Exam

Exam Final Piece

These are my three final pieces for the exam topic. I decided to paint each one in a slightly different way, illustrating the main focus points of the theme. The first shows the outside decay from nature on the building, the second shows the clean lines running throughout the inside and the third shows the glass in between, distorting the view from outside to inside.

Rust Sculpture

I rusted steel rods to show the effects of natural erosion on this man made object. I then put them together in this sculpture, demonstrating the straight lines which link to the perfect parallel lines of the building images.

Exam Prep Sheets

I have used a variety of medias for my exam topic to develop from my original photos following the theme of inside, outside, in between.

First I used oil paint to present the images in my painting style. I then printed an etching several times concentrating on highlighting different aspects of the etching each time. Also I edited some of my original images to exaggerate both colour and structure.

I used a palette knife for these three paintings. It creates further texture and depth to the paintings while still retaining structure through the lines of the palette knife.

I drew one of the photos as a biro drawing to illustrate the detailed structure within the building.

Exam topic photos

 I took these photos for my exam topic of "inside, outside, in between."

 These building images show the decay of the outside of the man made structure while the glass in between protects the inside from the same erosion.

The rich blue and green colours here contrast well with the harsh metal lines of the buildings, while the glass throughout connects the two in the photos.

Personal Study

Through my AS work, I used a range of different themes as inspiration. I chose subject matters such as time and Darwinism, the body and seascapes. The variety of themes pursued has allowed me to use a great variety of mediums to express my ideas. For the project of time I used a mixed media piece with a working clock and Darwin’s ‘ape to man’ to show the insignificance of this particular evolution in contrast to the extent of time given by intertwining cogs. I looked at Dali’s ‘Persistence of Time’ and ‘Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion’ to see how others had depicted time in art. I took a very different path when I looked at the body. Instead of looking at structural aspects, I instead chose to add cloth to the body and paint in smooth lines, giving an alternative outcome to my previous work. I attended many life drawing sessions to improve my drawing and observation skills then developed what I had done by producing oil paintings of the body and fabric. I concentrated on the soft lines of both the flesh and the material that I had spent time observing in life drawing to create Pre-Raphaelite inspired images. I transferred the skills I have acquired in life drawing to new subject matter. For example, these skills have allowed me to achieve detailed Biro drawings and etchings of nets and ropes found in a harbour as part of my seascape work. I looked to the minute details of the harbour, as well as the larger picture to achieve seascapes, showing the contrast between the smooth lines of the ropes, the geometrical shapes on the masts of the boats and the gentle movement of the sea. As I have looked at a balanced range of natural subjects and mechanical/structural subjects, through my personal study, I would like to look at the relationship between the two in art history.

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