Evidence Art project
Here is my
finished art peace called Evidence.
It was
painted a few years ago as a college assignment and although it is a few years old now, I didn't get to completely
finish it the way I wanted to at the time. So today I took it down from my loft
were it was exposed to extremes of temperature of cold in the winter and
boiling hot in the summer. So I am sure you can imagine that it is not in the
best of shape.
My idea at
the time was to paint a picture of myself looking into a window and each
section of window was to be painted in a different style or colour. However, my
tutor at the time, was not really happy with this idea, although to be honest,
I think I just didn't explain my idea properly.
So instead, I created
this as a series of self portraits that I painted in the negative over an eight
day period. As you can see the first one or two portraits were not so good, but
each day I did a painting, I started to get better and more confident with my
brush work. I have to say, my favourite one is the top right painting as the brush
strokes are loose and getting more confident. I painted the portraits as
negatives, as I felt at the time unhappy about my art and to be honest I still
do to a degree. The frame of this
painting is covered with photos of family and ancesters as well as copies of
census forms that recorded my great grand parents.
To finish
this peace, all I really needed to do was put some of the wood features of the
window in and that's it. Not sure if it adds to the art, however, this was
taken before I coloured the frames white, so at this stage it looks out of
place.
Anyway,
that my finished Evidence painting
The sculptural
part of this project was the Evidence chair that I featured on this blog
before, but here is a photo anyway.
Until next
time, thank you for reading my blog and please feel free to make a comment.
