Developing my Ideas

Wave Motion, John Lancaster, 57 X 76 CM

Neville Gabbie, Still from his Chalk Performance

This week I wasn't sure where I wanted to take my project at the end of last week so I started to make larger drawings and get out of my sketch book a bit more. I soon found that the shapes that I was making where becoming almost to engineered and not random or organic as I wanted them so I decided to get around this to pour watered down acrylic on top of it to create these random shapes that I could then add further detail to in the form of lines and squares. I really liked these pieces because they felt less forced they sat really well against each other the contrast between the lines and the circles I really like.

Acrylic and pen 42 X 30Cm

 I wanted to look at artists that would help me inspire my work so I have looked at aboriginal art, John Lancaster,  Neville Gabbie and Paul Noble. These artist all look and involve obsessive mark making in there work and they have inspired me to take my work in many different directions, which I think will be one of my main targets of this week to experiment with all these different ideas. I think that I might do a bit of performance art and start some large scale drawings, but also to introduce some ink into my work. Because the watered down acrylic worked well, but think that using ink will make a larger movement in my work and create smaller patterns of detail.