Pictures!

These are some pics I drew when I was bored after watching Princess Diaries. =^_^=

Pink!

This is one of the earlier images I did, I guess at the time I was just practising and so it had no real meaning then. But looking at it now, I can see how I unconciously tried to use the elements and principles of design to make this image work. It is an analogus colour, the cool colours of yellow, blue and green, balanced out as much as I could make them across the page with a mixture of splashes of colour than I let run down in streams. It seems to be symbolic of rain to me, the way the drops splatter hard against windows and then run down into cool, smooth streams that mix into each other no matter the differences.

10 Years Time

1. I hope to be only happy with my life and the lives around me.
2. I hope to be in the middle of a career that I love doing.
3. I hope the world will see me as the happy, family-oriented, published, dreamer.

These are only three short hopes of mine but there is such an infinate possiblity. Another quote form that beautiful song:
"I wrote on a blank piece of paper what it would be like in the future
But no one really knows the truth,
If I were from the future, I’d tell my present self,
“Change your hard work into confidence and trying until you reach that goal”"

One day I hope that whatever goals I have reached are the ones that make me, and the people around me, HAPPY!

Carl Jung

"The energy of the central point is manifested in the almost irrestible compulsion and urge to become what one is, just as every organism is driven to assume the form that is characteristic of its nature, no matter what the circumstances."
This quote was in our task sheet so I probably didn't need to right it down, but it just soounds so nice and truthful that I wanted it to last longer.
I agree with this quote in so many ways, when you think about it, it makes you feel as if there is something out there waiting for you to BE it, but one can never these things as another beautiful songs mentions:
"Just keep drawing your life, there’s no need for an eraser,
You just need one single goal,
We worry, we wonder, we second-guess ourselves,
There’s no one right answer, so keep pushing forward and look for yours."
All of these things are true so all that's left to wonder about is when it hits you in the face will you be able to tell? Or will it just feel unconsciously right? Only time can tell, but time never will.

Carl Sagan

"An image of how small we are." Everytime I learn something new about the universe it amazes just as much as all the other times, everybody has a different view, a different perspective, and the scariest thing is that there is just sooooo much out there that every one of these points is most likely true. The pictures taken by the Hubble are beautiful, and it's so amazing to think that they really were taken of patches of space that look empty to our eyes, it just adds to the knowledge of how massive the universe is and how tiny and insignifigant we are. Something that it really makes me think about though, especiallly the last video, is the fact that so many people can look at these things and think it's possible that one single entity could have ever created it. However I don't even know what to think on that topic because it raises all the iimpoosibly annoying questions like "How did the big bang happe?" "What was here before?" "If God didn't create the universe then who did?" (That last one in particular is annoying because people don't seem to wonder where that god must have come from in the first place.)

Animation

That video waas absolutely terrifying! The universe put into that perspective is just so impossibly unimaginable, thinking about it just makes my head hurt. I new the universe had no end, that we know of, but seeing the whole thing just smashed in front of your face like that is just amazing. The music was so beautiful, it described the feeling of loneliness and adventure and impossible things all at once. The inmage3s were amazing, the stars and galaxies being created, it shows just how infinently unsignifigant Earth and humans are in reality or whatever is beyond reality. Even if our race progressed to a 'space stage' and could travel at a million times the speed of light we would still never be able to explore that endless universe. It does raise one sad question though, if there was the slightest, tiniest, miniscule possiblitly that we were, or are, the first type of 'intelligent' life to evolve, then just thinking about that lonliness is enough to make anyone cry.

Edge of the Universe

I think I would have to agree with the expanding universe model, the universe is simply immpossible to imagine, for me at least, and I can think of absolutely no way to represent it in any mental or physical form. So little is known and so little is seen of the universe, the possibilities are endless. I would never be able to get my head around it if the 'edge of the universe' was 'discovered'. What could the edge possibly be? How could it be a solid object, like a wall? That would be imppossible because then that wall would have to be created by something. How could it be simply nothingness? Just an endless black? Because nothingness in itself is not nothing, it still exists. Therefore I conclude that the only thing that could mark the end of the universe is some sort of spiritual realm, for nothing else makes sense.

Chicken or Egg?

I believe the chicken came first, due to particular circumstances such as a change in the environment or a new substance in the 'chickens' make-up, the egg was an evolution. The birds body needed to create a safer way or simply a different way to produce its youn, so it evolved the hard shell to hold its young untill they reached maturity.

Step 1 - Roy de Maistre

Roy de Maistre painted in a very sought-after style of work, he was a "colour-music" painter. He vigorously researched the concept of colour harmony, using the colours in a painting like musical notes to blend together and create a symphony. He was one of the leading exponents of Modernism in Australia.

Task 1 - Arthur Streeton

When he was young, learning at an art school he went out with other students and painted in the plein air style, where they took their canvas' outside and simply painted while looking at the world around them. He was also interested in the Impressionism style, he exhibited 40 works in "The 9 By 5 Impression Exhibition." He worked with other artists for a while in a hospital during the war, the injured soldiers had a great effect on him, and he was later declared medically unfit and went away to recuperate. For a few years while he visited and lived in Olinda, he painted many panoramic landscapes which are giant paintings that reveal a wide view of a particular subject, usually a landscape, historical event or battle.

Task 1 - Tom Roberts

Tom Roberts was an English artist who moved to Australia, he was well known for bringing the style of Impressionism to Australia. Impressionism is a technique that involves using very bright colours and short brush strokes to show the effect of light on different objects in the paintings.

Step 1 - Eugene von Guerard

Eugene von Guerard came to Australia in 1852 but even though he was already an artist he didn't start painting in Australia immediately, instead he became a gold-digger. He later became a working artist again painting properties and such. In the early 1980'2 von Guerard was far more famous for his landscape paintings. He painted these with remarkably shadowy lighting and in-depth detail.

Step 1 - John Glover

John Glover was an English/Australian artist who has been dubbed the Father Of Australian Landscape Painting. He came to New Zealand in 1831 on his 64th birthday and began painting Australian landscapes. He is best known for his Tasmanian paintings with which he brought a fresh new outlook on Australian landscapes by using the sunlight he saw to make the paintings bright and clear unlike the old English style. Clovers painting were also far more accurate representations of the landscape, especially his trees which were characterised as having flowing branches and limbs.

Step 1 - Gloria Petyarre

Gloria Petyarre is an Aboriginal artist born in 1945. Glorias painting style is unique and uses her imagination to depict stories and her understanding of the traditional country surrounding her. Her Bush Medicine paintings are examples of this style.

Step 1 - Artist Table Sally Harrison

Sally Harrison - Sally Harrison lived a tough life, she became a member of the stolen generation when she was 13 months old and didn't meet her mother again for 43 years. She had a white father and, being half half, she was expected to act like a white woman. She began painting when she was 10 and to her it felt like painting became "a means of escape and a healing tool." Sally Harrison often uses a technique that involves simply looking at the basic shapes and getting the painting colours down then moving over it in layers, and when the painting is finished she goes over the backgrounds and adds an aboriginal style dot-painting theme to it, like in these paintings.

Sirous Shaghaghi - The Skulls

b) This image was made slowly and carefully, the whole canvas material was painted black in layers to make it nice and dark. The skulls were then painted on layer by layer to build up depth and make them more realistic.
c)The background is very deep and dark and the skulls have a great deal of contrast, addin gthe impact and standing out. However the skulls are a simular tone of colour so they fit in well with the black and don't look extremely abstract and strange.
d) The meaning of this image is so hard to discern, there are so many different possibilities. It dosen't look sad or frightening, merely there, just existing. It could mean that death is simply nothing, just plain, easy simple, it dosen't feel like anything.

Skulls

It was really hard to get any pictures of this one because it was so big, I had to stand on the opposite side of room which also meant that I had to wait for people to move. But it was only on a single story so I didn't have to crane the camera up too much, and I managed to these pictures at least, which aren't too bad.

Reflection

The exhibtion wasn't really as fun a we thought it might be, some of he art woks were really great and fascintating but some were a bit dull and more towards the abstract side that i find a little bit boring, not that they weren't amazing. Some of them were simply amazing though because of the size of them, huge canvases that covered the walls, they would have taken so long to paint, and the whole entire place was fitted out with these great artworks. The funnest thing in the whole museum was definately worth going to see, a room full of strings that you could run around in, it was definatley the hhiglight of the experience, and the amount of time it must of taken to put that up! It would have actually been pretty fun though, to make it and then be the first to run around and test it out. I'm not sure really though what sort of meanings there could have been to that piece of 'art', it almost made you feel like being underwater, you could hardly see anthing in front of you, it was dark and unexpected, the biggest differences of course were that you could walk and breathe.

Angel

Art Excursion

Angel -
b)The picture was outlined in a thick, dark pencil on a dark, shiny carboard material. Newspapers, magazines and differents texts were cut up and added all around the edges of the picture. Lastly all the stickers were added one by one, very tightly packed in the center of the outlined figure in the center of the image. They add a great contaversy through the use of bright and dull colours and space and shape. It helps explain how tightly these things are tied in with the rest of the image.
c)This image uses great contrast and space to relay its message. The stickers in the middle are vright and tightly packed, right in the center of the image, they stand out and really make you focus on them because they seem at first glance to be very important. Outside of the center however, theere are no colours aside from black, grey and white. All the images and texts are spread out widely over blank paper, this helps offer an image of the artists state of mind and the apparent unimoportance of these seperate images.
d)The figure in the middle represents a god of sorts, and of course that means it relates to a particuler religion. The god is made up however of stickers that are completely modern and unrelated, they almost seem to sybolise corruption. If the artist meant it like this then maybe he believes that the religious worshippers are not remaining true to thier culture, they have lost sight of the true meaning of things and only focus on the materialistic matters at hand, things that earn things in return. This is fueled by the images around it, the colours are dull and seem to represent unimportance yet the the images and texts are those og high importance and views of beliefs, "no-smoking" for example. The artist may be trying to convey that he feels that the religion has lost sight of its true meaning and by caring so much about these materialistic symbols it's leaving out the really important beliefs that it stuck up for for so long. Thought the whole image could be seen in an entirely different, more positive manner of, 'just as you love and cherish and keep these things with you all the time so you should do with your cherished religion.'
e)It seems that the artist has through rather a lot in his youth in the terms of dislocation and religious uncertainty. When he finally got settled in this time of turmoil it seems he lived in a world full of life and colour, a world where everybody was in a hurry to get all these things, know everything new, have as much as they could mentally and phsically. By living in this environment and experienceing it so often the artsit would of course develop a particular frame of mind and an interestin view on the impacts of new society and changes on the old religious and social expectations. Maybe he wanted to somehow communicate some of his feelings about this new world and relate to the old one, this image could even be a representation of how much the religion has accepted the changes and how it still lives on but in new ways.

Sally Harrison Works

Things I Learned During The Sally Harrison Experience:
To be truthful at first i found this way of painting really frustrating, the brush woludn't let me addd the lines i wanted, it was so thick i couldn't see what i was putting on the paper so i constantly made mistakes. But i learned that not worrying about what i was painting and just looking at very basic shapes, though it made my pictures look bad, it definately helped me get a lot more done and made it easier for me to have fun because i accepted the difference from my normal work styles.
The adding of water to the acrylic paints was really fun, it made it a lot easier to spread the paints and experiment with different colours, as well as helping get the colours blended well before they dried out at least.
It's not a bad thing to step out of your comfort zone every now and then, you can always learn something new and interestin and it isn't hard to get back.

Tips!

Sally Harrison came into our classes to show her how she does her particular style of painting. While we watched her and attempted to do our own simular versions there were many helpful tips and observations made:
Looking at the basic shapes of the pictures is helpful for just getting the background in, even squinting at it and going as simple as possible.
Working back over the picture again and again is the best way to make the finalised image as realistic as possible.
Attenion to detail always comes at the end of the painting when it's almost finished.
Start with the dark layers of colour then add the lighter colours over the top, it's good to wait for the image to dry if you don't want the colours to blend together.

Landscapes

This is a landscape that i feel not neccisarily perfectly comfortable in but i find looking at it very calming and relaxing. The whole beach is smooth and flowing, the colours are soft and warm, even the colour of the water. The lack of signs of humans in this shot is also an extremely nice change, it hints at somewhere secret, untouched and changed which is one of the rarest and best things in this world.