Project 1

This is the start of my new blog about my journey through my new OCA course, drawing 1.

It has been a slow start but I have finally finished my first assignment.

The first exercise of this assignment was to warm up and make marks. I didn't do a lot of this but did do some mark making with washing up liquid. It didn't come out that good but I tried!

Feeling and expression - Exercise 1

In this exercise I had to interpret 3 emotions using different marks and choose one of my own.

Anger
I was angry at the time with someone who had upset me so I channelled those feeling into the marks I was making. The marks were made quickly and the pressure of the marks were heavy. The lines were sharp.

Calm
I used light and circular marks as I felt that this felt calm. I one if the drawing I changed the frame to a circle as I felt that this help to give the marks a softer, calmer feel.

Joy
I found joy the hardest to interoperate. I felt fast quick marks a that were spontaneous were show joy the most.

Sad
I choose sad as my last emotion. smudgy lines felt like the right way to interpret this emotion.

 

 

Research Point

 

I looked at the work of Julie Brixey - Williams who is a London based artist. She explores the two - way relationship that the body shares with space. I looked at Locationotation which is a piece based on the movements of dancers.

 

I considered the question of whether art really is capable of expressing emotion. After looking at here work and looking around the internet at other work I would say yes an artist can express emotion through there art. The way the artist makes marks, the materials they chose along with the decisions that the artists make allows the artist to portray emotion that they want. I the work Locationotion I felt the artist expressed the flow of dance and the space that the dancer occupies. Its expressed the joy that can be felt when you dance.

 

I also looked at the work of Gerhard Richter who I found and his work really interested me. I felt that he used space and lines in his drawing to portray emotion. I found his over painted photos evoked emotion and feeling by taking a very over used media to capture everyday life and by painting over the photos so you could only just see what the photo was about made me really think about the use of photo and how selective I am with my photos.