame.

Unfortunately  the metal plate wouldn't stay in the frame and kept falling to the bottom. To solve this I used a metal filer to scrape the back part of the metal surface. Then I used glue on the scraped parts and stuck it with the paper. This solved the problem it the metal falling. I then added a text underneath saying 

"Lead Britain forward, while voting Clegg"

This looks more like a prime minister portrait to the ones you see in downing street.

William Hague Propaganda poster

I have gotten an image of the secretary of state William Hague. My idea here would be to use the colouring of the poster to be equivalent to the Apple colour. I also thought that using a high politician to use mass messages to persuade the protesters to go home,. I've also tried to use the text in a comical kind of way.

I also then used Michael Branthwaites advice and took the images to a location to post up. This would make the image become similar to a poster that it would serve its message and fade away. Maybe I could've painted more to this image, but I thought of it as a test. I might try and use screen printing to copy a single image and post them up in multiple locations.

Screen Prints

I have decided to give print making a go since I've managed to do the workshops access to screen prints. The shiney surface worked best for the printings since more detail could be seen through the blue. A good thing about doing screen printing I found was that you could do hundreds of the same image, on different paper. The bad thing about this though is that the colour blue is too strong in this and makes it harder to see. If I were to do this again I should ask the technician if there's anyway to add multicolours to it.

Prints of a section from elephant paper

Elephant paper work- using ascitate with melted crayons

This is my current artwork. I decided to go with a seperate directions and used a projectors to portray an image I drew. I then used oil pastel to go into where to melted paint showed on the projector. I think it worked well on the artwork. I have also made a print of this on shiney paper which I shall upload. Next I plan to look at modern day propaganda and see how the conservatives were like to the workers when they were coming up to the general election.

Here is what the original image looked like. I used Melted crayon mixed with linseed oil on the acetate and used the projector to project it onto the wall.

This image looked a bit over the top for my taste. I also believe that there are two different forms of art technique coming along in the photograph. I shall cut them in half and have them standing as two different paintings.

Working figure

Here I decided to look at Communist propaganda art to help me go for the more industrial look. Here I placed a camera in the background and made the figure Isolated. When I looked at how figure paintings were made in the victorean times, I decided to place objects in the photograph to allow the viewer to deterperate the narrative. I also melted down oil pastels and wax to make this one to see what effect they would have. I found that the linseed oil mixed with oil pastel made a melty effect on the figure. I also placed it onto the lightbox and it gave a rather interesting effect that you could see light going through it and that you could also see the bursh strokes.

Abstract figure

Here I made the figure more abstract to makwe it less human. This was a first try with it which I wanted to take futher.

Charcoal, graphite and oil pastel drawing 3

Here I tried to make more of a narrative with one of the people lying lifelessly on the floor. I also used charcoal with the oil paint to make a kind of surreal form. I found that the the surreal like woman could be taken further to rubbing out the charcoal and leaving it to the colour making it more abstract. The figure on the left also seemed to work more by the fact that I started mixing the oils together.

Charcoal, graphite and oil pastel drawing 2

Here I altered the tone of the photographed subject I was referencing from. I tried to make the woman scream as she saw colourless people around her. I think that after this point I had given up to convey this message because it was to difficult to explain.

Charcoal, graphite and oil pastel drawing

Here I decided to use both charcoal. Here I accidently made the legs of the man on the left to small. The whole painting I tried to make into more of a dreamlike atmosphere. With the man on the left (charcoal guy) falling out of the reality while the man on the left questions the reality. Here I thought that it went good but David Blandy suggested that I stick to one medium.

x

Charcoal and graphite drawing

Here I used charcoal and graphite to make this image. I took a picture of a couple of fellow classmate. In the photrograph I changed the head of one of them to a sheep skull. I tried to make the hands go near the crouch area to make it look more disturbing with a look of uncertancy in the womans face.

Second Painting- using watercolouring

Here is my second watercolouring painting. Here I found that the watercolour liquid I used wasn't very good. It made my painting look rough and generally horrible. I did like the industrialization of the background though. I think I shall leave water colouring here and carry on with using oil pastel.

First Pastel painting- using Linseed Oil with Oil Pastels

This is my first painting. I decided to take a picture of a friend lying against a table to help me start my project. It was also good to help me experiment using oil pastels. I used them along with linseed oil. The problem with using them together was that the oil stained the paper and left marks. In a way this reminded Anna Francis of industrialization, due to the workers clothes.

I found that their were things that went good with this painting however. I found that pushing more with the oil pastels ontop of each other made it more heavier. I could also try experiment more of making a shadowy effect.