December 2021 – DMU Commons

3301 Studio-Practical

Beginning year 3 projects to continue drawing my new blueprints which involves in large-scales developments, building my models to extensive heights instead of using reused-foam from last-year. Focusing onto skeletal methods leading to searching for woodworks near the design-wing, plasterworks near reception asking technicians-Robin and Nick for advice around equipment.

Showing my diagrams to craft my prototypes of lion/gorilla replicas
Characteristics of mythical-animals within Japanese-culture
Experimenting Pokemon-evolutions for their large-scales to manipulate in AV-Loans workshops
Molded my prototypes in plaster, giving them perfect appearances
Smooth-trimming their outer-surface
Making them look mythical

Wooden-shaver to trim wood-surface
Add stronger wood with another piece
Wood-glue and drill together
Stabilise body of work without breaking-apart
Covered via chicken-wire, giving them appearances
Hessian-fabric to wrap my models dipped in plaster
Doodle-paint in black lines around bodies and colour-patterning
Almost building a familiar-model of a Trojan-Horse

Manipulating with metal-wiring is easy but with needed protection of reinforces-gloves avoiding cut/scratches carefully metal-bend these wires in several ways after another.

Shaping inner-structures into a creature of my imaginations, adapting to Japanese-influence
Gathering materials at B&Q warehouse
Molded all models in plaster getting them to studio, real challenge
Maximum 4 people to transport via trolley took a month in October

B&Q-Website: https://www.diy.com/

Direct-Fabric Website: https://fabric-direct.co.uk/fabric-shops-leicester/

Sightseeing in plaster-room to manufacture my large-scale figures
Used dipping combinations of hessian-fabric/ceramics-powder
Resulted in my models weigh a ton adjustments in trimming to ease their weight

Measuring weighs, lengths and height of each area of my replicas

Mixture of bright-acrylics to doodle-paint separate slots
Given my prototypes dazzling appearances in evolution sharing beauty/frightening results
Revealing Solgaleo/Rillaboom’s characteristics
Setting up a theatre-background with my monsters in a gurgle-match

Putting up a theatre turning my studio-space into a dueling stage to two-beasts fighting for territory
Attached marble eyes to my gorilla
Reflections of Legendary-Pokémon and Peter-Jackson’s King-Kong
Codenames: Blazing-Solgaleo and Grillboom
Two models sharing face to face of different-oppositions

Positioned my two-alphas staring face-to-face as ancient rivalry with each of their open-spaces at floor 9/Crit-room. Audience given me feedback, they really like my animals-presence even if hunted in wildlife.

Manufactured animal fur/patterning supplies
Mounted as living-trophies
Focusing on Petrit-Halilaj’s role of setting a home-turf stage with desert/rainforest props.
Using MDF hardwood to buzz-saw them into desert/forest props
Setting up fire/blooming-forest via two dueling-habitats
Once stabilized I’d coated them in white-paint then decorated

Sorting my visual-props once positioned near my beasts
Adjusting studio-lights given them inner dimensional state
Opportunity of putting on a visual-theatre
Studying on my phase 2 “Nocturnal-Beasts” to work on Solgaleo’s counterpart Lunala representing eternal-night throughout mix-media techniques

Term 1 project: Elemental-Beasts

Term 2/3 Nocturnal-Beasts:

3302 Contextual-Studies

Over summer I researched practitioners into their methods of large-scale, given me motivation to assemble my new ceramics-models and doodle technique to craft gigantic collection of mixed-media within Netsuke-figurines.

Niki De Saint Phalle’s methods into monumental-figures in her academic role as French-artist:

Not just a personal-hobby but emotional feeling of living into sanctuary
Wanted freedom from fear/abused childhood-particularly her father
Inflicted her life before adulthood, traumatized Niki used rough techniques of shooting paintball liquids on unused-objects,

Taken advantage of her abused life, Niki enhanced her ceramics of overcoming challenges, finding art careers, channeling her past-nightmares and which I could investigate her influence on monumental-figures.

Learning about her traumatized-life, building structures never witness as children would explore/climbing over them
Crowned-figures published at Tuscany countryside/Capalbio Italy as sculptural-park
Absorbing her technique to craft my Netsuke-beasts from mixed-media resources including wood, plaster and doodle-patterning

Tarot Garden-Large scale park, Tuscany countryside 1966:

Books: Niki de Saint Phalle and the Tarot Garden 730.944/SAI

Weblinks: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/18/niki-de-saint-phalles-tarot-garden

https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5111

Viewing on Auguste Forestier’s role in wooden-toys which I’d used his reflected craftsmanship of assembling skeletal figures:

My primary motive of doodle-ceramics were expanding my creations from small to big versions of Japanese-Netsukes
Niki’s influence within my critical-facts onto Japanese-cultural arts
Patterning on practical experiments in Pokemon-evolutions

https://www.artbrut.ch/en_GB/author/forestier-auguste

Improving onto cartoon-arts to the next stage, Keith-Haring is best in his professional role as a doodle-artist. Most of his artworks were goofy in his imaginations, my last year’s creations were adaptable within illustrations to his advantages/strengths.

Haring’s creations having a strange-relationship blended by humorist characteristics might affect split-personalities
Spread influence into public society but have begun to fulfill his potential in early development when he was a child-oldest of four siblings

Keith-Haring’s doodle-developments/weblink:

https://www.haring.com/

Admired Niki De Saint Phalle’s development in large scale monuments and her creation of Tarot-Garden
Assembling wooden skeletal prototypes giving my lion and gorilla’s appearance through metal-wiring/plaster-arts for stronger texture of Modroc
Putting together like Auguste Forestier’s methods as toy-maker, experimenting Netsuke’s evolution of Pokemon via mixed-media arts.

Influenced by Keith-Haring’s doodle technique
I’m bringing my creations to life in three-dimensional state
Selective works in acrylic almost a graffiti form of goofy-development
Setting up a stage of illustration-background much different from Haring’s New-York Subway experience.

Reading on a staging method of putting up a visual-theater Petrit-Halilaj’s role of developing a storytelling-artwork:

His creation of “Very volcanic over this green feather”
Originated from his family but Halilaj’s village were caught in Serbian-Kosovar civil-war and evacuated

Tate St Ives Exhibition:

https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/exhibition/petrit-halilaj-very-volcanic-over-green-feather

https://www.artsy.net/artist/petrit-halilaj

https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2021/event/jean-dubuffet-brutal-beauty

Searching into Jean Dubuffet who had a similar-connection when studying French-painting/sculpture due to idealistic form of directive aesthetics. Being embraced within so-called “low-art” might be traditional of adapting beauty in favor of more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making.

Well known into an art-movement called Art-Brut/Outsider-Art
Helps to maintain his role of academic-painting
Investigating oil-painting mixed with earth/handmade resources for French-doodle modeling