Week 3

I am continuing putting ideas into my sketchbook, but this week in particular I was looking at colour to represent a crowed area. I have been thinking of ways to simplify the image of a crowd and using colour was  the first method I chose. First, I used colouring pencils to mark the page. This led to paint. the colours I used have murky tones to them, I felt this was more realistic. I will definitely continue this way of dealing with my theme, working with colour and paint is something I'm really interested in.

A crowd,  showing how colour and bush strokes can represent the busyness and confinement. 

During the week I have been researching artists. I found an artist called Chelsea Tyler Wood.  Apart from the obvious connection to my idea, her work, due to the colour and realistic quality to her paintings they caught my attention. I love the heightened use of colour in the figures, how they look to be squeezed and pushed into the box. She deals with the female figure and how it is used in art. I found her work so interesting. 

Week 2

This week I got started on visual research and sketches to outline my idea. I started with a sketch of a crowd and then a girl in a box, my goal was to put images to my  thoughts. I will also maybe look at being unidentifiable in a crowd and how we can become lost when surrounded with people. I began looking at the visual difference between an empty and crowded space and I intend on looking at the ways to portray emotions associated with both places. To do this I took photographs of the canteen when empty and full. The empty space is clear and bright with light hitting the metal chairs. The full space seems smaller and cramped. The image was blurred, this was an accident but the effect was interesting, it gave the photo a busy quality which is appropriate for the subject. This is something I'm going to look into.

Photos of the canteen, showing how crowded spaces are around us constantly. Visual difference between somewhere full and empty.

Small sketch of cramped figure

Painting using only blues, browns and white to convey a sense of sadness.

 I have been using colour as a way of conveying emotion, using blues, browns and purples. I'm continuing with the image of the box and a distorted figure within it to show cramped spaces.
I am still unsure of where to go next. I will maybe look at noise and purely colour. Even though I am still unsure of how my idea will develop, I am looking forward to see how it will transform.

Week 1

Week one: We received our brief, 'To Sense My Space'. During the week introductions were held giving information about the year ahead. On Thursday I began getting my ideas down on paper. When reading the brief my immediate thoughts were personal space, physical and imaginary. I thought of the body in space and how we respond to the boundaries. Confined spaces and emotions associated with them. Negative and positive space, the mind as a space, the body as a vessel for space but that it also occupies space etc.

Brainstorm of my ideas, looking at physical and imaginary spaces.

I found the idea of confined spaces interesting and this led me to think about a crowed space, how one can feel boxed in and confined when in the middle of a large group. This idea was both a personal one but one I hope others can easily relate to.