The intentions I had for this project was
to make full sketchbook that illustrates learning, researches and
type of techniques I tried. I have visit the Tate Britain to conduct
primary research into Turner and his work which from I took some
notes and mainly sketches of the work. In Tate Britain I also looked
at the three interesting and eye catching artists; Edward Lear,
Gerald Scarfe and Rebecca Warren. I also visit Bishop's Palace
Gardens where I been asked to take pictures and make some sketches
what I have seen. I took twenty pictures of really interesting and
great views of this park and 15 minutes earch long observation rough
sketches that came out really good. Through this sketchbook I tried
to explore the techniques and impact that Turner has on painting. I
had also approached to contemporary painters that had context with
Turner's and each others work which was Andrew Newell Wyeth, David
Hockney and Anselm Kiefer. By collecting all those informations
about each one of them I created a journal of contextual study and a
time line pod. I also talked more closely about some of the
techniques that are very familiar to artists as well as those lesser
known or rarely seen. The techniques I done researches on are;
watercolours painting and materials that is need for them, venturing
the outside, charcoal, oil painting, mechanical drawing, Van Gogh
technique and transfers. In addition to three artists in which I
looked at Tate Britain, I also done my research on three other
artists which is Van Gogh, Casper David Friedrich and Edgar Degas. I
produced a presentation demonstrating how will I use this knowledge
to support my own work. I also give my work a grade by carefully
considering the evidence I have for the outcomes. Then I came out
with my final piece to add up all the things I learned Through this
month.
This project was about epic landscapes mainly taken from artists that I been asked to search through. I'm not really passionate in landscapes so this project wasn't something what attracted my attention but I really liked to search through all the artists and techniques I been asked to look for. This is why I came out with many researches in my sketchbook, that why I think this is my strength in this project. I think I done more writing than my own paintings and that why I think my final outcome didn't came out so good so it is my weakness.
Materials that I choose to use for my
final piece is double A0 black paper, charcoal and soft pastels. I
chose this big scale of the final because well as many of those
artists like to work on big paper well as me because then you can
concentrate more on details and everything that can be seen more
clear. I think I chose to use black paper as the charcoal experiment
on black background, that time I thought it came out really good and
I wanted to show my final piece in darker side so that black
background would be perfect for this.
Charcoal spreads very quickly over a large area so by sing this technique, the same piece of colouring surface structure wouldn't take me few hours. The artists I based my final design on is own J.M.W. Turner, Anselm Kiefer and Caspar David Friedrich. As you can see I changed my decision through the time making from presentation. I chose Turner because the task of the outcome is mainly about this artist so that I took sunflowers that he represent many time in the paintings but only changing the black and white into colours used. Anselm Kiefer inspired me with his beautiful paintings representing sky only in the late Turner, beautiful colours well as the style he represented in each one of his outcomes. I like Caspar David Friedrich by the atmosphere he chose to give, romantic but sad.
The atmosphere of my final piece is depressing and sad through that I used colours in flowers. By many of years I chose to use only black and white colours, now I'm trying to get used to into colours what can be seen in each painting I'm making. By the painting artists makes, they showing their expression and what they feel in the right time, this is exactly what I tried to do in this point. I only turn eighteen and people says that in the end of seventeenth your life changes, at the beginning it was hard but it was worth to go through all this so that things changed that something could end. By adding colours I tried to make it look as the dark side shine with bright on some views, but as I could see on the outcome it didn't worked out.
The things that need to be improved is well planning of final outcome, time planning more writing about what go I think about some things, of course more paintings and experiments. I think I haven't came out with really good idea of final outcome because I places that would be needed to show my own point of view. Because I don't think landscapes is something that I amhaven't think about it much and also because on the painting I spend very little time, only 5 hours. As this carries on to the very poor time planing, by the time I didn't have many days to make my final piece because I hurry to finish my sketchbook. I also see that because of the time consuming on other stuff I forgot completely to show my own opinion in some good at so I haven't done much of paintings well as drawings. I could also do more of experiments before making my final piece so that I wouldn't be so disappointed about the final outcome.
What I could improve in my final piece is
the whole design and also I could short a little bit the size of the
paper. I like the idea of sky at the back but I would use more of
colours on the background showing the sunset, the sunflowers could be
more detailed and more realistic well as by having more time I could
add much more things I had in plans to get done. By the beginning I
had plans to draw a person and just a little bit of sunflowers at the
front. I chose to draw a person as we are surrounded by full of
landscapes which we pass every day in our life but never seen it. 
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