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Explore memory, identity, and connection to my ancestors through creating portraits of my grandfather.
He was an amazing gardener and could build almost anything.

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An uprooting of life, like a shadow which arises at sunrise and disintegrates at noon.
Exploring family in the midst of distress/ sickness. To resuscitate resilience and how to experience all life has to offer.

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I’ve got a broad idea, but also branching out, I really enjoy the look of soft oil paintings of objects such as a hand holding pearls, a women in a frilly dress ect. I love gentle work and really feel motivated to paint very gentle silhouette of hands, jewellery and flowers. My theme could be somethings along the lines of a softer look on life but maybe using objects such as knives, warped shapes and toxic mushrooms as a theme of a darker reality but still keeping that soft style

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emotions threw landscapes,it will have a soft look but could portray strong or intense emotions like anger or depression ect.i kinda want alot of differnt types to be showed as there is kinda alot of potential,I also dont know if I should put a figure in them all?

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I want to paint a portrait of someone who inspires me, we are not related at all but I love what he did with his art,
He was an amazing singer/vocalist and I would love to paint something of him.

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Relating my nana and poppa to fantails. Relating my link toward nz and wild life/the native birds connecting with the native trees relating to the native land of nz

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welcoming in new versions of ourselves through exploration of examining and processing patterned behaviours + what we’ve been conditioned (externally) to believe about ourselves (internally).

- recognising the beauty within the emotions we feel.
- allowance. acceptance.

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The coverage of the side you might had never known abt him or the knowledge he never got to share.
A portrait of him with one side of his face smiling and the other side of his face wrapped in a white sheet. Resembleing the knowledge he never shared.

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Paige H.
Wrapping can have a meaning of when opened, opening the past or opening a new chapter. Could be a wrapped wood logs opening them leads to a new home a new beginning. Maybe when it comes to a present it could be a simple gift from a family tradition or maybe a toy truck. As soon as it’s opened it leads to a new experience or new memory.

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you could use contrast quite strongly with the theme, either with the ideas or painting method itself "the state of being strikingly different from something else in juxtaposition or close association"

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literally find a forrest/bush and search for mushrooms

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navigating your way through things that are yet to be revealed + are unknown. Growing + moving through experience/change. Portraying transition in a way that is authentic to you, and the acceptance of this that may follow?

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venturing like travelling? physically? or by heart ect

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You could find some album covers and paint them aswell as obviously a portrait of some sort-

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Brush strokes and palette knife can explore the theme in a different sense

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researching ways that contrast can be represented in your work in the soft/dark style. Finding artists that work in those moods/styles/concepts.

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I would like to base my theme around NZ birdlife and the environment that surrounds them. This comes from my deep interest in NZ birdlife.I would like to make links to the NZ nature Alongside birds and explore deeper into specific ecosystems.

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I want to focus on one of the major feelings and themes of WLW, identity and self is a strong part of understanding who you are as a person and knowing who you are or are not attracted to is a part of that. I want to focus on the home-ly and familiar feeling of being with another woman, the mutual understanding of each other and being together is something I want to heavily focus on - some renaissance (especially French) paintings depicting women being together is something I really want to delve into.

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The idea of distorted and/or disturbing portraits or figures really intrigues me.  I had a few ideas. One being to explore the theme of mirror hallucinations. An artist I am really inspired by at the moment is Marlene Dumas, and I would love to create something with a similar feeling as her work.

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Should be lots of reference pictures for dresses. If you want a soft theme, maybe search wedding gowns or brides? Those dresses always have a soft, lovely look to them.

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Maybe you could paint a tui for one of your pieces? They are very majestic, and have vibrant colours. They are also very well known.

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Maybe you could incorporate lyrics or other references to his songs in your art?

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it’d be cool to explore where they draw inspiration from, and how this influences their art. It’ll be useful to utilise the information you likely already know about them, as well as to research areas of their life that impact what they create + how this manifests through their work. - Prints of something important/influential to the artist and incorporating this into your piece would be good. What you find significant and meaningful about your artist is what will drive your piece, so if you want to particularly focus on use of song lyric, the artist’s experiences, or their inspiration/s, each has a valid contribution to the art they create, and ultimately what you enjoy about it.

For a potential start, you could pick an aspect about the artist/art you want to focus on, explore this, and navigate your way through the personal significance this has to you. :)

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An interesting way you could explore these themes could be to incorporate ripped, highly patterned, or even charred fabric/paper materials for a chaotic/distorted/distant effect. You could use materials to conceal something beneath the distortion.

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To the audience, using highly patterned or chaotic material could be interpreted as a way to distract, avert the gaze away from another significant part of the painting, or to solely focus on the distorted subject.

This is just a suggestion on how you could draw from dumas’ works while adding another twist and represent distortion through another lens. :))

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At the moment I might be merging the themes of very dark scary folklore and have vibrant and colourful fantasy, folk lore and then picture book creatures are like distant cousins, sirens dragging men into the water to eat them then mermaids saving sailors who are drowning type of mixture

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trying to paint a picture of what forgetting things or blocking out memories can look like, its super messy and confusing and disorientated idk ill pick one by the end of the week