Monday – Christina Earl -3D
This class allowed me to explore different mediums and experiment
with an idea that I’ve had at the back of my mind for awhile. Christina
supplied some materials to the class and I had fun with some High build,
crackle glaze and sand but what I enjoyed the most was the shellac! What
beautiful colour! It worked well in building up a figure by slowly laying down
more of it to create differences in tone but not in colour, what I had hoped
was to take it into glass or mirror painting because of it’s transparency but
the coldness of the glass affect the carrier, meths, and I got clouding, the
other challenge was the bottoms layers of shellac never really set and softened
and lifted with subsequent layers, although the few canvases I tried looked ok my best results were on paper.
I did start painting on mirrors with oils in this class and have
produced some nice effects, we all at times of our lifes compare ourselves with
others both physically and emotionally, we compare ourselves to an ideal of
what we should look like when we look in the mirror, so what would it be like
to have someone else look out at us as we look at ourselves? I have a few more
mirrors to paint but am happy with the outcomes so far. If any one has a full
length mirror their not using?
Wednesday- Christina Earl – Chercisco out of the dark
Every week a new model every week a struggle to get the room dark
enough. I used this class to practice modelling the body and getting poses for
my mirror work, the focus was the play of light over the contours of the body,
the contrast of light and dark. Hard
work and highlighted my need to practice more the capturing of the whole figure
quickly, I’m a bit slow!
Thursday – Jude Robertson -Beginners Photography
A lesson in patience! How spoiled we are to walk in and have prints
out of the camera within minutes, even to be able to see the shot you’ve just
taken on the back of your digital!
This class demanded you to slow down, I did not want to waste the
processing time on horrible shots, using black and white film how do you get
your eyes to picture something that you see in full colour and know its going
to look good in B/W? It takes 2 hours to process the film and another 2 hours
to dry before you do a test strip to do a contact print to see if any of what
you’ve taken might be worth the trouble of enlarging, a test strip, and getting
a final copy of acceptable quality to standup to B/W.
