Monday, 11 March 2013

You cannot expect the form before the idea, for they will come into being together

 

Peacock

Using a vocabulary of mark making skills such as; painting with my paint brush attached to a ruler, drawing and painting left handed and using my hands and cutlery, I feel I have demonstrated a layered variety of mark making. I created this secondary observation from a photograph I took of a peacock using, Indian ink, oil pastels, pencils, poster paint and chalk. Using a body of layers and techniques has helped me identify that expressive mark making is not something you aim to look real, you distort the image for a fundamentally emotional response.

In the words of Wassily Kandinsky,
"The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul"

 

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