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These objects I originally chose were too complicated to mould. Drawings from my sketchbook

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These objects I originally chose were too complicated to mould. Drawings from my sketchbook

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From my sketchbook

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WEEKEND 5 SEMESTER 2 PAINTING EXIT BRIEF

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WEEKEND 5 SEMESTER 2 PAINTING EXIT BRIEF

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The brief was to make three paintings with themes of Utopia, Dystopia and Heterotopia. All images to incorporate a photograph and small piece of text.
Utopia = Neutral
Dystopia = Analogous harmony
Heterotopia = Triadic harmony

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Jesse sent us a link to all the performances but I couldn't work out how to edit mine from the whole file which was too big to upload here. If I did this again I would frame myself differently. I really learned a lot from doing the performance because it wouldn't be something I thought I would be able to do when I started this course two years ago! Would definitely try again with something that has a little more time and deeper thought put into it.

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Our final weekend was a critique weekend for our video essays. We also did some in depth reading of texts by Donna Harraway and Silvia Federici. As it was the May Day weekend, Jesse made a padlet for us to do some secondary research on for the exit brief.  This work is in Secondary Research padlet. Some of us also made our first live performance art on the platform of Skype!

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WEEKEND 5 SEMESTER 2 UTOPIA PAINTING EXIT BRIEF

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WEEKEND 5 SEMESTER 2 UTOPIA PAINTING EXIT BRIEF

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I used this image which I didn't actually take, it was taken by one of my daughter's friends as she and others swam in a blue lagoon in Croatia . I edited the original image to give it this idyllic pale blue tone to match the neutral colour scheme of the painting of Utopia in the final brief padlet

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WEEKEND 5 SEMESTER 2 DYSTOPIA PAINTING EXIT BRIEF

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WEEKEND 5 SEMESTER 2 DYSTOPIA PAINTING EXIT BRIEF

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I used this image of me as my image for the Dystopia painting in the final briefs padlet. Image edited with Gimp to make the anologous harmony colours

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WEEKEND 5 SEMESTER 2 HETEROTOPIA PAINTING EXIT BRIEF

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WEEKEND 5 SEMESTER 2 HETEROTOPIA PAINTING EXIT BRIEF

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I used this image of Grace Gifford's cell, which I took on a visit to Kilmainham Jail last summer. She was an artist who left her own marks and traces of self on the landscape of her prison cell wall. Prisons are classified by Foucault as Heterotopias of Crisis or Deviation. This image contains triadic harmony colours naturally in the rusty deterioration of the cell door

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Sunset Digital Sky from Second Life used for a multichromatic painting

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Sunset Digital Sky from Second Life used for a multichromatic painting

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Midday Second Life Digital Sky I used for a multichromatic sky painting 

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Midday Second Life Digital Sky I used for a multichromatic sky painting 

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Weekend 5 Semester 2 Exit Brief Morning Second life Digital Sky image I used for my multichromatic sky painting in final brief padlet

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Weekend 5 Semester 2 Exit Brief Morning Second life Digital Sky image I used for my multichromatic sky painting in final brief padlet

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Time lapse sky over my back garden.Made with Nikon camera on timelapse setting

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Time lapse sky over my back garden.Made with Nikon camera on timelapse setting

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I took this shot later the same night, cropped and edited lightly with contrast to enhance the craters

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I took this shot later the same night, cropped and edited lightly with contrast to enhance the craters

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I captured this with a Nikon bridge camera with zoom lens, then cropped it. No filters! 

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I captured this with a Nikon bridge camera with zoom lens, then cropped it. No filters! 

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Another sky image from outside the house

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Another sky image from outside the house

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I also used this cloud for a gradient work in Gimp

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One of the sky images from outside my house, used for gradient painting with Gimp.

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One of the sky images from outside my house, used for gradient painting with Gimp.

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One of our exit briefs from this weekend was to make some digital gradient painting from skies we found at home. And to make multichromatic paintings of skies we found on Second Life.

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This weekend was a very busy one for lectures and subject matter. We covered topics of Utopia, Dystopia and Heterotopia with Glenn Loughran. We attended a lecture in the lecture room of the Second Life virtual world! We also covered digital art making.   Sunday was  a full day photography workshop with guest lecturer Annmarie Walker. Our class brief was to make some multichromatic paintings based on works by artists like  Bernard Frize and Paul Doran. These paintings are in the final briefs padlet.

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Cave art eye drawing I made for this carving, based on cave art from France

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Cave art eye drawing I made for this carving, based on cave art from France

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This is carved from  one piece of plaster. Finished piece is in the Final work padlet

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Work in progress!

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I decided to carve an eye as this was a symbol often used in early art, especially cave art.

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I chose to carve a pestle which was used to grind pigment in a mortar by the Old Masters and in early cave art. This is in keeping with my thematic on traces of self in landscape

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WEEKEND 4 SEMESTER 2 Sculpture workshop Exit Brief

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WEEKEND 4 SEMESTER 2 Sculpture workshop Exit Brief

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Our exit brief was to make blocks of plaster for carving. I chose to carve a baby block, which contains traces of language and mathematics, in keeping with my thematic of traces of self in landscape

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Yay! Two part plaster mould successfully made!

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Yay! Two part plaster mould successfully made!

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Finished base mould,  not very neat but not bad for a first go!

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Finished base mould,  not very neat but not bad for a first go!

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Clayed up mould, cutting registration keys

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Clayed up mould, cutting registration keys

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Drawing halfway line for claying up the base mould

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Drawing halfway line for claying up the base mould

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I had chosen other objects which Mick said would be hard to mould so I chose this simple shape instead. It relates to my thematic of of traces of self in landscape as a pestle and mortar would have been used to make early art.

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Making the top half of the mould by hand

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Making the top half of the mould by hand

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Mick's Online workshop: Making the base of the mould

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Mick's Online workshop: Making the base of the mould

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WEEKEND 4 SEMESTER 2 SCULPTURE WORKSHOP WITH MICK O'HARA

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WEEKEND 4 SEMESTER 2 SCULPTURE WORKSHOP WITH MICK O'HARA

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Our first weekend of lockdown! We had a fabulous three day sculpture workshop with Mick O'Hara. He did so well to teach us the process of mouldmaking via online lectures! Some images follow.

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Getting ready to paint in Kevin's studio

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Getting ready to paint in Kevin's studio

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My mixing palette for analogous harmony painting 

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My mixing palette for analogous harmony painting 

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Weekend 3 Semester 2 Pages from Primary Notebook

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Weekend 3 Semester 2 Pages from Primary Notebook

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Weekend 3 Semester 2 Pages from Primary research notebook

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Weekend 3 Semester 2 Pages from Primary research notebook

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Sketch in Gallery Diary from a drawing by Roberto La Plaza in Museum of Fine Art Bilbao

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Sketch in Gallery Diary from a drawing by Roberto La Plaza in Museum of Fine Art Bilbao

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Sketch in my gallery diary from a painting in the Bilbao Museum of Fine Art

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We were supposed to have a sculpture weekend this weekend but Mick O'Hara was taken ill unexpectedly and it was cancelled.  Majella took over and did landscape painting with the group. I missed the weekend because I was working. However I did some work at home on my video essay paintings. I also paid a visit to Sherkin during the week before lockdown to capture some video footage for my video essay and do some painting with Kevin. Pages from my Primary Research notebook follow.

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In January I visited Rembrandt's house in Amsterdam. This is the pigments table in his studio

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WEEKEND 2 SEMESTER 2 PAINTING EXIT BRIEF

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WEEKEND 2 SEMESTER 2 PAINTING EXIT BRIEF

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The Drapery of the Madonna's Arm, Leonardo Da Vinci (1510-15) I took this shot at the Ulster Museum exhibition of Da Vinci's works in Jan 2019.

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We got the chance to sample lots of dishes over the weekend. Here are a few images!