Asked to make a detailed painting of weeds on a mid-tone base, obviously I went for black cartridge, big brushes, and an animation. If there are any resonances, they’re Dutch vanitas (faint), and Kim Baker’s updated version of same (a little louder). Continue reading Weeds – painting animated in Pixaloop/MotionLeap
Recommended artists: Mimei Thompson — home Thomas Hall – 5 Artworks for Sale on Artsy Richard Dadd 1817–1886 | Tate This exercise, as part of a focus on the local environment, asks for a detailed painting of weeds in the … Continue reading Part 5, exercise 5:1 – weeds
All artwork and manipulated images (c) suzanne conboy-hill 2020. The art work they came from is on my dedicated UPM module blog here, here, and here. Continue reading 21st century tondos
I made the decision to submit this piece as the assignment. Above is the version digitally contained in a black surround using Paintshop Pro. The raw images are below. None has been digitally enhanced. The developmental process, including early stages … Continue reading Part 4, Assignment 4 – interior in tondo format
For logistical reasons, it made more sense earlier to deal with written elements of the course after completing the practical work. Some of those conditions still pertain but seem likely to persist due to current lockdown conditions delaying delivery of materials, and so I’ll need to make some logistical and physical accommodations to progress. One thing to emerge from this upside down and back to front way of doing things is a sudden realisation that following up the work of other artists is beginning to make sense in terms of my own practice, and another is that this has most … Continue reading Formative feedback, Part 3
I know, probably illegal! These came about as part of my degree course but absolutely lent themselves to a bit of digital jiggery pokery via Pixaloop for iPhone/pad. The art work they came from is on my dedicated UPM module blog here, here, and here. Continue reading Tinkering with tondos
Again focusing on the circular format, this requires a painting of one of the previous given selection of items. As before, I am conjuring the spirit of the exercise requirement rather than its letter and also making use of previous … Continue reading Part 4, exercise 4.3 or maybe Assignment 4 – fluid painting on film with prints
The focus is to be a part of the house, or maybe three different parts of the house, drawn as tondos. I chose the latter and used Inktense pencils for the task which I also dampened and brushed out with … Continue reading Part 4, exercise 4-2, three pencil drawings
This section brought up memories of circular horrors marching up the staircases of elderly aunts so I wasn’t looking forward to it. In the end, though, it’s just a painting that’s round instead of rectangular and because of that, draws … Continue reading Part 4, exercise 4-1/4 – the tondo
The task suggests looking at some of the artists mentioned in the introduction to this part of the module and so I began by searching for Iain Andrews as his is the first name in the text. It sits next to an illustration of one of his pieces of work but as this is undated and has no title, it wasn’t retrievable. Other works of his seem not to be in this format but have a similar style – surrealistic images and allusions to content evidently equated with Freud’s analytic theories. Andrews is an art psychotherapist (not a psychologist as … Continue reading Part 4, research point 1 – painters of tondos
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