Art 2017
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Everything I do in Art will be posted onto this same post. I like to keep things connected together rather than on a separate blog post, to me it looks a lot tidier.
17/10/19After 9 Months of long days, nights and the many hours in the weekends and school holidays I can say I've completed my Level 1 Art Follio! I had so many meltdowns at different times throughout the year and I just wanted to give up because I was 'over it' but I managed to produce a whole body of work that I feel proud of and that's more than what I imagined at the beginning of this year. Mrs told us at the begining of the year to not pick a theme that would drain us because we were going to be working on it all year.... But I turned all of my insecurities and negative thoughts into a theme not knowing how it would affect me. Although over the last 9 months I've learnt from it myself and it has helped me grow to accept, love and embrace myself. I never felt ashamed of how I looked when I was younger until Social Media became a thing. It has had so much influence on how I've felt about the way I looked for 5 years now and I'm only 1 out of millions of girls. I felt like I wasn't good enough compared to other girls, or that I wasn't skinny enough or pretty enough like the girls I see on Instagram..... But this year something in me gave me the courage to stop feeling that way. I decided to not care about any ones thoughts and opinions of me. I don't care about Social Medias expectations of what is classed as beautiful and I don't care if I don't fit that artificial image because I'm happy being me and I'm glad that I can finally be done with the stress of this follio.. :)
16/10/17
Today was the first day back of term and I'm feeling pretty confident that I'll finish my follio within the next few days before the deadline. I did come in during the holidays and I got so much done even though I did complain about everything Mrs wanted me to add or change which did in the end look so much better so I'm publicly apologising to you Mrs Clemence and I do appreciate everything you did for me this year! So a few things did change, a few bits were tweaked and I today I reprinted the words "Social Media is destroying our society" in the the pink and white because it looked better. Tomorrow the only thing I have to do is re print out word spew and word montage photo because I added more detail to my installation piece I had no where to put the other piece so I had to re size a few things and put them together but I didn't have time to print it, but tomorrow I'll do that and I'll finally be finished!!!
13/10/17The last 2 days I've gone into school to help try finish my board! Me and Mrs Clemence both agreed that you can't really tell how much work went into my installation piece and that I needed to show more of my work on my folio somewhere so I decided to put aside my word montage piece for a moment and found some photos off my blog to make into a little collage of photos of the process of this piece and I printed it off to put on my board next to the photograph of the installation piece. Around that was a huge gap that I needed to fill so I came up with the idea to do 3 different pieces of work to make it a combine into one that linked with my final piece and this piece! On the side next to the final installation photo I have a comic strip with a few different shots from this same piece and I made a comic strip like my spray paint piece that said "Social Media is destroying our society" which links to the spray paint piece and I used the white lettering and the pink background to link to my final piece. Then above that is a pink piece of paper with a white cellphone that repeats the words "I am only human" and then next to that on the left is a mini collage of the words "I am only human" because I just wanted it to be really repetitive with it and it works so nicely and I'm glad I changed it and did that. I do still have a few things to do on Monday but they're only little things that I can fix up! I'm feeling really good about finishing it soon yayyyyyy!
06/10/17
It's the first week of the holidays and on the last day of term I was working on the skull for my final piece but then a few days later I kind of just gave up and didn't want to go through with it and then when I got to school yesterday she asked me where it was and I told her it was at home and she ended up taking me all the way home just to get it!!!!!!!But after a good 10 minutes of disagreeing I just decided to go with it because there is really no point arguing with her... So I drew it out on a piece of lino and cut it out then then next day I printed it. The first few prints were on paper and then I did it on a few different photos of the barbie and then chose my favourite one! I wanted to do a pink background because barbie is all about pink! So that worked nice and then I really just wanted to cut out the paper prints I did first because they looked really cool on both sides of the barbie!! And then I really wanted to add words to my final piece so "I'm Only Human" was a perfect way to conclude the board! I did eventually run out of time but I'm going in next week to do some work tweaking because even though I've finished my last piece I need to refine a few things, add bits and change things too...
29/09/17
27/09/17
So usually I wouldn't have Art today but because I finished all the standards in music this year Mrs Beer has been nice enough to let me come over to Art to finish my board!!! So I feel like I got a lot done today! I printed off the Word Spew Montage piece onto my board and I'm really happy with how this piece has turned out and I love the layout on my board!!! I also managed to print my final woodcut piece! In the end I decided that I wasn't too keen on printing it over top of the watercolour because I personally just liked the woodcut better and it looks a lot more detailed as well as it goes more with my first 2 pieces (Spray paint comic strip and my first woodcut on the feeling trapped by social media ect;). I think I did about 5 prints until I thought it was up to a good standard and it looked good on my board as well and didn't look odd or unusual... and I did have to play around with it a bit and then I really liked the idea of playing around with the ink and having a separate coloured background from the body so it stood out more!! Overall I think today was super productive and I'm happy with how things are coming together!
26/09/17Because today is Tuesday and we have Art last period I worked through till after school to finish cutting out my woodcut piece because dang did that take a longggggg time but I guess fine Art takes time. I'm actually really happy with how it's turned out as well, like obviously I haven't started printing but the cutting out itself is usually not my expertise and surprisingly the cut looks good, consistent and I cannot wait to start printing tomorrow!! Because I technically don't have Art tomorrow but in Muisc last period I'm going to come over and do some work because I've finished everything for the year in that class and every minute counts in these last few days to finish my board. After I've done the printing tomorrow, hopefully Mrs has printed of my Word Spew Montage Piece and I can put that onto my board, so the rest of what time I have left is focused on finishing my final piece for my board. I know I still need to finish it but I'm just super excited to have almost finished my board and I cannot wait to see it complete (and then have like 5 minutes to look at it before its shipped away till January) but I've just worked so hard this year to finish my board to a high quality. And I have learned that not everything is perfect but I now think that the imperfect things make my board perfect and I'm proud of the body of work I've produced.
22/09/17
Today I managed to get a lot done and I'm happy with the progress I'm making. Next time this week is the last lesson I'll have on my board and I guess I don't really have a lot to do so I actually not feeling that stressed about everything.. So today I managed to finish my full layout and achieved what I wanted to for my Word Spew Montage piece so I'm glad I did that. But I didn't get enough time to print it so that will be the first thing I do on Tuesday! I'm really glad i added the pop art thing because that was one of my original ideas this year and I just didn't have the right thing to do it with until now so yayyy for that turning out! Also I liked the layout because I start with the original piece and I just photocopied that so it was digital as well and them it goes onto a photocopied version of the original being slightly altered and their were the main 6 dominant colours then underneath that is my digital version of the face which then turned into me developing more ideas with a pop art face turning into more pop art ideas. So it's a chain of ideas really. And using this piece and my barbie piece it will influence my final piece. I'm going to make Monday my final lesson on my wood cut because that's when I have Mrs Cairns so I'll make that my printing period, and I'll have to print it a few times onto a paper copy and then the original piece if I feel confident. Then I'll have to let it dry and/or cut it out more ect; then on Tuesday I'll print off my photo piece and stick it onto my board and then spend the rest of the period and after school starting on my last piece or reprinting my woodcut if I needed to. But I definitely want to have a plan for my final piece before I go home on Tuesday so on Wednesday I can come in at interval an lunch and do some work then also focus on doing it on Thursday 2nd period and go into interval and then come back at lunch and then I'll hopefully Friday is just to touch things up and print it out and make sure everything is on my board and finished to the high standard I'm going for.
19/09/17
Today I made so much progress but ended up losing it all cause my computer crashed and it didn't save. But I now I know what I'm doing I'm hoping that I can regenerate it. So at the start of the year I wanted to incorporate something pop art into my work and I never found it anywhere to fit until now. For my montage word spew piece I was working on my digital poster and it was the perfect fit. I did the sort of pop art look on her and I think I'm going to do a 4 image and different colour backgrounds. On my board plan out I printed off some possible designs just to get a rough idea that led to new ideas which it did and that's how I came up with doing the 4 image pop art thing. Because I also measured on my board that if I wanted to fit all 4 from original to digital they could only be 15 cm each which would be completely out of proportion so I'm going to have to resize some things and think about it, alter some things until it looks good! So currently my computer I worked is getting seen by the IT guy but I'm quite sad it didn't save because I'd worked for like 30-40 minutes trying to get the dots all aligned and I've gone back 2 steps so it's frustrating but I can only try. But theres less than a week left now and the stress is starting to kick in.15/09/17
Unfortunately,this week I didn't get much done because I was sick and went home early on Tuesday and didn't got today so I'm just going to update my blog. I've felt really run down lately with lots of deadlines at school and my commitments to things outside of school so I think that's why I got sick. But this week was not the time for it, especially for this class because these last 2 weeks are crucial to get my board finished. So this weeks focus was supposed to be on the woodcut print for my watercolour piece but I didn't get very far with the carving. It really hurts my hands and back from doing it after awhile so I was only able to start it off a bit so I'm going to just try do a little bit each day and hope it's finished by the end of the term. I started with cut around the outside so their is the shape outline of a body. Then I went on to do the arms, and I'll slowly make my way down for the first body and then for the second body I'm thinking of doing the opposite cutting so like inside out if you get what I mean, so where it's black for the other one it will be white.... So then next week on Monday I might spend that period on the woodcut but then Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday my pure focus is on getting my digital poster finished on the computer and I'll have to stay after school and during lunches if I have to. Then my final week will be bringing everything together to form my final piece and finish the woodcut print.
08/09/17Today I printed out my installation piece photo and I think It looks good! Only thing I haven't liked is the fact it's in a public space around the school and you have to hear all sorts of shitty comments about how you look and it's just not what you want to hear, especially when your theme is based around this kind of stereotypical stuff with beauty. But anyway rants aside, I think I'll have to re print it again because it looks a little to small on my board and the paper printed crooked but I could work with it and maybe take some Polaroid photos and stick them around it? But I could do that anyway even if I printed it a bit bigger... So I guess I'll just play around with that on Monday as well as starting to cut out my woodcut If I can get the design done by the end of the weekend! I just need to do a pattern on the outer body but then maybe add some detail to the bodies then that will be ready. So I'm feeling really onto it and confidently about how I've managed my time and I don't feel as stressed as I thought I would be feeling so this is a good feeling. Only 2 more pieces to finish and then I can focus on the final piece. Hopefully I can get the digital illustrator poster finished next week and just spend all of next week on it that would be good so then I can actually focus on the last piece because this watercolour/woodcut piece is just adding on what I've already got so I'm not too worried about that.
07/09/17 Today was super productive and I managed to do a lot!! I probably spent 3 hours doing Art today. During second period I had Art so I focused all of that onto doing finishing my digital version of my word montage spew piece. It was really time consuming the first time I did it and I didn't get much done but for some reason I felt like I'd already got the hang of things! I was so surprised because usually it would've taken me awhile to get my head around it.. Maybe that's a sign to tell me I'm just a natural designer ? So that all turned out good and I'm still playing around with whats going on in the spew and how I'm going to develop it... But for now I'm happy with my progress considering I only started on Tuesday.. and I'm going to continue doing Tuesday after school, and maybe a Wednesday if I'm feeling behind but yeah I'm happy with that.
So then because after period 2 it goes into interval so I just worked through the interval, setting up all my photos for my installation piece. Then period 3 I had music but because I'm ahead I thought I could just spend some more time on it. So at first I'd actually forgotten my layout plan for it, luckily I actually post on my blog so I could check because it feels like it's been awhile since I've actually done anything with this piece. Then I had to get Mrs Clemmence to ask the construction people if they could somehow black out their side of the window so the light wouldn't shine through. So thankfully they did with a massive black tarp they had. I swear I took about 100 photos from all sorts of angels until I finally got the perfect shot that I wanted!! I didn't have enough time to print it off but I'll do that again tomorrow.05/09/17
Today I stayed after school to start on my illustrator poster. It took awhile to play around with, but then eventually I got the hang of it. What we did was let the computer pick 6 of the dominant colours and it took out bits that it thought didn't need to be there and got out some unnecessary bits which then looked so good. Then I played around with the pen tool to recreate a digital version of the face which is a work in progress because the anchor points can really annoy you at times but so far I have the face and lip shape and now I'm just trying to create a shadow for lips the I'll focus on the nose. I also want to do something cool with the word spew like either develop from the really negative words to the positive ones or overlaying different texts on different texts ect; But tomorrow I'm focusing on the installation piece and I'm aiming to get that photographed, so I can get it printed on Friday and onto my board!!!
04/19/17Over the weekend I started on a design for the woodcut print that Mrs wants me to print over top of my watercolour body image piece. I really liked this design even though it is clearly not finished. I've used some patterns with the body's outlines because it makes it stand out more, which I'll do on the other body too I just haven't got around to that yet. Also the flower on her chest is actually an idea generated from a woodcut piece I did last year to do with kowhaiwhai and I really thought it would bring a nice natural element to this piece so I felt like I had to used it!! I think It'll give this piece just that much more meaning. So over the next week I'll finish the design so I can start cutting it out. Besides this piece I only need to finish 3 pieces and I feel confident I'll get them done. The installation piece is what I'm going to focus on for Thursday because we have it Period 2 and I'll work into interval on it. Then tomorrow I'll be starting my illustrator design poster which I'll be staying at school every Tuesday and I'm thinking of maybe a Wednesday or two... and intervals and lunches to work on that piece. Then once all of them are done I can focus on the final piece for my board which I'm hoping I can spend the whole last week on that hopefully.
13/08/17
My board is due in less than a month now and the stress is starting to kick in. Today I felt very stressed and almost had a low key break down when Mrs wasn't looking but the show must go on. So long story cut short we couldn't find Sandra who is the lady who deals with the construction people and what not and we need to talk to her so we can go onto one of their sites to put up my cardboard for my installation piece. So because she wasn't here to do that we couldn't finish that piece which totally guttered me cause I wanted to of finished that so long ago to have that postponed. So that is my first priority for next week on Monday. Also I need to finish the words on my montage word spew piece, so on Tuesday Period 5 after school Mrs can help me make an illustrator poster which I'm super excited for! We also talked briefly about instead of doing the teenage brain piece, to do like a design brief sort of thing with the illustrator poster as I'm taking design next year and it would be make sense to do something like that. I'll also be finishing my board digitally on illustrator as well, I'm not fully sure on what It will be yet but I think that's perfect way to finish and conclude my board. Ugh and Mrs had told me today that my watercolour body image piece isn't finished and I need to put a wood cut over top of it so over the long weekend I'm going to sketch that out and then I will have to cut it out in my spare time at like intervals and lunches and even at home so I can get that done as well. So the goal is to have my installation piece photographed and printed then put onto my board. I also want to at least have half finished the whole word spew thing as it make take me a few days to figure out the whole illustrator thing. Then I also want to have a good idea on what I'm doing for this last piece. Then get the wood cut done or at least half done. Wow a lot to do, better get cracking on what I can over this weekend, plan it out right have good time management and I should be good.
28/08/17
Today I put the design of the girl for my word spew piece into action, using the acrylic paints and I think it looks good and effective. The skin tone is the perfect skin colour I was going for, but of course I'll still probably go over it again for a second coat tomorrow where places need to be touched up and then I'll finish off the rest of the words by the end of this week. I would say that then that'll be this piece done but Mrs said today that she wants me to scan it and make an illustrator poster, print it out on photo paper then put it onto my board. And I actually think that's a good idea and it could even make a difference in my overall grade for the internals as well as the external but that also means more time to spend on this piece, so I do need to work on my time management skills and crack down on things, making sure I get it done even if that means staying after school one day to sit down with Mrs and do it. Which I might actually do that or at interval where I've had class before hand so she can sit down with me while I do it. Tomorrow I kind of wanted to mainly focus on my teenage word brain piece. I need to find an outline online of a head and brain inside of it so I can enlarge it to around A3 size and use it as a visual template to draw from when doing the outlines for this piece. Hopefully after tomorrows period I would have done the outlining for this piece and be ready to start painting the background, but before I do that I will need to think about what kind of paint i want to use.
25/08/17Today I was sick in bed all day but of course I still needed to do some work. So right now all my other pieces are pretty much on hold until I get back to school and I wanted to plan a bit more onto the teenage thoughts piece. I thought about it for awhile and I want there to be colourful and dark elements to this piece. So it did take me awhile to come up with a design I liked but in the end it made more sense with how I wanted things to work out. This piece is probably going to be a mix of a lot of different media's... At the moment I'm thinking paint and I think I might play around with the arrangement of the rainbow, and use patterns throughout it to add dynamic and draw interest. The next question for this piece is how am I going to make the inside of the brain like a brain? Like do i section it off inside about the different thoughts or layer thoughts over thoughts? I don't know... That'll have to be a discussion for another day.
23/08/17
Today I did some rushed and not so very good sketches/drawings for my word spew piece and finally managed to design a good face for this piece. Now I just need to decide on the media and do it asap. There is coming up only 5 weeks left of the term so there is only 5 weeks left until my boards due, 20 hours class time so I'm going have to find at least another 15-20 more hours out of my own time to commit to this!!!
22/08/17Today I came into school for the two hours required and I now feel like I'm really getting somewhere with my board. Like for the past few weeks I've been stressing out on how things are going to work out, but within the 2 hours that I was here I managed to get all of the barbie pictures all sized up and printed onto good photo paper and then I put them onto my board. I'm really happy with how they turned out, and I'm glad that I can incorporated the VOUGE idea still as that links back to one of my first pieces as well as this piece being a developed idea from the teenage mind so it still links to something else too which I think is cool. I also had enough time to think about my installation piece and play around with the cameras to gain some practice/experience in using proper cameras rather than just my cellphone. It took me awhile to figure out how to actually focus the camera properly but in the end I managed to get it and I think I'll be fine when taking the photo for my piece. Me and Mrs Clemence also discussed that the wood board at the back that we were going to get Mr Rzoka to do up, can just be cardboard because it will still cover the light from shining through and along as it's not raining on the day, it will be fine. I'm really excited to get that piece finished so hopefully by the time assessment week is over I'll have the carboard so I can put it up, put my photos up, then I can photograph it. After photographing it I'll take the best picture and print it onto good photo paper so I can finally put it onto my board. I'm a little bit upset at myself for not using those artists models as influence for my work but i think looking at them was a good starting point for me to develop on my own ideas and artwork. Tomorrow I don't have any exams on so I'm going to stay at home and focus on the montage word spew piece and I'm going to try make a start on the teenage brain/thoughts one aswell.
21/08/17
Today I'd thought about it and I really wanted to still incorporate the VOGUE idea somewhere into my panel so I spent the day trying to edit this Barbie photo into looking like an actual VOGUE magazine cover and I think I achieved that!! The main message behind this is written in the bold white lettering the sticks out like a sore thumb compared to everything else (that was intentional) it was all about the impact of those words that I focused on, not even Barbie herself. The other text is just put there to make it seem more of a magazine like piece. So I will be putting this onto my board towards the right side below the spew piece, as that will be the finishing photo for this entire piece as it sums up how the ideas have developed and to the left will be the edited photos shown in my last entry. This piece is kind of the extended idea from the teen thought piece which I'll be starting on after I've finished a piece because I don't want to be doing 4 of them at once. But the teen thought has Barbie incorporated into it so this is the extended piece based off that idea of teens negative thoughts because of social media brainwash. Tomorrow I have to go in for 2 hours because it's exam week so I want to size these out to the right measurements to fit my board then print them off and hopefully they look good on my board! Also while I'm in there I might play around a bit with the camera's so I can get practice for my Installation piece.
17/08/17 
Today was the first day of assessment week and I had nothing to do after my exams so I planned out a possible piece based on barbie. I think I've referenced her in my blog before earlier on in the year for my teenage thought piece that will start off my second panel, but I wanted to add onto it a bit more on this panel because it ties in the whole body image concept with my theme. 
I've also decided to use Photography and Photoshop for this piece and the idea is to take photos of the barbie and edit them to show the shadow behind the barbie to symbolise the darkness you don't see behind her glow and smile... and I'm thinking a collage of the shadow developing as if over time the shadow has grown darker and heavier onto her. I hope when others see it they can understand how I've visualised it and see that this is a representation of girls in this generation... but then again my entire board is based on how the viewers perceives it and how they interpret it. So I got so into it and just instantly wanted to put it all into action so that's what I did. It did take me awhile to get those bloody Mac computers working but after 2 hours I got 2 photo shots of the barbie, and edited them then put them into a colleage! I really like this so I might just use these for my board instead of going with my original idea of using vogue because I love ittt
15/08/17
So over the last few weeks I've been trying to get all these photos printed for my Installation Piece for like almost a month I think now and finally I've managed to finally get them all done and have my layout of the photos all sorted!!! I'm really happy with the layout, you can't really just focus on looking at one thing, it's just everywhere and mind exploding and it will look even better with the whit background it'll stand out a lot more in your face! I also measured the length and width of the window so when I ask Mr Rozka about the board I can give him the right measurements and hopefully he can get that done for me! I know I told myself I'd finish this piece by week 2 but I think everything will be fine, well I hope so. As long as I can finish my board without panic I'll be happy. I'll admit I've been a bit slack lately with blog posts but I'm going to try make it up during assessment week and try get ahead on things! I'm slowly getting through the words on the montage word spew but that takes time and thought on where to place things so I'll also focus on getting that done over assessment week, as well as figuring out a design and media for the girls face...
04/08/17
Today I started on the word montage piece/word spew as I've decided to call it! So I started off by spray painting the background black like all my other pieces and then over that sprayed the white, which is the foundation for the spew.. The words will go inside the white part which I'm working on... I feel like that white draws the attention to the spew rather than if it was left black...
I also finished printing all of my pictures for my installation piece! So on Monday I'll trim the edges so they all fit nicely on the windows! Which I talked to Mrs about the light shining through the paper and she said to talk to Mr Rzoska about getting a board behind it so I'll have to get some measurements for that he knows how big I need it....
Next Thursday & Friday I'll be away at Leadership camp so I'm going to try plan ahead and get some things finished and sorted by the time I leave.
28/07/17
Today I drew up some panel 2 layout ideas... Obviously it's too early in the term for me to already have a full layout plan for this panel as I haven't even planned the pieces for it, but then again I never had a solid plan for my first panel till week 7 of term 2.. So I guess I have a few weeks to decide on it... but once I've planned all the pieces for this panel I'll have a rough indication on what things are going where... But so far the only definite thing that will stay where it is at the moment is my word montage piece....
Also today, I've just been updating my blog for this week as Mrs is focusing on Level 2 students today. Next week we'll continue to print those good copies off for my Installation piece and I will also need to sort out the backboard for it.I'm going to make some homework for myself over the weekend, to trim back all the edges for the 3 pictures that are already printed. I'm still not sure if I've already referenced it in a previous blog entry but I'm starting a plan for every week so I can keep on track ect; so here is the start of it... ( Sorry it's round the wrong way, the photo wouldn't rotate.. )
27/07/17Today me and Mrs managed to only get 2 more of my photos printed out onto good photo paper because of how big they are and how long it takes to print. The photos take up majority of the page but we've also realised that some of them weren't quite big enough to fit to scale so we did a collage of 4 and will continue to do that for those that don't fit nicely which I believe will add to the dynamics of the piece and change it up. I also spoke to Mrs about the Installation piece's backdrop having light shinning through and that I needed something to black it out.. Mrs suggested a board behind it to black it out which I think will work good. I'm just not sure what kind of board? I may have to speak to Mrs Rzoska or Rees about this? I also have been thinking about my second panel and I've measured out the size for my montage piece the same as the first one and spray painted the background black as well. This piece will be opposite the other word montage piece on panel 2. My original idea was to have negative vs positive but I feel like the mixed message in both is perfect because it is the perfect representation of social media. It isn't just only negative or only positive... it's both.. Which I think fits perfectly with my theme/concept.
25/07/17
Today I was really low key stressing about the installation piece to finish my first panel, but Mrs Clemence sorted out the printer so she printed my first good paper photo! So slowly were going to continue to chip away at printing each one but it could definitely take a few periods which is not good. However, as long as everything else is good for that piece then that should be okay. I'll just have to plan more for my second panel and start my first piece for that just while the installation piece is in a slow motion process.. Anyway, I put up the backdrops and then took some of my rough paper copy's and put them up against the windows and the background paper isn't thick enough to stop light from travelling though it which is a bummer. I don't know how I'm going to fix it or I wonder If I could even make it work and use it to my advantage? I''ll have to talk to Mrs about it... Tomorrow I don't have Art but I'm just going to do some more planning for my second panel and get started on my first piece which is the montage piece that contrasts with the other word montage piece... I'm thinking of something still involving word montage as well as another media? I'll have to come up with some more ideas...
Today I was really low key stressing about the installation piece to finish my first panel, but Mrs Clemence sorted out the printer so she printed my first good paper photo! So slowly were going to continue to chip away at printing each one but it could definitely take a few periods which is not good. However, as long as everything else is good for that piece then that should be okay. I'll just have to plan more for my second panel and start my first piece for that just while the installation piece is in a slow motion process.. Anyway, I put up the backdrops and then took some of my rough paper copy's and put them up against the windows and the background paper isn't thick enough to stop light from travelling though it which is a bummer. I don't know how I'm going to fix it or I wonder If I could even make it work and use it to my advantage? I''ll have to talk to Mrs about it... Tomorrow I don't have Art but I'm just going to do some more planning for my second panel and get started on my first piece which is the montage piece that contrasts with the other word montage piece... I'm thinking of something still involving word montage as well as another media? I'll have to come up with some more ideas...
24/07/17
Today was the first day back of Term! This is it! The final countdown to the end of the term/when this is due is going to be approaching fast and it's freaking me out! And especially with Leadership Camp & Assessment week going on this term I feel like it will be stressful! So I need to get stuck into my work and make every period as useful as possible and no time wasting and doing things fast! Even if Mrs grills me I probably do deserve it cause she knows when I need to be pushed a bit more.. But I'm going to make up a weekly plan so I can stick to what I'm supposed to do that week and make sure it's done, just to keep an eye on myself and make sure I'm on track and doing good for time ect;
18/07/17
Today I managed to finally finish off my word montage piece! I love it and I'm so happy with how it looks. This piece contradicts itself with the mixed message it has which makes it intense, and from far away there is so much to process and so many different things that stand out so much that it's overwhelming which was what I was going for!
Also the fact that there is so many different meanings to different things on here and not everything has one meaning if you look closer... I'll have to put this on my board tomorrow and will now only have to finish my installation piece for my first panel! I feel a lot more on track now but the stress is still slowly creeping in so I need to seriously sit down and chat with Mrs about everything tomorrow!! Hopefully we'll come up with a game plan for things to get this underway and finished asap!! And while I'm in tomorrow I'm going to sit down and do some sketches and planning for my second panel... Might as well prepare myself before the term officially begins!!
Today was the first day back of Term! This is it! The final countdown to the end of the term/when this is due is going to be approaching fast and it's freaking me out! And especially with Leadership Camp & Assessment week going on this term I feel like it will be stressful! So I need to get stuck into my work and make every period as useful as possible and no time wasting and doing things fast! Even if Mrs grills me I probably do deserve it cause she knows when I need to be pushed a bit more.. But I'm going to make up a weekly plan so I can stick to what I'm supposed to do that week and make sure it's done, just to keep an eye on myself and make sure I'm on track and doing good for time ect;
18/07/17
Today I managed to finally finish off my word montage piece! I love it and I'm so happy with how it looks. This piece contradicts itself with the mixed message it has which makes it intense, and from far away there is so much to process and so many different things that stand out so much that it's overwhelming which was what I was going for!
Also the fact that there is so many different meanings to different things on here and not everything has one meaning if you look closer... I'll have to put this on my board tomorrow and will now only have to finish my installation piece for my first panel! I feel a lot more on track now but the stress is still slowly creeping in so I need to seriously sit down and chat with Mrs about everything tomorrow!! Hopefully we'll come up with a game plan for things to get this underway and finished asap!! And while I'm in tomorrow I'm going to sit down and do some sketches and planning for my second panel... Might as well prepare myself before the term officially begins!!
17/07/17Today I managed to finish my water colour piece and I'm actually pretty happy with how it turned out... I was tossing between colours for the background but black made the perfect fit for a "dark feeling" vibe like in every other pieces on my board besides the spray paint one... But every other one is surrounded by darkness metaphorically symoblising social media and it's world of darkness.. I also think I used good technique, well to the best of my ability..
Anyways, I know it's obviously nothing with 'wow factor' but I know I'm not the best with paints and drawing and that whole kind of side to Art... I'm more into the Designer and Photography kind side of things! But considering I hate this kind of media I like it.. I'd also never imagined it would only take me 3-4 days just working at it bit by bit... originally I thought it would take up weeks of the term so I thought I'd wait till the holidays so wow..
On Wednesday I'll be going into school and will put this piece onto my board and then talk to Mrs Clemence about my installation piece (the last piece for my panel) and we can sort out an action plan for that one for when school is back. Then hopefully we can also get some of my photos printed onto good photo paper if there isn't too many others there too.. But I need to finish this piece by the end of the first week back or the start of week 2.... I just really want to have this first panel done because I only have this term left to finish the whole thing, so I wanted to really focus on my second panel!! And I actually need to plan more for my second panel because I really only have one define piece I'm doing for that panel which will contrast with my montage word piece which I am yet to finish but it will be finished tomorrow.
16/07/17This week is the first week of my holidays and I've been trying to chip away at these last 3 pieces for my first Panel so that's over and done with and I can start on my second Panel. I drew up a little plan of both Panel's in my book but only the first Panel is definite so far!! I'm a little lost on what to do for my second Panel but I'll cross that bridge when it comes....
So for my installation piece I've cut out all the pictures in the size I want them and also tried to finish taping the white card for the back drop, so once schools back I can put them up. However, I ran out of the double sided tape so I'll just have to put up the ones I can and try find some more tape.. but Mrs Clemence will be in at school on Wednesday so I'll go in and talk to her about this piece an try get some of the images printed on good photo paper.
I was trying to come up with more words to put onto my word montage so I can finish that one and then also thought of some ideas that I can develop on for that in my second Panel.... but I also made a start on the watercolour piece which I found a little difficult as I'm not really confident using that kind of media.. but I gave it a go and will just need to finish the rest next week
06/07/17Today I picked the 3 images I'm going to use. I still need to print out 3 more (I'll do them tomorrow) but you get the idea... Over the holidays I'll have to tape all the backsides of the white paper for the backdrop behind the photos, so they're ready to go onto the windows so the photos can be properly printed and out up there within the first week back so I can figure out how to work a camera... then hopefully that piece will be done...
04//07/17
Today I gave Mrs one of my images and she printed heaps of enlarged images and I played around with them a bit a layed them out... I've decided that I will use 3 different images for each window.
03/07/17
This morning I decided that I was going to use the Foyer space for my piece! I wrote down some things in my book and drew up a quick picture.
30/06/17
So this week I've completed this much of this piece so far, there's a few gaps in there that I'm going to fill but I just wanted to put the main and important things on it first. So over the weekend I'm going to try finish putting them onto the paper and then I'm thinking over using some over sprayed spray paint to add to it not sure what colour though. The main idea of the piece is about the words that surround us on social media, thoughts and feeling that girls/women feel.
26/06/17Today I thought about space and what space I have access to here at school. So I walked around taking some photos on my phone of spaces that I could potentially work with.
Out of all the spaces I picked my favourite 4 that I will then have chose from which depends on which one I think I can develop more from compared to the others. I then sketched all the spaces out into my book to start off the brainstorming process of how I can develop on the space ideas, and how I can use the space effectively to make the impact and overall message obvious and raw. 
When deciding on a space it's important for me to be able to visualise what/how my message will come across and impact the viewer.
My message is that "Social Media's expectations of beauty forces us to not accept ourselves and people around us" which ties in with my theme/concept.
The 4 spaces were - The Music Room Foyer, A Block Corridor Window's, S Block Windows, D Block Entrance Wall.
3/4 of these spaces all have windows in common as you can tell. I think these spaces appeal to me the most because of their shape. Even though they are different sized rectangles it's almost like their frames could be frames of art, so I'm instantly interested in working with the spaces.
25/06/17Today I've been doing some research on “Installation Art” to understand this form of Art more and think about how I could work with it for one of my pieces. I wrote down some things in my book like - The ideas, impact and presentation of the message is more important than the quality of the finished product, Displaying 'isolated items' literally on a pedestal. ect; which is what I want to focus on with my own work!
After doing some research I started to really become interested in it and wanted to know more about the origin of this form of contemporary Art! And I soon found out that it was influenced by film/projectors, Architecture and Interior Design! Which I've thought about having carers in all of those areas and maybe that's why I'm really fascinated by it? But I definitely want to do an installation piece now!
So I also checked Mrs’s blog like usual and seen she‘d made a post about this and what sort of things to do that you can use for 1.3. So I researched the suggested artists from Mrs blog and picked the ones that interested me the most!'
Barbara Kruger - I thought that this type of art is something that I would love to do when I first saw it! The way she uses the space is amazing and effective! It feels like you’re literally surrounded by those words and it’s almost screaming at you and it’s hard to notice them! In a way it can make you feel uncomfortable afterwhile. I would love for my pieces to have this effect!
Marcel Duchamp - I thought that this artists art was interesting.. I was really intrigued seeing the repeated use of the string in his installations, although I wasn't sure on the overall purpose for it. Most of the art didn’t make total sense to me so I’m thinking he’s an abstract artist? But his work did interest me so I want to know more about it..At the start of the year I wanted to kinda tell a story of losing yourself in social media and then finding yourself but I’ve kinda changed my mind on that one…. I haven't really changed my theme/concept but I’m slightly only going to continue focusing on one main idea (which kinda tyes them all together anyway!) But basically the whole idea is focusing on “Social Media’s beauty expectations and not being able to accept yourself!" And I think that an installation piece could be the starting point of really zooming into the idea of that..to continue building onto for my second panel! If that makes sense.. Over the next few days I’m going to think about I could relate a space back to my concept and I’m going to think about the artists, find out more about them and their Art, get more in depth meaning behind their work and maybe how I can incorporate that with my own ideas.
23/06/17 Today I went into town and got some liquid latex and played around with it a bit! I managed to create some really sick looking cuts along my cheekbones to give the effect of just having had cosmetic surgery! (As well as adding a few things like the "guide lines" and nose bandage to give the realness to it!)
I loved the textures to it and thought it looked so gruesome and raw. I also tried to play around with my facial expressions and angles to it as well trying to create more of the realness sense as well, and of course you can tell I was wearing no make up in these, so you can really see the pores and imperfections of the skin. ( Also I'd like to note that it's a lot harder than it looks to photograph yourself ) I'm definitely considering this to be an installation piece to cover the rest of my first panel because then it will cover different medias for 1.3, and could influence pieces of my second panel.
23/06/17
Today I started working on my next piece! I was going to have a
photo montage of words surrounding a sad girl, but I think I just want to do the photo montage of words and maybe even have a brain in there subtly hidden somewhere? to show that it is a mind processing thoughts! I also started thinking about my body image pieces I did of Anna and Mrs thought it would be cool for me to do it as an installation piece. So I'm going to do some research over the weekend on it and then discuss it with her on Monday to see how we could make this work!
21/06/17Today was the first day in ages that I've actually felt like I'm getting somewhere!
My next few pieces are all in areas that I feel more confident in (make up & photography) so I think they may work better because I have more experience in those areas! First I put all my completed pieces onto my board and also my unfinished watercolour piece, just to get a rough idea on how things are looking and visualise how my next pieces can work in with that!Then I found a white back drop for my "cosmetic surgery" piece so the face stands more! Anna and Aimie were kind enough to be my models for these pieces. Here is one of them to the right, I need to edit the rest then I'll post them up too
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20/06/17Today I finally finished this piece! About time
I tell ya! Thanks to Mrs Clemence, Lachlan and Jordan they managed to talk me into making things not so perfect like I wanted them.. And I kinda thought about it and they were right.. Social Media makes people feel ugly so it should look ugly too! I'm really happy with how this has turned out in the end!
19/06/17
Over the weekend I finished most of the pieces accept for the Facebook one.. But today when I'd finished it and I had them all in my book, and I dropped the snapchat one somewhere and couldn't find it.. so I think the world hates me right about now and doesn't want this piece to be finished. I'll have to finish tomorrow that facebook and snapchat one, stick all the rest of them together and stick it all together then I'll finally be done. Then I can focus on the body image pieces!
This weeks progress has been slow burning because I just haven't been happy with how things were turning out so I had to keep redoing things. But I've completed three of the pieces, and this morning I focused on getting the last of them done. I might have to take some white paint to go over it! Will try to have this piece finished by Monday at the latest. I can't spend anymore time on this.
13/06/17
Today Mrs Clemence FINALLY got the spray paints! Bless the Lord :) I was so happy because I was able to get all of them done and spray painted so tomorrow I'll be going over another coat for ones that need more colour and then paint around the edges white!
09/06/17
Over the last two days I decided to just get started on finishing the ones I can until Mrs brings the spray paints in. Yesterday I started on two of them. After they dried, today I went over the white parts with paint to make the lines finer. I was only able to finish one but the other should be finished by Tuesday. I definitely want to get all of these stencils spray painted on Monday so they can dry out, and I can go over them with the white paint on Tuesday + the other two from today. Then Wednesday's lesson I'll stick them all together, put on the text and it will finally be complete !!06/06/17
Today Mrs was here but she forgot the spray paints, and I'd forgotten mine.. So I started to work on another piece apart of one of my series of works. Pretty much a Hating yourself vs. Accepting yourself kinda concept for this series of 2 pieces that will link to another series too, but they contradict each other which I hope people will realise.. But anyway, for this piece I'll be doing the "Hating yourself" piece first obviously because it fits with this 1st Panels theme. The background of it is going to be cut out words from newspapers and magazines. These words are the main important thing to this piece. When you first look at it some may question what it's even about, but until you look at the words you'll know. They represent the words many females feel or are made to feel. They are the words surrounding this girl and keeping her from being happy. Yes she does look beautiful but she isn't smiling, she isn't happy. For the last 2 lessons in Art Mrs Clemence has been away sick so I haven't been able to complete my spry paint piece. But I thought because I've never actually used spray paint before it would be good to have some practice first, so I thought I'd test it out...
Lets say that the first few times I tried this it didn't turn out so well and I was really bad.. I didn't even really know what I was doing. I'd realised sooner that I was to just close to it and that's why it looked so messy... And then after awhile I kept getting better the more I'd practiced!
I've set myself a goal to complete my first panel by the end of this term! By week 8 I want to have completed 5 pieces! So I can focus on sorting out my second panel because the dead line is September 29th. I'll start a countdown each time I blog and maybe it'll help motivate me to get these pieces done!
30/05/17Unfortunately today in art I couldn't finish my spray paint piece because Mrs Clemence wasn't at school, so she couldn't go and buy the spray paint. However I'm going to go get some tomorrow from Mitre 10 with my scholarship money!
So I improvised by doing some looks on myself that I want to start building on more for one of my next pieces! The whole idea has developed from the watercolour piece of the whole body image. With this piece I will be focusing more on the face but I want to do another piece on the body.
29/05/17
Today I stuck my 2 finished pieces onto my board with blue tack and just sat my non finished pieces there too just so I could visulaise what they will look like once they're completed.I also then cut out the stencil for my spray paint piece! I was happy with the first 2 of them but I'm going to re-design the last one!
Hopefully going to start spray painting tomorrow!!
26/05/17
Today Mrs printed off my Kylie Lip/Eye piece to put onto my board, I just need to cut it out and stick it onto the board. Over the weekend I'm going to finish drawing up the stencil so I can craft it out on Monday and hopefully be up to spray painting by Tuesday!
25/05/17 We missed out on Art today because of assembly. But I've done my final design of what I want this piece to look like. I still haven't got a new Art book but I've managed to find some more space in my book and drew up this rough drawing. I'm going to start laying it out onto the final stencil and get some spray paint for next week when I'll start this piece! Found some online for $12 each at Mitre 10, Mrs Clemence is going to get to get dark blue, red and yellow and I'll get the rest of them with my scholarship money.
23/05/17 This Afternoon in Art I had to find some free space in my book to draw some rough sketches for my next piece. I'm not sure if I want to lay it out like the first or second one.. The first one is more basic and the second one looks more interesting and intriguing to me personally... I think I'll just try come up with some more designs then I'll have to just choose 1 by Friday. I need to make sure I'm getting at least 2-3 pieces done throughout 2 weeks because the deadline feels like it's getting so close!
19/05/17Because I'm still sick, this morning I just sketched the lay out for the first panel on my board. So far I have managed to complete 2 pieces - the wood cut print and the photograph blend of the kylie lip/eye (the kylie lip/eye wasn't placed on the board because it still needs to be printed on good photo paper, but it will be under the woodcut print). The piece to the right is my watercolour piece that is still in the process. I want to play around with watercolour and get more familiar with it before I start it, so I'm going to get started on my next piece. It will be in the strip between the watercolour and woodcut pieces. It will be a mix of photo montage with spray paint and stencils. I'm thinking of maybe laying it out like a comic strip? Aiming to finish my first panel by the end of term 2 so I can focus on my second panel over the holidays for term 3 to start back and crack into it!
15/5/17 - 17/5/17
On Monday I went home sick and then was really sick with a virus for a few days and wasn't able to get much done. But I will have to go to school tomorrow because I can't get behind.
12/05/17
Today I got my grade back for my Art History paragraph answers and I got an Excellence!! I was super proud of myself because I'd worked really hard on it!
I've also started on a watercolour piece for my follio that represents how people can feel about themselves because of society's idea of beauty. I've started off with the outlining of it because I'm not so confident with this kind of media. I want to play around with it a bit more before I start using the water colour in case I ruined it.
Today I got my grade back for my Art History paragraph answers and I got an Excellence!! I was super proud of myself because I'd worked really hard on it!
I've also started on a watercolour piece for my follio that represents how people can feel about themselves because of society's idea of beauty. I've started off with the outlining of it because I'm not so confident with this kind of media. I want to play around with it a bit more before I start using the water colour in case I ruined it.
11/05/17
Today I continued to work on more bruising and another attempt at a scar.
I want to keep on practicing and practicing more so I'm able to keep learning something different each time. Like with what is working and what isn't, what to do and what not to do ect;
10/05/17
Today we didn't have Art but I was still trying to improve on my bruise skills and Anna wanted me to do her make up so she was my model for today. I also wanted to try bruising on a different skin tone to see how it it worked and what colour tones looked best, just to play around with it.
I think it turned out okay and looks subtle but effective. McKenzie made the comment "It looks like it's a bruise while it's healing" which is the look I want to portray because they would have just had cosmetic surgery and it either be healing and have yellowy green tones or it be still very swollen, puffy and purple toned.
09/05/17
Today Lavisha was kind enough to be my model and let me experiment some bruises on her.
I did two different ones on her legs but I was really only happy with one of them. (the one to the left)
The other one was a bruise around her face and I'm really glad with how it turned out. We did a test and walked around the school and a lot of people asked what had happened, so I think that ticks off 'Realistic'.
08/05/17
This week I've decided to focus on make up!
I want to make sure that I'm using different techniques to create realistic bruises and wounds with little use of make up products (lipstick and eye shadow).
Today I just started to mess around a bit with the make up on my hand and see what happened, because I've never actually used make up to create bruising or wounds before so it was all new territory for me.
Before trying anything I watched a few YouTube clips to get some tips and then I tried it myself. I wasn't so good at the beginning and was maybe a little too heavy with the product I was using. But the more I had practiced at it the better they were starting to get.
Tomorrow I will continue to do the same thing and try different kinds of bruising and try find someone to model for me.
04/05/17
Today when I talked to Mrs Cairns she suggested that I google searched "David Carson" who is an American Graphic Designer!
I printed some of his work that I liked and was inspired by, then wrote some ideas down into my book on how I could develop pieces like this that went with my theme.
02/05/17
Today in Art I started thinking about the space I have on my board. Trying to visualize a final picture in my head from all the ideas I have gathered in my book.
Today Lavisha was kind enough to be my model and let me experiment some bruises on her.
I did two different ones on her legs but I was really only happy with one of them. (the one to the left)
The other one was a bruise around her face and I'm really glad with how it turned out. We did a test and walked around the school and a lot of people asked what had happened, so I think that ticks off 'Realistic'.
08/05/17 This week I've decided to focus on make up!
I want to make sure that I'm using different techniques to create realistic bruises and wounds with little use of make up products (lipstick and eye shadow).
Today I just started to mess around a bit with the make up on my hand and see what happened, because I've never actually used make up to create bruising or wounds before so it was all new territory for me.
Before trying anything I watched a few YouTube clips to get some tips and then I tried it myself. I wasn't so good at the beginning and was maybe a little too heavy with the product I was using. But the more I had practiced at it the better they were starting to get.Tomorrow I will continue to do the same thing and try different kinds of bruising and try find someone to model for me.
04/05/17 
Today when I talked to Mrs Cairns she suggested that I google searched "David Carson" who is an American Graphic Designer!
I printed some of his work that I liked and was inspired by, then wrote some ideas down into my book on how I could develop pieces like this that went with my theme.
02/05/17
Today in Art I started thinking about the space I have on my board. Trying to visualize a final picture in my head from all the ideas I have gathered in my book.
01/05/17
Today was the first day back of Term 2.
For this week I'm going to continue planning more for my folio. I will also play around more with Photo montage, and do some research on David Carson and his work to help me .
Today was the first day back of Term 2.
For this week I'm going to continue planning more for my folio. I will also play around more with Photo montage, and do some research on David Carson and his work to help me .
27/04/17
Yesterday I did my first rough copy piece of "The teenage brain/thoughts" to see what worked and what didn't. So far the progress on that is panning out how I would hope it too, so I wanted to work on something a little different today.
Today I started planning some more ideas to explore for my follio on the "Cosmetic Surgery" side of things. If you've looked at some of my very first blog posts on here you'll know that my theme in 3 words is - Beauty, Society & Acceptance. All 3 of those words link in with this. The surgery gives you the power to be the 'beautiful and better version of you' that you hope'd it to be, because society told you that you weren't good enough before. Although you should've been able to just accept yourself for who you are to start with, because you'll still never be happy if you go through with it.
To me it is important that this is apart of my work this year to express my opinions towards this. Women shouldn't feel like the need to change their appearances because society and social media told them they weren't good enough.
This piece would be something I would spend more time on than some of my other pieces because I would need to understand special fx make up more. And it will be easier to start building up more ideas and thoughts towards this over a few weeks to really develop a good understanding of what I want to do with this and how I'm going to convey it.
This piece would be something I would spend more time on than some of my other pieces because I would need to understand special fx make up more. And it will be easier to start building up more ideas and thoughts towards this over a few weeks to really develop a good understanding of what I want to do with this and how I'm going to convey it.
26/04/17 Today I did my first rough piece of "the teenage brain/thoughts" to see how much space I was working with so it could help size the images more accurately for the final piece.
Although, I'm still not 100% happy with this quite yet, I know it is only my first attempt. I'm going to try some more layouts and play around with the Oneirology of it. I think everything else needs to be more exaggerated and layered over more. I also need to pick a background for inside the thought bubble. I was thinking black?
So far I love how the "Mean Girl Dolls" have turned out and I think it works really well! Like I said in my previous paragraph I want to explore more of the functions of the teens brain and how it forms images of different things combined together in our heads. Personally it is the only thing in this piece I'm not going to be changing.
24/04/17
Today I've started to work on my next piece, "the human/teenage brain". At the bottom of this piece will be a human brain coming out of a head (that will be photographed). It will then go into a thought bubble as you look toward the upper half of the painting, I will be using photo montage/ a collage of photos inside the thought bubble. In the middle will be a cellphone and all the arrows lead back to the cellphone. On the outer side round the bubble will be social media apps that connect to other things like, Vogue magazine, "Mean Girls", what you think about yourself, how you feel, heartbreak, falling into a habit of drugs ect; Everything is connected by arrows and it is the cycle of a teenage brain.
Once I've gathered all my photos I will start to create my first rough copy of this piece.
20/04/17
Thought I should start catching up with work today so I planned more for my board, so I can hopefully start creating more pieces within the next few days! So far I've managed to plan 3 different ideas that'll definitely be involved with my folio in some way. I've also tried to link the same ideas to them like my previous pieces.
1. The spit personality. The line is drawn in the middle because it is the barrier between both of her personality's. But neither one is good enough for society. She is constantly surrounded by negative put downs by others. She's either not wearing enough or wearing too much, she's either too skinny or too fat. She can never win. To me this piece is really powerful and I think it's important that it is one of my first pieces because I want to build on this throughout my board more. It may be a little heavy on the name calling and meaning behind it but it is so crucial to be able to tell the raw truth. This shows a women who is lost in society because she feels like she has to live up to the standard and isn't worthy. She doesn't know what to do because no matter what she does it doesn't feel good enough (like many women/girls). Therefore she is stuck in the middle, between the two.
2. Real vs. Fake. In this piece I'm using a mix of media. It will include - Make up, Photography, Photo montage, Fonts/Lettering. It will be an A4 sized piece that will be made up of 3 individual photos. The main photo that will take up more than half the page is from her nose downward. Her face is swollen from surgery, her nose is bruised and taped up. Cut and pasted onto the lips are the "Kylie Jenner" Lips like seen in my previous piece a few posts down. The other two are similar to one another because they are the opposites to another. One has a natural eyebrow and naked eye, and the other has a nice on fleek eyebrow and a cut out photo of the "Kylie Jenner" eye from that photo of my palette like the same photo from one of my previous pieces below. 
3. The human/teen brain. I've tried to link this back to my very first piece of the girl stuck in the cellphone behind bars, surrounded by social media. This piece is exploring more of that and the idea of a teens mental state of mind because of the effects society has on them. To me it shows you how a teen brain functions, what it processes, the deep thought of a teen and how it can be confusing, overwhelming and process so many emotions at once. It is a teens visual diary inside of their head. I'm thinking of using 'Photo montage' for this piece inside the "thought bubble" to emphasis a teens brain is very colourful, imaginative, and adventurous.
I didn't have Art for almost all classes during the last week of term, due to assemblies and other things going on those days ect; But I will be working on it over the holidays.
06/04/17
Today I blended the images together, giving it the Illuminati effect. I also wrote a few words on each image in my book and summed up a little bit of the meaning behind it.
05/04/17Today I photographed my Kylie Cosmetic make up bag and Kyshadow Palette, and put a few filters onto them. Edited some dark and light tones into the images.
04/04/17
This Afternoon in Art after a few more attempts at printing, I was finally happy with my final woodcut print for my board. I wrote a few words in my book explaining the prints purpose/meaning with my first attempt.
"This represents a woman/and or the entire human race feeling inside of a phone, constantly surrounded by social media, feeling trapped and jailed."
Tomorrow we don't have Art but on Thursday I'll scan it and make it smaller for fit A5 size onto my board.
03/04/17
Today I started my first print piece. It didn't turn out so great but it's only the first. After letting it dry for the rest of the period I cut out more of the wood so I could re print it tomorrow.
31/03/17 This morning I began cutting out the woodcut and had to then take it home and finish it later on that night, so it was ready by Monday to start printing.
I began planning a little bit of what I am working towards next. I'm not sure which media to use, maybe a mixture of everything into one big collage sequence?
Mrs Clemence had also suggested that I incorporated photo montage. So I'm thinking of working on a diverse few people with make up vs. no make up and connect it together life one face. For example, click onto the photo to the right.
30/03/17
In Art today I finished drawing onto my woodcut, ready to start carving it out tomorrow. I also sketched some ideas for my next pieces.
28/03/17
Today I've chosen to work on my first woodcut from my board plan and traced the lettering I'm using for both of my woodcuts. "Vogue" will be on the side of the phone along with social media app signs surrounding the phone with a girl stuck inside.
24/03/17
In Art this morning I asked Mrs Cairns what I could add or improve to my Art History essay on Frida Kahlo's Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace, Humming and Uni-brow to make it a Merit or Excellence. And thought about what could be the first thing I start on for my follio.
16/03/17
Didn't have Art yesterday. Today I added my third paragraph to my writing. It is a more in-depth description of the painting and what some of the things in the mean/represent/symbolise.
" The Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace, Hummingbird and Uni-brow was painted by Frida Kahlo in 1940. This was painted on canvas using oil paint. This painting is 47 cm x 61 cm. It is a small sized painting but it draws interest to it’s viewers. It is stylized realism but uses symbolic elements to express her emotions. In this painting you are faced with Frida Kahlo, emotionless. A thorn necklace is placed tightly around her neck held by a black spider monkey on her left shoulder. The thorns are piercing her skin and making her bleed. Around the necklace hangs a dead hummingbird with it’s wings stretched out far. On her right shoulder is a black cat sneakily getting ready to pounce. There are butterflies in her hair and around her, hovering around the bed of green leaves and trees.
Frida is the main point of focus in this painting, it is about her suffering. This is shown from her frontal pose to emphasise her immediate presence in the painting. This is also shown in her facial expressions. It is portrayed as if she is enduring the pain of physical and physiological wounds. It gives an instant feeling to it’s viewer. In this painting some believe Frida is comparing herself to Jesus Christ. The thorn necklace around her neck can be reference to the unraveled Christ’s crown of thorns. A dead hummingbird is hanging from the thorns across her chest, with outstretched wings that resemble her uni-brow. Frida was also strongly influenced by Mexican tradition and culture. In Mexican mythology the hummingbird is a symbol of luck, but Frida has used a dead hummingbird. Referring to her having no luck. But as you look toward the upper half of the painting you can see her hope for a new life in forms of butterflies and a green wall of leaves symbolising peace. "
Frida’s inspiration for this piece came from a rough time in her life where she’d developed many portraits. But in this specific painting it was influenced from her divorce with Diego Rivera. She had recently had an affair with lover Nickolas Murray. Although her and Diego’s marriage was troubled and were both unfaithful to one another. Less than a year after being married was when Diego had his first affair, and Frida had affairs with both men and women, including Diego’s mistress. They divorced in 1940, the same year she painted the portrait. But then, weirdly they remarried in the following year. Another reason that Frida painted it was because she was in a bad financial state at the time, and needed to sell the painting. Nikolas - her former lover, brought it from her.
14/03/17
Over the last 2 days I've put my second paragraph together and added it to the rest of my writing. It is about her inspirations and why she painted it.
" The Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace, Hummingbird and Uni-brow was painted by Frida Kahlo in 1940. This was painted on canvas using oil paint. This painting is 47 cm x 61 cm. It is a small sized painting but it draws interest to it’s viewers. It is stylized realism but uses symbolic elements to express her emotions. In this painting you are faced with Frida Kahlo, emotionless. A thorn necklace is placed tightly around her neck held by a black spider monkey on her left shoulder. The thorns are piercing her skin and making her bleed. Around the necklace hangs a dead hummingbird with it’s wings stretched out far. On her right shoulder is a black cat sneakily getting ready to pounce. There are butterflies in her hair and around her, hovering around the bed of green leaves and trees.
Frida’s inspiration for this piece came from a rough time in her life where she’d developed many portraits. But in this specific painting it was influenced from her divorce with Diego Rivera. She had recently had an affair with lover Nickolas Murray. Although her and Diego’s marriage was troubled and were both unfaithful to one another. Less than a year after being married was when Diego had his first affair, and Frida had affairs with both men and women, including Diego’s mistress. They divorced in 1940, the same year she painted the portrait. But then, weirdly they remarried in the following year. Another reason that Frida painted it was because she was in a bad financial state at the time, and needed to sell the painting. Nikolas - her former lover, brought it from her. "
This morning in Art I added a small description about the painting, so I can go into further detail about it and refer back to different things in the painting. For my next paragraph I'll talk about her inspirations for this and why she painted it.
First Paragraph:
" The Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace, Hummingbird and Uni-brow was painted by Frida Kahlo in 1940. This was painted on canvas using oil paint. This painting is 47 cm x 61 cm. It is a small sized painting but it draws interest to it’s viewers. It is stylized realism but uses symbolic elements to express her emotions. In this painting you are faced with Frida Kahlo, emotionless. A thorn necklace is placed tightly around her neck held by a black spider monkey on her left shoulder. The thorns are piercing her skin and making her bleed. Around the necklace hangs a dead hummingbird with it’s wings stretched out far. On her right shoulder is a black cat sneakily getting ready to pounce. There are butterflies in her hair and around her, hovering around the bed of green leaves and trees. "
06/03/17
Today in Art we began our first thumbnail sketch plan/notes for our folio. It is 99.9% likely to change over the next 3-5 months but It's good to start somewhere.
I'm also looking at using woodcut, water colour, photography and make up this year.This year my overall 'concept' and/or 'theme' is:
Feeling lost in society and not living up to the standard -
Then realising your worth and defying society's expectations -
Accepting your beauty/flaws and knowing your worth -
Loving yourself.
Then realising your worth and defying society's expectations -
Accepting your beauty/flaws and knowing your worth -
Loving yourself.
02/03/17 - 03/03/17
Over the last few days I have been gathering information from research I did on Frida Kahlo's "Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace, Humming bird an Uni-brow" for my Art History. Aiming for an Excellence - To demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the subject matter of art works.
Involving: coherently explaining the subject matter and using supportive evidence from the Art works.
I've managed to start my opening paragraph on a Goggle Doc:
" The Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace, Hummingbird and Uni-brow was painted by Frida Kahlo in 1940. This was painted on canvas using oil paint. This painting is 16x24. It is a small sized painting but it draws interest to it’s viewers. It is stylized realism but uses symbolic elements to express her emotions. "
03/03/17No Art today. However, I brainstormed more ideas. Thinking about techniques, light and dark tones, what media to use ect; Trying to piece different ideas together that could create a series of work. Also thinking of more creative ways to use symbols - like Frida Kahlo - to give the viewer a strong emotional response.
28/02/17
Today Mrs Clemence was teaching us. She gave us 10-20 minutes to quickly draw up some thumbnail sketches in our books of a Level 1 folio exemplar of a series of sequences. We had to circle the series of sequences and explain why they are linked and connected to one another - to refer to when we are planning our folio.
16/02/17
Today I'm still continuing with my re-search on my artist model.
I do need to ask Mrs Clemence and/or Mrs Cairns about some of the questions on the research sheet that I don't yet quite understand and Google isn't making them any easier to understand.
14/02/17
Today I was still drawing rough sketches and adding more ideas to my page as I think of them, just so I have more than enough to work with in case some don't follow through. You can never have enough ideas!
I picked Frida Kahlo as my artist model using her self portrait with the thorn necklace to do my research on. I have only just begun answering questions as I've had to gain an understanding on the actual question because I've had no clue what some of them meant.
I love this portrait and I feel like I can relate to it on a certain level. The blank expression and use of dark colours strongly conveys a sense of Powerlessness and unhappiness.
I want to some how incorporate the feeling of powerlessness into my art this year.
13/02/17
Today I came up with a few more ideas and have a very strong idea of my theme this year in art!
I'm still thinking of more ideas in case I have an 'Einstein' moment and come up with the best idea.
But I definitely know the direction I want to go into.
My 3 words are: "Beauty, Society, Acceptance"My story is simple but with many concepts to it.
But to sum it up in few sentences it would be:
"Don't feel like you have to change your appearance to be happy. Don't feel like you have to wear make up to feel pretty. Accept yourself, love your beauty and your flaws. Don't compare yourself to a cover girl because its not reality. Don't judge your self because you don't feel Instagram worthy. We are all different and we are all beautiful in our own ways."
10/02/17
In Art this morning I began drawing some rough sketches in my book of the Cindy Sherman and Frida Khalo portraits and the Pop Art that had inspired me, and I wanted to in-corporate it into my art this year.
I do still need to come up with a few more ideas that tie in with the story that I'm telling.
I'm thinking of going along the lines of social media, and how is brainwashes young girls about what is "beautiful" and "accepted" and that we need to accept ourselves for who we are as young woman.
And I want to show both sides of what we see vs. the reality of being "instagram famous" and what not. The life's we wish to dream, are they really all they seem? The life we think is happiness, is it really what we see? Or is it all just an act?
For example using Cindy Sherman's two faced "model vs. clown" like portrait conveys both sides of the story. What we see - is what we wish we could have and be and what is real - is the things we don't see.
Also using Frida Kahlo's portrait with the bright variety of colour would have a blue center of sadness, midnight tears and a dark energy of unhappiness that shows us as the beautiful ora around her who would love and wish to be her, don't know that she lives in a world of a cold and lonely sadness.
I do still need to come up with a few more ideas that tie in with the story that I'm telling.
I'm thinking of going along the lines of social media, and how is brainwashes young girls about what is "beautiful" and "accepted" and that we need to accept ourselves for who we are as young woman.
And I want to show both sides of what we see vs. the reality of being "instagram famous" and what not. The life's we wish to dream, are they really all they seem? The life we think is happiness, is it really what we see? Or is it all just an act?
For example using Cindy Sherman's two faced "model vs. clown" like portrait conveys both sides of the story. What we see - is what we wish we could have and be and what is real - is the things we don't see.
Also using Frida Kahlo's portrait with the bright variety of colour would have a blue center of sadness, midnight tears and a dark energy of unhappiness that shows us as the beautiful ora around her who would love and wish to be her, don't know that she lives in a world of a cold and lonely sadness.
09/02/17
Today I was at home sick but managed to start linking more ideas with photos from artists like Cindy Sherman and Frida Kahlo.Writing key notes and different ways on how I could interpret these images into my own art work this year.
Picking my favorite pieces of each artist's work and then printing the images to help draw from in future - as a reference to use for visual planning latter on throughout the year. Finally beginning to have a stronger idea of the concept I'm going to focus on this year.
07/02/17
Focus: "Why am I making Art?"
Added more detail to my plan on things that I care about.
Tried to link different ideas together to develop a more visual concept of what I want my board to look like.
Began researching the artists Cindy Sherman and Frida Kahlo. who are artists known for conceptual and self portraits.
Also began research on "Portrait Photography" Starting to gain more of an understanding on Portrait Photography. Looked at the different lights and lighting plans.
* Highlighted all Key Words/Notes and/or Things I may want to do with my board this year *
05/02/17
Set up this blog.
Set up this blog.
02/02/17
First day back in Art, brainstorming ideas.
Starting with things that I care about, then branching off into more specific detail and deeper meaning.
Shardey this is great work. you are working so carefully here and I'm very impressed. I look forward to seeing your next instalments :-)
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ReplyDeleteI am very impressed with the level of your critical thinking. You show a maturity that is commendable and like Mrs Clemence I am looking forward to seeing how your thinking and your work evolve.
Good on you Shardey! I'm really excited to be able to see your wonderful art work online and am excited to see where it'll progress in the next few years. I could be tempted to buy some of your work later on :)
ReplyDeleteso thanks for calling me out there!!! i will forgive eventually (sulk sulk) good work going on, your top image right now is broken. not showing up.
ReplyDeletei like the lines of those windows in the auditorium foyer - they look like full length mirrors. i wonder how you could use that idea too, though the confrontational nature of a block would be wicked cool! i love that your art work is like a visual smack to the face like this, as the poor girl looks like she has been smacked in the face in the photos, which is their point. plastic surgery leaves you 'beaten and bruised'. And it could also be considered another form of domestic control (as is domestic violence) in certain contexts.
ReplyDeleteYeah I think The foyer would give a cool "Art Gallery, mirror image vibe" and the natural element to A Block would definitly contradict the images which would be cool to play around with! I'll spend all of this week to try finish this piece hopefully....
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ReplyDeleteReading through the entirety of this, there is an abundance of evidence for 1.2 and 1.3.
The makeup artistry and photos that follow could actually be evidence for another standard called 1.5.
I will share the assessment schedule with you tonight with grades, evidence and 'next steps'.