Sketchbook Pages Progression

This is the progression work I have done from my sketchbook involving scale. I have enlarged them to A1 size and printed them on photographic paper. I think this size works just as well, if not better, than the size they were originally in my sketchbook. 

'Addicted To Your Heartbreak'  Acrylic Paint, pastel and collage 

'Black and White Over-paint'  Acrylic paint over photograph

'Untitled' Acrylic paint and collage 

Sketchbook Pages

These are some photographs of some pages from my sketchbook. I wanted to experiment with size and see if the artwork in my sketchbook would cope on such a large scale. 

Development work from Dolphinholme




Image to show progression from a photograph I have taken at Dolphinholme. I over-stitched  onto the paper using the sewing machine and as a result, I thought this technique gave the photo an interesting quality and surface texture.

Close-up to show stitch pattern. 

Photoshoot

Spent the afternoon taking photographs in the studio, using each other as a model for our work. I have a few ideas of what I am going to use the photographs for in my work:

Idea 1- Use the photographs captioned 'film' and make a short film replaying the photo's.
Idea 2- Over-paint the photographs in the style of Arnulf Rainer.
Idea 3- Incorporate the photographs in my sketchbook, working with text, paint, etc. 
Idea 4- Edit the images in PhotoShop and print out onto photo paper.  

Me film 1

Me film 2

Me film 3

Me film 4

Me film 5

Me film 6

Me dancing 1

Me dancing 2

Megan and lights

Megan blur

Megan dancing

Megan and Genna dancing 

Tracey Emin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH1F4Xrf0Uk 

BBC HARDtalk - Tracey Emin - Artist (7/6/12)

'How I Think I Feel' Acrylic on canvas 2007

'Exorcism of the Last Painting I Ever Made (detail)' Installation details of 14 paintings from a total of 97 works 1996

Exorcism of the Last Painting I Ever Made (detail)

'Sad Shower in New York' Monoprint on paper 1995

'Always Welcome' Monoprint 1998

'Untitled' Monoprint 2008

'I've Got It All' Ink jet print 2000 

Ideas for Lee Friedlander and Arnulf Rainer influenced work

The two artists that collabaritively gave me ideas for a piece of work or collection were Arnulf Rainer and Lee Friedlander. 

Lee Friendlander

Arnulf Rainer

Richard and I were talking about ideas of where I could find nude photographs for my own work. He mentioned taking a photograph of a computer or television with pornography on it. This also gave me the idea to take a picture of a still of the video, but not of the television or computer as well. I can then paint over the image of the still to cover the nude parts of the body, giving only sight of their faces/facial expressions.  

R.B Kitaj

R.B Kitaj (29 October 1932 – 21 October 2007) was an American artist with Jewish roots who spent much of his life in England.

I have chosen to study a couple of his charcoal drawings because they relate to the life drawings I have done using the same media.

Drawings

'Seated Figure'  Charcoal

'Ashmolean Drawing (Oxford) IV' 1958

Balthus

Balthus was born 29th February 1908 and died on the 19th February 2001. He was a French painter in the second half of the 20th century, famous for his somewhat disturbing paintings of pubescent girls and for his association with some of the greats in modern art, including Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali.

 

Balthus Biography (Artist) — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/balthus.html#ixzz2HUE3B7dS

 

Many of Balthus' paintings are about prepubertal girls in domestic situations who are discovering their sexuality. I presume these paintings would seen as the work of a dirty old aristocrat who got off on the bodies of young girls:a sexual pervert. The erotic appeal of the painting would be seen as quite calculated.

They would be seen as akin to, and a precursor of mainstream pornography's obsession with female "teens" and our market culture's fetishisation of girls and young women. It's teen porn that encourages consumers to see pre-pubescent girls and teenagers as sexual objects and as always sexually available.

Balthus' paintings express a world very different from ours. Another world in fact. What strikes me about this painting and many like it is how the common place gestures in everyday life hide a tragic universe of silence.

http://sauer-thompson.com/conversations/archives/002369.html

'La Chambre' 1954



'Drawing Room' 1943



'Patience' 1943



'Nude with Cat' 1949



Jean Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960-August 12, 1988) was an American artist. He began as an obscure graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970's and evolved into an acclaimed Neo-expressionist and Primitivist painter by the 1980's. 

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (2010)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LgUOnWjmaM 

'Fallen Angel'  1981 Acrylic and oil-stick on canvas

'X-Ray Vision'  Postcard, works on paper, drawings, watercolours, collage

'Untitled' (Pecho-Oreja) 1982-83

'Untitled'  1984 Oil paint-stick and silkscreen on canvas