Artist- Jenna Anderson

Jenna Andersons art instantly caught my attention when i came across it. The amount of details in her works of beautiful forests and abandoned places haunted by faceless spirits in a world she has created of another time. I love the incomplete style of her work, lack of colour creating a quick sketch feel to the black and white drawings. However making the little bit of colour added even more captivating and bright as she uses it to connect the living and the dead in her mesmerising work.

Anderson also creates paintings, some self portraits and of certain scenery. She has a rough but detailed style in her paintings which i feel adds to the story created in her work, a feel of real life which is never perfect. The way she has created the reflection in the mirror as well as the light from the windows really bring a realistic feel to this room as if you could just step into it.
I have a huge interest in Andersons choice of subject in her "Restless Spirits" work. Exploring fiction and fantasy worlds can never be dull as each person imagines something completely different which means unlimited possibilities to be able to create in.

I feel i only briefly looked at this work in my own art. I wish i had explored this style further as i never really showed the context of the girls dream, the ruins and plants in a realistic element instead of abstract. I think it may have been interesting to have showed it in a drawing with the dancers in colour to stand out as the real emotions of the dreamer in her fantasy. However, i still stand by the abstract version where it is shown through the materials present as other people can not see ones dream.

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Artist: Zarah Abraham

I came across this artist when looking into movement. She films herself drawing with charcoal and creates the marks by moving her body- dancing on the canvas. The marks captures the movements that she creates when listening to music. I would love to try this to draw the movements of the dancers that i vision. I believe it would be difficult to capture as i am not a dancer but i will definitely try beginning with charcoal and possibly moving onto paint as i would love to see how the colours mix when using my body. I didnt really explore Abrahams style and incorporate it into my work as much as i wanted to as it was difficult to find a way to combine this style at a large scale with other materials. If i had more time i would of used this as a starting point to explore paint, printing and other materials layered up using my body. I feel this would have been a completely different investigation if i had done this.

Crete: Drawings

I took a sketchbook with me to Crete, on the plane i doodled this out of boredom. Using coloured pens i created random patterns and lines to draw out the front of a girl. Then using black Biro i added outlines and scribbled her hair and over onto the back of the page. To me this shows a process of turning boredom and negative emotions into creativity and art. The scribbles become less and eventually turn into the colourful patterns before fading completely. I really like the idea conveyed in this drawing, however i dont like the basic cartoon style as i think it shows my lack of drawing skills. The whole piece looks like a doodle and a bit messy. Especially with how the scribbles come out of the hair. I think recreating this with paint would create a better outcome. Instead of patterns it would be a strong mix of bright colours that is faded together like a light cloud. Compared to a mix of black and grey at the back with drips and harsh lines. I could also add some delica...

Development:

I decided to develop the drawings i did when experimenting with the use of the projector. I felt that these drawings were quite bad as they were quick sketches and details were out of place. For instance the scribbles on the dancers faces look odd and ruin the drawing. As i was looking into rough painting i decided to try experiment with the style. I think between the two my favourite outcome of the paint is of the face, The random pop of colour in the hair and mix of bright colours. I quite like the outcome when using a pallet knife and scraping it down the page with all the colours. The way the colours mix and still stand out from one another. Furthermore, adding paint to the drawing helped illuminate the green pen drawing. On the other hand some features are out of place, for instance the eyes are slightly ff and the lips. For the dancers, i found acrylic paint to be too runny to mix with colours. I think oil paint might work better. I got the paint...

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