Freya Welchs EPQ Blogz

 I caught up more on my blog, unfortunately the lecturer wasn't here but I did lots of blog work!  ARTIST RESEARCH - Nick Cave    Nick Cave (born 4th February 1959) is an American sculptor, painter, dancer, performance artist and professor. He has created the sound suit series which are wearable fabric structures that are bright, whimsical and often made with found objects. His later sculptures focus on colour theory and include mixed media and large scale installations. He lives in Chicago and directs the graduate fashion programme at the School Of The Art Institute of Chicago. He is continuing to work on the soundsuits.  His first career retrospective museum exhibition was at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago 14th May 2022-2nd October 2022 and at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York 18th November 2022-10th April 2023. He received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in June 2022.  As a child Cave wo...

 This week I caught up a little more on my blog ARTIST RESEARCH - Georgia O'Keeffe  Georgia O'Keeffe (15th November 1887-6th March 1986) was an American modernist painter and draftswoman. She was dubbed the 'mother of American Modernism' and gained international recognition for her natural form paintings, especially flowers, hills and desert-inspired landscapes, these were often drawn from and related to places she'd loved, including in childhood. She began studying at the School of Art Institute of Chicago in 1905. She worked as a commercial illustrator or teacher to pay for further education until 1920. She began to move to abstraction in 1915 through watercolours and charcoal drawings. O'Keeffe created many forms of abstract art including close-ups of flowers like the Red Canna paintings. Her works are in several museum collections and following her death the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum was established in Santa Fe. O'Keeffe's drawings and paintings we...

 This week I caught up more on my blog and putting all of my research together  We were also told to make our own blog posters so people can find our blog to stick up and around so I began mine but then it was said that it wasnt needed afterwards due to the change in us having to do a presentation instead of blog.

 Here I samples some graffiti sticks, this is a very heavy medium and I think its a really relaxing process to draw with these as you dont need to push hard. I did this really really quick, 2 min One-lined drawing of a cute picture of mini me,  I did it in graffiti stick, sampling the technique, I know it doesnt overly look like me but I wanted a blurry, sort of unrecognisable affect, I wanted to portray a fuzzy memory, that doesnt "look right", i did this by doing it very quickly but also rushing over my face ane making it not look fully like me, i think the line work is good, but I dont really like this piece to be honest. It doesnt look like me and it looks a bit like an old woman.

 

 

Here I did some sampling, I think that this turned out very well and I really love it, I used oil pastel for this sampling that I used 2 primary sources while creating these, 1 primary source for each one and for the first one, I did it by observing, I looked at my sister and drew from her in person. And then for the second picture I used this primary source of my little sister in a childhood blanket; I think that both of these really captured how my sister looks then and now and I think that they both turned out very well and I am happy with them. I really like how the colours that ive used pop really well and I also really like the texture of the oil pastel itself!