Environment & art

The style of art I want to work with is definitely environmental.  John Dahlsen has created some amazing pieces using washed up ocean garbage that he has collected from beaches across Australia.  In his artist statement he discusses the dumping of thousands of tonnes of plastics and how important it is for our society to develop and care more deeply about the way in which waste is created and then "dumped".  He is an inspirational artist in terms of his development across several mediums.  He began as an abstract painter and then one day as he was collecting driftwood to create and installation piece from recycling ocean debris he came across masses of washed up plastics and rubbish.  Suddenly he was drawn and inspired to use these things in his art and to make a statement about the environmental impact and our lack of appropriate waste disposal.

The Greenie is in me

Reading today about Green Art inspired me to work on a final piece to discuss the environment.  In my mind  the world we live on is a living organism that needs to be considered and kept as a feasible and desirable place for all things to live.  At this stage I am considering picking up all of the cigarette butts off the beach or ground (this is a pet hate of mine) and creating an art piece that has the form of a cork board but is actually made of cigarette butts.To that  I will pin a note saying that humans are not the only things that every cigarette does damage to.
Recycling, picking up after yourself and minimizing waste by saying no to extra plastics and packaging are become more and more prominent issues in our throw away and fast food drive by world.

Artistic talent is in the eye of the beholder

Looking around the lecture today, I get a real sense that most of my comrades have a love, a desire and a flair for art.  I like it.....but I have just lived out the larger portion of my life without taking it into consideration.  However now I find myself willing to spend an afternoon painting, drawing and trying to learn how to create shades and textures in things, so that I can produce artwork that I am proud of.  Today we looked at Max Ernst and created collages using a resource that has all the pieces available, from the background and the cut-outs of items that become glued where they need not normally be.  The essence of surrealism....things appear where you would not expect to find them.  Originally I was disappointed with my final piece, because it was my intention for the lines of colour within the tower and the moth to be more vibrant.  As with a lot of art, changing the medium can make a difference to its quality.  I find this picture creates a lasting impression a photograph.

Its all too surreal

Surrealism seems to be that place between fantasy and reality and its a place that adopts the unexpected.  Salvador Dali was the artist I picked to look at and then I found Vladimir Kush.  Inspired by Salvador Dali his paintings are often more romantic than intense.  They often portray a sense of hope with his use of nature to inspire the natural.  Boats with butterflies with Sails usually are, owls that make up the underground cobblestones of an ancient English city.  Vladmir Kush creates an emotional response within me, and it is a nice one geared towards the wonder and intrinsic nature of all things.  Today I set about bringing surrealism into the forefront of any artistic talent I could find.  The following website were my inspiration to get started.  I was hoping more for a join the dots version of how to make a surrealistic art piece, but apparently it is not that easy.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2120801_paint-surrealistic-art.html

http://arts-fine-gallery.co.uk/index.php/artistblogs/art-history/11-how-to-paint-a-surreal-painting

blitzing to Blitz the ARt Blitz

Day Three and now I realise that I need to purchase some other art equipment in order to continue my Art blitzing! Crayons will not cut it.  Day three is about creating something from within my bag. I found a business card for KAjo and it is my friends business, she creates jewellery.  I make a whole hearted attempt at drawing different jewellery pieces that I own.  However my lack of technique begins to distract me and I find myself getting frustrated that I cannot understand how to create what I see.

10 Day art blitz

Text art is an interesting style.  No doubt inspired by Dada or something similar.  I love English, so I like the concept of utilising text as art.   This is Day 2 or the 10 day art blitz.

The Gallery Visit

David Poulson is showing his artwork at the Noosa Regional Gallery and we had the opportunity to visit the gallery in a private tour. What struck me the most was the inner journey that happens where you are taken into an artists world, feelings and thoughts. Through their eyes and in their mind they choose colour depths, line style, stoke length, shade, tint, shape and so many more artistic terms to create their vision. What came to me from David's art was a rather intense journey of growth and change throughout his life. His earlier works while at art and design school were structured with the perfection of human and design form. His sketches were able to portray the small rolls of fat on a woman's belly to the soft form or her breasts with the true nature of those lines,they rarely feel sensual in any way. Then comes the black kangaroo prints which hold and intensity and left me asking a great deal of questions. Why does the kangaroo have a giant penis with a house burning on it? They are dark in colour and the kangaroo has a man's body, but also carries a rifle. Why? His work in this phase uses negative and positive light with shades of black and tints of white to produce intensity. Moving through the pieces there are works that feel "disturbed". You know that this was the intention because of the level of skills you have witnessed in his earlier works. Then I began to think that perhaps it was related to how David was feeling at the time.