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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
November 5th, 2020. It isn’t ideal to be doing the ground work post hoc for the practical work it’s likely to inform but, due to ongoing actual ground work, that has been the way it has had to be. This … Continue reading Formative feedback
This very primitive demonstration shows how augmentation can be applied to paintings wherever they are and accessed using QR scanning. A second way of making the AR visible is to upload the target image, in this case the painting, and the video file – this one made in Thyng – to the Thyng website. Once live, scanning the image with the Thyng app will bring up the AR embedded video. QR scanners are ubiquitous for smart devices. Thyng may be a new um, thing but is also a smart device app. This is an experiment; I’m paddling in the shallows … Continue reading Assignment 2 with AR via QR – blue butterflies anyone?
This is really my preferred size – it allows for gestural movements and maximises large rather than very tiny marks. I’ve chosen the tubes of paint again, placing them on a black Amazon box that had contained one of those … Continue reading Assignment 2 – painting a collection at A1 scale, dramatically lit
This has been both a nightmare and a revelation. The first because ‘small’ is a challenge on several levels (all those faculties that don’t work so well as you get older), and the second because some of it did work relatively well despite those constraints. I also realised that my initial choice of twenty found images did not necessarily map well onto the actual assignment: some were really not at all interesting to paint, and some were, for me, impossible to paint. As a result, I substituted a few as the task unfolded. Luckily – or by design – some … Continue reading Assignment 1 – objective evaluation
For this part of the assignment, we’re asked to arrange the twenty small paintings on white paper to make a large painting, and then to consider groupings. I used two A1 pieces of foam board temporarily held together with masking tape and propped on my easel. The first arrangement goes from animals through fictional species, to space then place, and finally to Diana on her own as she always seemed to be despite the crowds. The second arrangement is more pragmatic – it’s the ones I’ve put into my desktop and Alexa wallpaper folders. The rejects are down the right … Continue reading Assignment 1 – arranging twenty small paintings to make one large one
This first image comes from a book published in 1957, detailing the history of the school I attended from 1960 to 1967. It has significance because, back in the late 1800’s, Cleckheaton was denied a grammar school, the council awarding … Continue reading Assignment 1: 11-20 paintings of found images
The task is to complete twenty paintings of the found images used earlier in this section, the size and support to be a consistent 6″ x 6″ HP watercolour paper. While completing the previous exercises, I began to realise that … Continue reading Assignment 1: 10 of 20 paintings of found images
There is no particular order to these paintings although chronological is probably the most appropriate. For me, in a statistically defined ‘at risk’ group and with no end in sight to that risk, lockdown has been the defining feature of this module and probably will be for the next one at least. I have had to invent ways of meeting the requirements without access to people, or landscapes, or sometimes sufficient space. This in the context of also accessing reliable food supplies for myself and my five cats who would be quite unforgiving if deprived of Felix As Good As … Continue reading Part 5 assignment 5 – Lockdown Art: a series of paintings on a theme
There are two main parts to this task, the first being to review all my landscape paintings to consider which have been the most appealing. This is my collection from the current module and what strikes me is the colours; … Continue reading Part 4, assignment 4 – landscape
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