cps – A DEAD LETTER

𝙳𝙼𝚄 Local Volunteering – Session 2 (colour wheel)

22 January 20227 March 2022Dead Roses

Volunteering

The classes start at 10am but the volunteers turn up at 9:30am to help set up, this time all it involves was putting chairs and table. When the children (30 children) turned up we helped give them name tags and their own sketchbook, so they can see all their work together. Once they where sat down the teacher started to explain what words we use to explain different aspects of colour and what the children would be doing that day.

The sheets below are the handouts for that day, we explained what the words mean on the sheet to the left. These sheets really helped the children as they got an example of the colour wheel they had to make.

The first task the children had to completer was to fill their own colour wheel with paint, for this we gave them a paint pallet with yellow, red and blue in and told them they have to make the colours and fill in each colour. This gave the a great experience of what primary colours ( primary colours are a set of colours that can be mixed to make all other colours) they would have to mix to make the ones they need for the colour wheel.

The other sheet we explained to the children is how colour can be used to express feelings, with the main two being how you can make a painting sad or happy. this lead to paint being thrown at the paper but in colour themes of how they where feeling at the time, once they had time to explore both of them sheets the next task was to draw themselves.

When drawing themselves they were given a sheet about proportions and showing how to draw a generic face. this was the hardest bit for them as they had to draw it and think about how they could do it as close as they could to reality, their parents helped them and it led to some very different outcomes. A lot of the older children did amazing with this part and stunted a lot of us on how well they managed to proportion the head. (one even doing a full body). Once they had done some drawing, some of the children decided to start doing backgrounds and this took form in beaches and living rooms with TVs.

This is not the original sheet they used, just an example I found on the internet

𝘛𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘖𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘓𝘪𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳

14 November 202114 November 2021Dead Roses

Contextual and professional studies

I have done some research online and also a little in person on opportunities of tattooing apprenticeships within Leicester. 3 weeks ago I was talking to a person who works at Devils own tattoo shop, about getting an apprenticeship, She mentioned they are looking for an apprenticeship in January and I should hand in my CV. I would love to do this and start my career but this would mean having to move into the city, possibly just for summer or even longer. I would also not have time to do both the apprenticeship and university. Therefore won’t be taking this opportunity.

𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦…

When looking online –

found a facebook posted 4 weeks ago looking for a tattoo apprenticeship below is the post and the link.

I sent them a message to find out more about apprenticeships

I will update this post if I get a reply from them. I am going to do more research on tattoo apprenticeships and how to get a job within the industry (this will be on another post).

when looking online I was really surprised and confused, there was loads of places looking for an apprentice. This would also be a good place to get one due to the shop being in a city there would be a lot of traffic coming in and out of the store. But I was confused as I find looking online for places hard to get around because of going through all the websites and applications forms.

therefore like the first shop (devils own) I was talking about I found it a lot better going into the shop to look both at the atmosphere and also just understanding what they are looking for.

as I live in the country side I have to travel to the closes town to get a tattoo and this town is very small, there are only two tattoo shops. one of these I have been getting my tattoos done there for 2 years now, I have also spoken to them many times about apprenticeship and my plan is to send in my CV and some work in 2023 July to hopefully see if they will take me as an apprentice (due to this being the first summer after university so I’ll have plenty of time).

𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯

to also boots my search on possibly jobs and offers I made a linked in account so that I can look for jobs but also will be notified when an offer is put up. I have joked about 5 different job websites that send me emails about new job offers. I’m looking at both tattooing jobs but also some jobs I can do along side the apprenticeship as while learning I won’t be making a decent amount of money to support myself. I also think some apprenticeships I will have to pay to be taught.

CPS – Contemporary artist and Historic Artist In Context

10 January 202122 October 2021Dead Roses

Kim Noble

She is an painter who suffers Dissociative identity disorder. she has done several solo and group exhibitions. She was born in 1960 but didn’t start painting till 2004 due to having art therapy. Within her life she is in and out of hospital a lot. she also has a book and has had many tv and radio interviews.

Kim expresses her feeling through her art, her work shows deeply how she feels trapped within her headspace. Her art is mainly dark tones with the main subject of a person/people. These people are shown as trapped or chained.

On her website she has her work. Each person has different art so she puts on there under the name of the person. Each person has a completely different style but all seem to have the same amount of pain in the work.

http://www.kimnobleartist.com/about.html

Francisco Goya

Born in 1746 Francisco was well known for his etchings, One of the etching that stood out to me was The sleep of reason produces monsters (1799). he was known as a master within art. His art was later defaced and use within the Chapmans brothers work.

His work normal become a lot more intense and deeper after he became deaf from an illness this could be due to a mental illness he gained after losing his hearing. After this his mental and physical health got much worse.

His art is mainly dark and a lot of the art etching to do with problems like war. He shows a very scripted message of what he though about the world. much of his works evolve demon looking creates, bats, people and owls.

https://www.spainculture.us/city/philadelphia/witness-reality-and-imagination-in-the-prints-of-francisco-goya/
https://www.parkwestgallery.com/7-creepy-art-from-francisco-goya-los-caprichos/
https://www.alamy.com/the-disasters-of-war-a-series-of-etchings-by-francisco-de-goya-1746-1828-plate-39-grande-ha-image212468674.html

Cps – Artist talks

9 January 202122 October 2021Dead Roses

Lee Maelzer

Her past life was not the best with split parents then they got ill, but also drug addiction. She original grew up within London and dropped out of school at 13, at 18 she moved to Vancouver. She did end up moving back to London and getting on to a saint martins foundation and BA course.

Her main works are paintings but she did dive into sculpture when the drug addition was too bad. her work has a strong reference to location, this has involved small flats but also abandoned buildings. This then gives the viewer the idea of is it real or invented. She does look at photos but she doesn’t allow her self to look at the photo for too long as she believes it creates a negative effect on the art. The way she makes her art is she will build it up from the dark shadows to the highlights. within her painting she is always exited to do her work and always has an idea on where she wants to head next.

I really like her work due to how she has a mixture of dreaminess and in her head visions but also realty, I feel as though this shows a lot of her emotions about moving home a lot. One thing that stands out if cause she moves a lot she put a lot of objects within her work this to me stands out as her missing things or clamming they are emotionally hers.

https://ambitmagazine.co.uk/art/fortunes-entrails
https://arbpublicart.wordpress.com/edgelands/lee-maelzer-yellow-curtain-oil-on-canvas-101-x-76-cm/
https://www.thefuturecanwait.com/2011-lee-maelzer-artwork2.htm

CPS – Job Opportunity

5 January 202122 October 2021Dead Roses

tattooing is a hard job to get into due to having to have a lot of experience before starting, this requires getting a placement within a shop to be able to watch and learn and then to acquired a licence.

The starting rate of a tattooist can be around £40-50 an hour but as you improve you could earn around £37,000 (other websites say in 2020 it was £60,000+)a year.

What Is the Average Entry Level Wage for Tattoo Artists? (chron.com)

This website has a lot of information’s about income within tattooing and what you could expect on different levels.

I am interested because it is something I have always wanted to get into. i think they are an amazing way for people to express themselves, i feel art is not just something to look at on a wall and if i can help someone express themselves through art then I want to.

Tattoos in the Workplace Statistics (stapaw.com)

Tattooing is a growing industry with more younger people wanting tattoos. tattooing has been around for years and like fashion can go in and out of style.

Before coming to university I was looking into a two week course to learn the basics of tattooing there is a few ways to get into the job and some people will just go into a shop and learn but others will take courses like this to speed it up.

https://tattootrainingacademy.co.uk/2-week-tattoo-training-course—diploma-level-2.php

This is a company that does that course within this you can learn a good amount of everything to do with tattooing and gives lots of opportunities after. (e.g employment or even going self employed)

How to Become a Tattoo Artist: Career Guide (study.com)

This website explains about the exams and apprenticeship you have to take in order to get a licence. this also has a step to step of how to the job.

Cps – Artist Statement

14 December 202022 October 2021Dead Roses

My work explores many controversial subjects, this includes how I feel/ what I am going through. A lot of my work looks into the relations between life and death but also the beauty and ugliness of them.

I’m influenced by human biology and emotions and nature. Things I research are finding out how the body works/looks, also on how the mind can be. Sometimes also religion. my art includes using nature to show the good and bad within humans. I like to use any medium to get my context across, This can cause many debates around my works.

Some big artist influence are; Andy Goldsworthy, Travis Bedel, Sun Hyuk Kim. as they work around the same ideas that I do.

Growth 14.12.2020 (Name)

The sculptures are three clay heads from the smallest being 2.5cm x2.7cm to the biggest being 11cm x 8cm. They are plain but have the contrast of the bright plants. The materials I used within the piece is clay and natural materials.

The context of the piece is how a headspace can change. This shows three stages of life; young , teenager and adult. Something that informed the work is life experience. I though about how my younger self felt about herself, then I though about how she feels now.

This work is different from pasts art is this is a series when normally I would have one final piece. Also Most my work is mix-medium but I forced on sculptor for this. I could make new improvements by scaling up the heads. this would allow for more expression through the plants.

I feel my art is intended for everyone but I defiantly feel adults will understand more. As i feel a younger mind wont yet understand who they are or the growth of the mind when you get older.

CPS – Inside of Art Body Art

29 November 202022 October 2021Dead Roses

Contextual and professional studies

An Article from the ‘MoMAlearning |The Body in Art”

This talks about how in the 1960s and 1970s the female form where being used within the western art, within this time women where claiming back their bodies within their art.

This site gives information about The Nouveau Realisme, where the artists started to look into using their bodies to preform art. This was both through photography’s and performances. One piece involved naked women painted the canvas with their bodies.

Artist That Use Body Art…..

Yves Klein

Yves uses bodies a lot as his paintbrush. he uses the body to express his art and also to show within photos. his use with the body is very inspiring as this is a new and developed way of using the body within art.

Carolee Shneeman

Carolee Schneemann e il mercato | Artribune

This video is Carolee explaining why she thought of this method of making her art. She does not consider herself a body performer but her performances have a sense of intimacy.

Japan’s Gutai group

This is a group of artist founded after the war in japan. it was formed in 1954 by Jiro Yoshihara. The younger artist within this group looked in to body art.

This video talks about a range of this artist work. also how/why she made them.

Design, Advertising & Creative Inspiration – Digital Synopsis

Sadamasa Motonaga (1922 – 2011) | Work | abstract, All other categories of objects | Christie’s

SADAMASA MOTONAGA (JAPANESE, 1922-2011) | TAPA TAPA | Paintings, Modern | Christie’s

Sakuhin, 1964 – Sadamasa Motonaga – WikiArt.org

Metaphor and Art

‘Action Painting’ gets us in a mess. (creativepool.com)

Being an artist: Janine Antoni – Active Voice (anniepaul.net)

The Beautiful Trap: Janine Antoni’s Body Art – Border Crossings Magazine

Sadamasa Motonaga (1922 – 2011) | WORK, 1961 | abstract, All other categories of objects | Christie’s

CPS – Art Materials (Tian Haisu)

28 November 202022 October 2021Dead Roses

Contextual And Professional Studies

For this I’m looking into an artist and their method on making art. so I’m am looking into Tian Haisu.

Tian Haisu is a young Chinese painter who makes art by land skating, she makes black and white paintings. She create massive scale art by using her inline roller blades this combines her love for ice-skating and art. that have a tub of paint that slowly spill onto the wheels. she uses the front wheel to create the smaller details of the piece. her paintings are black and white landscapes.

This is a video of the prosses of her making the art. it also shows how she uses the roller blades to make this art.it takes you through her making her paintings called blood-lane-line it is 40 feet tall by 20 feet wide, most of her works are on massive scales. as she does her paintings she will fill up the tub on her boots. This piece was present in the California Institute of arts, It was also a really liked piece within the show.

Before she makes her art she will sketch them out as a design. Then she will go in with the roller blades. These are some photos of her making her work. The next photos are of her beautiful works. her works are both simple yet stunning. Due to the fact she keep its in a traditional style of painting.

She uses her unique way of making art, to make traditional Chinese paintings. she used her whole body to create the art as she has to use her balance to se able to use the roller skates.

her art includes a range of mountains, trees, water and sometimes buildings that are within the landcape she is painting.

This is website that explains a little more about how she makes her work and what she uses for her art. This really shows how you don’t have to use normal tool to make traditional art.

References for photos…..

Chinese landscape paintings created with roller skates by Tian Haisu | Chinese landscape painting, Landscape paintings, Chinese landscape (pinterest.co.uk)

Chinese landscape paintings created with roller skates by Tian Haisu (designer-daily.com)

Watch This Chinese Artist Use Rollerblades to Make Landscape Art | Scene360

Chinese artist uses roller skates to create traditional Chinese paintings – Chinadaily.com.cn

Artist Creates Traditional Chinese Landscape Paintings Using Roller Skates (mymodernmet.com)

CPS – outside of art Mini Research Project

14 November 202022 October 2021Dead Roses

Contextual And Professional Studies

For this I wanted to keep it related to my art, so I’m going to use it to help my painting project as well. I’m going to look in to the sciences and physical way that a human ages over time. (I wanted to look in to cancer but I know a lot about this so I decided to go for something I know less about).

How A Person Ages Over Time – online research

The cognitive function (to start getting “old”). changes a lot within our bodies. What I want to research is growing old but I want to focus on blindness.

Presbyopia (Age Related Eyes Sight Lose)…..

its where the lens of the eye will stiffen, so it wouldn’t be flexible enough to focus on close range objects. This starts around 40s and increasingly get worse until around 65s year old.

Another eye condition is Fuchs’ dystrophy. This is less common but also can be caused by aging and drugs. This is where the outer layer of the eye thickens leaving the eye with a cloudy look to others.

This interested me because it could show how in hindsight ,when we are older, we regret things from when we where younger. This would help me show a humans lifetime within my work as it links the young and old together.

This is a video talking about how it feels to lose vision over age, it focuses on how one made got a lot of anxiety over this.

I found this interesting, This is an artist who talks to blind people to create what they think their loved ones look like. It shows how blind people see without their eyes and its not far off the true look of the subject.

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/goingblindoriginal

Watch Going Blind (Original Version) Online | Vimeo On Demand on Vimeo

This is just a trailer but I found it interesting as it shows how blindness can effect anyone, but the full videos is a documentary on blindness.

Opinion | Feeling My Way Into Blindness – The New York Times (nytimes.com)

This is an article from The Newyork Times about a person who had gone blind with age. It talks about how he has struggled with it, They also give some ways to help the blind from their view of having it.

Artist Research – using time and aging in their work…..

Marna Clarke – “Time As We Know It”

Marna Clarke is a photographer, she lives in new York. she has a project called “Time As We Know It” this is a project where she takes photos for aging. The main subject of the photos is herself and her partner.

The Project…..

She started the project around 5 years ago. The whole point was to document her “growing old”.

Keith Salmon

Keith Salmon is a blind artist. his work includes bright colours to make landscape pieces

10 Remarkable Paintings by Blind and Visually Impaired Artists | Scene360Sutable shades of colour and complex compositions

These stood out to me as they still give off the look of a landscape yet he is blind. The vibrant colours and brush work really make this piece put together and creates texture.

10 Remarkable Paintings by Blind and Visually Impaired Artists | Scene360

This was a website I found that had works from blind artist, so i think i will use it for my project as well.

links to Marna Clarke…..

https://galleryrouteone.org/2012/11/marna-clarke/

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/113645590580578668/

https://www.healthline.com/health/brain-atrophy#:~:text=Brain%20atrophy%20%E2%80%94%20or%20cerebral%20atrophy%20%E2%80%94%20is,brain%20cells%2C%20but%20this%20is%20a%20slow%20process.

http://www.fractionmagazine.com/marna-clarke#canvas

https://www.msdmanuals.com/en-gb/home/older-people%E2%80%99s-health-issues/the-aging-body/changes-in-the-body-with-aging#:~:text=%20Changes%20in%20the%20Body%20With%20Aging%20,aging%20%28see%20also%20Hearing%20Loss%20%29.%20More%20

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/presbyopia/symptoms-causes/syc-20363328

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13093992?filter=EditorPicks

CPS – Gallery research (Yorkshire sculptor park).

5 November 202022 October 2021Dead Roses

Contextual and Professional studies

For this task I need to find a gallery to research and then write about, this needs to be a fairly well known gallery. So I’m going to the the Yorkshire Sculptor Park.

Yorkshire Sculptor Park…..

The sculptor park is in Yorkshire(This is in west Bretton near Wakefield) and is a massive park of 500-acre with over 650 sculptors and basically all of them are for sale. They showcase the works and this helps them be brought,so evetime you go see it there will be changed and new art rotating all the time.

Some Images Of The Sculptors…..

These are some of the piece from the sculptor park.

What Type Of Galleries Are They…..

This Gallery is an outside park, full of sculptors form a range of different artist. This makes the park very different as you can walk around the art and in a sense become part of it as well. This also allows you to apricate the work a lot more due to the pure size and details of each work.

When Was the Park Set Up…..

The sculptor park was established within 1977. The founder of the park is Peter Murray. He studied in both art and teaching. He has loads of his own art within other galleries, as he mainly works within 2D.

Who Is The Main Curator And Exhibitions That They Organised…..

Peter Murray is also the main curator and has put on many exhibitions there, these are some of the key ones;

Henry Moore and landscape
Andy Goldsworthy
Barbara Hepworth
James Turrell

and a lot more.

They have also won a South Bank Show Award for Visual Arts as well

What Are Some Of There Exhibitions…..

One of the biggest Exhibitions is of Henry Moore as this is one of the biggest collection of bronze work that is outside. All the Exhibitions are outside, In a open air galley. This gives it a some what unique look and feel to it.

as well as a lot of other artist works and sculptures, this park also includes a deer park so had a lot of attention for that too.

What Reviews Have They Had…..

A lot of small artists and bloggers have reviews the park and wrote up about it (as this is how I have found out some of the information). There is also really good views on trips adviser and other website like Facebook.

I cant find any newspaper articles on it or any tv shows or reviews on it. So I would say it doesn’t have any major worldwide reviews or articles on it but does have smaller publishes on it.

I was planning to go to the part but as we have just be put into lockdown i have decided to wait till next year (2021).

Image Reference Links…..

https://aestheticamagazine.com/kaws-yorkshire-sculpture-park-wakefield/

Photo Tour: York Sculpture Park

YGD visit YSP (Yorkshire Sculpture Park)

Research Links…..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Murray_(Yorkshire_Sculpture_Park)

https://ysp.org.uk/exhibitions

YGD visit YSP (Yorkshire Sculpture Park)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire_Sculpture_Park