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Project 1: My Line is Emo

Passion
The organic lines flow around like two people in a passionate dance.
Agitation
The sharp angles, the thick and thin lines and how they create boxes that seems to imprisons you.
Agressive
The power of you anger. The build up and the relief you feel when you hit something. (violence Read more →
2D Project 1: My Line is Emo - Process


Continuation from the previous process post:
How I managed to make some of the digital prints i obtained:
Using Chinese Ink and paper, i applied large amounts of wet ink and immediately folding the paper into two. One in particular was the one i used for horror for ones of the lines Read more →




2D | Visual Journal: Mark making and Research


Refer to my mark making post here for all my works made with the tools above.
*my marks can be seen in the physical journal and also my previous 2D post of my mono prints.

My line is emo: Final lines


Here is a compilation of all of all of my final lines! If you want, here is a recap of my other posts for this project 🙂
https://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/vien0002/my-line-is-emo-artist-inspiration/
https://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/vien0002/my-line-is-emo-mark-making-tools/
https://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/vien0002/my-line-is-emo-fails-and-how-i-salvaged-it/
https://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/vien0002/my-line-is-emo-the-power-of-scanners/
https://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/vien0002/the-start-monoprint/
https://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/vien0002/my-line-is-emo-techniques-tried-and-tested
This is the start of my final lines!



My Line is Emo: Final Work

These are my final 18 lines for the project & explained why the lines are representing the different emotions. I mainly focused on decalcomania with the mixture of mono print and hand drawn.
Little speckles of ‘light’ among the darkness.
Veins/nerves stretching out.
Paint marks splattered up like a blood scene.
Mimics the disgusting worm when scanned inside the stomach.
Different flow in opacity just Read more →

2D Project 1: My Line is Emo - Artist Research Material


Agnes Martin
Styles:
Initial Monochromatic Drawing/Painting Abstract painter square canvasses, meticulously rendered grids and repeat stripes Versatile Use of Mixed MediaHer works:
“Meditative therapeutic art work “They want to minimalize themselves in favor of the ideal. Well, I just can’t. The minimalists clear their minds of their personal problems. . . they don’t even leave themselves there! They prefer Read more →


My line is emo: Artist inspiration


Inspiration 1: CY Twombly
Focusing on abstract work, I really like CY Twombly’s ‘scribbled’ art.
I wanted to do a line for love, mainly passion. When I think about a crazy, sort of passionate form of love, I envision two lovers being hopelessly together in their own messy world. CY Twombly’s style of ‘scribbles’ really resonates with what I envision the line to Read more →
2D | Visual Journal: Monoprints/My line is Emo


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Visual Journal


During the whole assignment, I documented my process and products and pasted them into my physical journal. The following images are pages from my journal 🙂

My line is emo: Mark making tools


To have even more prints, made some mark marking tools that I found from home.
Then I felt that the prints were not satisfactory, so I decided to play with my favourite – watercolours!
