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Painting – Jackson Pollock

Painting – Jackson Pollock

Dead Roses

Painting (a technique I want to look into)

Jackson Pollock was an expressionist artists who lived in America. within this movement he worked very closely to abstract. (1912-1956)

These works are very colourful with burst of different vibrant colours. This really gives off the idea of how emotionally he could feel. For example the one of the left could be seen as more happy due to the idea of the yellow being a prime colour within this piece and on the other side you have a more dull and black and white look. This gives me the feeling that he was more natural and now really happy.

These are some of the images that really do inspire me. Within the drawing class, doing the massive paintings (I did a person in black and white) i really likes letting go and wanting to work in a loser style that was also a lot bigger than my comfort zone of A4.

From this i am going to use his style of dripping dragging and splashing paint on to the paper and see what I can make from this. I want to make a lot more than one so i can experiment with them

  • by painting objects onto them where i think they would fit.
  • collaging them
  • moving the paint to make an image with on it.
  • using the splatted paint to create an image.

This is some of the things that I want to try out within this part of the project. I want to see what works best and what I like.

Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Jackson Pollock
https://hero-magazine.com/article/40581/jackson-pollock-takes-over-the-tate-liverpool-with-the-sinister-paintings-that-shook-up-the-art-world/
introduction – plaster

introduction – plaster

Dead Roses

Using clay and object to create a plaster tile

With in the first week we got inducted into clay and plaster. As we where told to not have our phones, unfortunately I did not get any photos on the process of making this piece. I wish I had.

At first I use a rolling pin to be able to make a square shape from the clay about 5 cm thick. Then I used random materials and object within the room to create shapes, textures and patterns to make marks within the clay. Some of the materials I used was; screws, nuts, pinecones, chain, my finger and more.

When I was happy with this I used a knife to cut out a rectangle about 13cm by 14.5cm. What I cut off I used as walls on the edges of the rectangle. I used slip to make sure that there was no hole, where leaks could get out.

Then I moved on to making the plaster, to make the plaster I added 1.5cm of water into a bowl and I started to sprinkle in the plaster. When sprinkling in the plaster I had to keep going till the plaster would stop dissolving into the water, because its to saturated. This would mean I could count to 10 and the plaster would still sit on the top of the water and be white (instead of a grey-ish colour)

Once it was at this point I used my hand to stir the plaster together and thicken it. When it was at a good consistency, then I poured the plaster into my clay mould. all I had to do then was wait for it to heat up and set. Then when it was ready, I removed the clay and carefully. I used a surform to clean up the edges. I also used a slightly wet tooth brush to clean the plaster tile.

Some prosses of my work…..

The final piece…..