Painting- Frank Auerbach

Head of Julia, 1960. Oil on canvas,

• born in Berlin
• parents- Charlotte Nora Burchardt (Artist) and Max Auerbach (a patent lawyer).

Frank was sent to England in 1939 to escape Nazi percecution. Both his parents that were left behind in Germany later died in a consentration camp in 1942. I think this was a key driving force behind his work.

• He is a figurative painter.

Painting- John Currin

JOHN CURRIN
The Old Fur, 2010
Oil on canvas
50 x 38 inches (127 x 96.5 cm)

JOHN CURRIN
Rippowam, 2006
Oil on canvas
40 x 47 inches (101.6 x 119.4 cm)

painting

Research

 

 

 

 

Agnes- Cecile
Watercolour speed painting
done as part of an attempt to create 1000 paintings in a month took her 1.5 hours

 

Russ Mills
Assasins Creed III Game Poster
Russ Mills uses painting, drawing with ink and pencil and scanned textures to create his images

Summmer Salts

Summer Salts

Shintaro Ohata
He likes to blend sculptues and painting

 

 

Stefan Da Costa Gomez
classis hollywood paintings in 3d acrylic
 

Adam S. Doyle
Jabberwockey 12x12

Direct Assent 18x24

Deer of Peace 24x20

ANIMATION

I open the door and...
This was the unfinished sentence I chose to use for my project. I chose the idea of clothes attacking because it seemed interesting and could have a satisfying outcome in a time period of 15 to 20 seconds.
I used around 200 photos to create this animation but I took just under 400 altogether. There was alot of unusable footage due to the incompatence of the modal and the hilarious nature of the animating clothes that all to often fell from there upright positions.
The entire animation was shot at night with longer exposure. I chose this because I needed to control the light so I set up the animation in my room and I turned the tv into the wall and left it on static to stop flickering and light changes. this allowed me to work in my own time.

Factory Sculpture

To create these sculptures I used cardboard to create the bulk of the frame and roof . I used bits of pencils and pipe cleaners to make the struts for the roof and the columns for the sides. I used air drying clay to make the different pieces of rubble for the base and foreground.

The Weird Little Car

After finding the weird little car in a small closed off space of the factory I began to think. I wondered why, why was this creepy children’s toy doing in this particular room, in this factory and in a part of Carlow that does not have houses. I investigated the room to find clues as to why the car was in this specific place and my search came up with nothing. There was absolutely no connection to this place what-so ever. It was obviously old. It was as covered in dust and webs which equaled everything else in the room. So I came to the conclusion that it must have been there since the place was active and was brought in probably by a worker showing off his kid. It was so out of place that it amazed me how it changed the space around it and in this video I tried to capture this essence as a recreated discovering it. I tried to make it was creepy as possible and I like the result.

Factory Take 2

These Photos have all been edited on Windows Live Photo Gallery. This is a photograph of my old hang out spot. This is a personal space. It's secluded and it's a very interesting place to just sit around and spend time. I always sat on the wall and waited for the train to pass right under my feet. I am going to try and incorporate somehow the emotions I felt  and  the experiences that this space has brought me. 

In this image I wanted to concentrate the attention of the viewer towards the train tracks. The heavy contrasts from black to white brings crispness that expresses greatly the emotions I wanted to show, which are power, fear, danger and awe. I wanted these emotions to show because when you sit in the same spot I was you become embodied with a certain sense of impending doom this is partly because you would be at a height and if you were to fall you would be left helpless on a train track to seclude to be found. And it’s this primal sense of self-preservation that appeals to me and I wanted it to shine through this work.

This image is a good example of the view from my hang out spot. The black and white really shows the abandonment of the whole area and I love how the branches direct your eyes and sort of point you towards the focal-point of the image which is obviously the abandoned factory.

In this image I like how the trees and bushes seem to frame the factory

This is one of my favorite images that  iv'e ever taken. I didn't want to mess with it too much and every time I tried to improve it I didn't like the result because the original was just perfect to begin with. but I did however settle for black and white to add a more prolonged experience for the viewer to immerse themselves with my piece. After my first day photographing the area it was apparent to me that sometimes a figure would help me express some of the emotions that I wanted to show and certainly in this piece the figure makes it.

Here is the original image completely unaltered and as you can see there is almost no difference between them.

this image is somewhat remnant of a train station with the high roofs and steel frames 

This room contained large amounts of polystyrene blocks and during summer sometimes you can see some  opportunistic kids using them to create make-shift rafts I often wondered where they got them when they floated past me on the river barrow and now I know.

A collapsed strut which almost completely buckled under the extreme pressure of the concrete and iron roof.

A pipe to know where 

 I really like this image of the mysterious little car's perspective I always imagine it as if it were alive and had a mind of its own and I wondered what it might be thinking and I wondered what it was looking towards. i darkened this image a lot. This was because I wanted to hide all the debris on the floor and I really like how this further personified the upper-left window.

window.