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This is just a small part of the “Journey” that i’m trying to show.

I actually started off really differently from what I’m actually working towards now. I honestly was quite lost when my initial idea was not accepted at first. But I received some suggestions of how to go about trying a new way of portraying my journey.

Sorry in advance for the poor quality and editing of the first draft video!

I kinda rushed through editing and rendering out the video a few weeks back! But that’s just the initial rejected idea.

(REMEMBER! This is just my initial idea which was rejected! Just showing the process!)

 

 

And now, this below is the new concept of still images that i’m trying for my Journey video! Just another rough draft also.

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FINALLY.

After many hours of playing around with lines and finding all kinds of emotions, probably losing quite a few along the way, it is finally done! It was most definitely a long process in getting all 18 emotions with the lines I had, but I’m glad everything worked out fine.

Below are some process work of me trying to find all 18 emotions! Followed by my final piece!

IMG_3532 Trying to collage different lines which somehow looked similar too, to find a new composition.

IMG_3539 Testing out and trying to feel some emotions.IMG_3541 Combining different pieces to form a whole new piece!IMG_3542 Inspired by Jackson Pollock! Splattering ink with a paintbrush.IMG_3548 IMG_3549 IMG_3551 Preparing the frames for my final composition!IMG_3553Testing more collages! IMG_3557

 

and for the finale,

 

 

 

My final piece!

FINALE

Below are the individually labelled emotions for each line:

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  1. Indecisive
  2. Spontaneous
  3. Embarrassed
  4. Exhausted

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  1. Systematic
  2. Anxious
  3. Sensual
  4. Turbulent
  5. Lyrical

final3

  1. Sloven
  2. Bizarre
  3. Psychotic
  4. Awkward
  5. Ambiguous

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  1. Nonsensical
  2. Fragile
  3. Aggressive
  4. Distracted

It was a fun, yet a little tiring experience! But certainly, with all my friends around, it makes every single work I did more worthwhile!

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 PLAYING W/ MONOPRINTS \\

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It first started quite bad as I didn’t really get what I should really do with monoprinting. So I ended up more of just drawing and doodling what I wanted on the paper. But, it was a first time experience, I didn’t really expect much either.

RESEARCH OF ARTISTS ON MONOPRINTS \\

 Mark Bradford

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Mark Bradford is an artist whose work I really wanted to try. His method of compiling random objects and recycled materials was really interesting.

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Mark Bradford, When it stops snowing, 2010, Mixed media collage on canvas, 275 x 372 cm

I brought some random recycled objects like milk cartons, egg trays, boxes and strings to test out. Also, I found and picked some random objects like twigs, leaves and beans.  The one thing I had to do was to really flatten all the objects and paste it over with white paper.

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Sadly, the plan didn’t work out that well as the objects did not really flatten that much, and I tried cutting them but they were all pretty plain. I ended up using them for monoprinting instead and got some of the following prints below!

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mbuploadThe second picture was actually made by dipping the whole twig in paint and scratching it around the paper. It was pretty cool to see what kind of images I could get even if the Mark Bradford technique didn’t really work out well. The process was pretty fun!

 

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Weight consciousness has always been a constant issue I have faced throughout my life. The never ending torturous journey of weight gain and loss.

The idea of weight consciousness that I am trying to portray is that wherever I am at and whatever that I may be doing, the thought of the weighing scale and checking my weight is always as the back of my mind. Regardless of the activity, it’s always at the back of my mind, like an itch that won’t go away.

Showing the weighing scale is a way for me to portray physically of what’s going on in my mind.

 

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From the research of the practice of automatic techniques, to that of abstract expressionists, who also practice automatism in an abstract form.

Some of the artists that I’ve researched on that really intrigued me was probably Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning. 

Some works by Jackson Pollock:

http://www.proprofs.com/flashcards/story.php?title=later-20th-century-art

Jackson Pollock

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/93942342199339900/

 

It is the way the lines form from the splatter of ink that really intrigues me, and how it, although very random, can portray so much emotion when you look at it.

My attempts of his work:

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I tried the ink splatter, but obviously in a way smaller scale as compared to his.

 

Some works by Franz Kline:

http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/probst-i-34186

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/64.146

 

The work of Franz Kline is so simple yet brilliant. Just by forming stokes of black and white on canvases, and by zooming in on each stroke, you are able to see so much emotion being portrayed by each and every stroke that seemed so spontaneously constructed.

 

My attempts of his work:

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Some works by Willem de Kooning:

Two Women with Still Life

https://www.artsy.net/artist/willem-de-kooning

http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/186.1991/

 

The work of Willem de Kooning is that he combines different styles of painting which consists of Cubism, Surrealism and Expressionism.

He portrays his emotion of anger and pain throughout most of his paintings, and also did lots of paintings of woman with those styles of painting.

My attempts of his work:

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I tried bringing those abstract lines together, to make it seem more of an accidental way of getting an image of a person in the painting.

 

These are all just a start to all the research that was done and probably even more to come!

It’s time to get busy testing out more new and different techniques!