My work

I haven't been posting any pictures lately because I first had to buy batteries for my camera. Anyway, this weekend I have been trying out felting but it didn't work as well as last time. I did learn from my mistakes though and I wont do them again :) I still have a lot to learn and things to improve on.

These are two pictures which are in my sketchbook in which i am messing around with watercolours :)

I did this one today :)

This one is from during this week :)

National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland 2012

On friday Patrick Horan and me, went to look at the "National Self-Portrait Collection of Irealand 2012". This exibition has been taking place in the University of Limerick since 1983 and has been founded by the National institude for Higher Education. The purpose of this event is to form a collection of self-portraits made by irish artists. There we also saw one of Michael Canning's works which is one of the first year tutors in LSAD. But, there weren't only self-portaits displayed but also varietes of landscape and still life paintings. I found it especially interesting to see the differen't styles the artists had in their paintings and the differen't materials artists used to create their finished art piece. Overall I thought it was an experience which was worth seeing.

 

 

I posted this picture because I just find it so amazing. It is interesting the way optical illusions work.

 

 

 

Concentrate on the four dots in the middle of the picture for about 30 seconds. Then close your eyes, or look up toward the ceiling. Within seconds you will see an image. Continue looking at the image…What Do You See??

Today due to talks I didn't get much work done. But, I did do work in my sketchbook and I also finished painting my little clay man.

 

 

 During this week I have been working on my sketchbook a lot and did some felting. :)

messing with watercolours in my sketchbook

An example of things in my sketchbook looking at fabrics, colour charts and pictures I took of close-ups of objeccts with textures

 For the first time ever i tried felting :P it wasn't too bad lol.

This week I mostly  worked on my sketchbook and did further reasearch with the artists I picked. Hopefully, this weekend, I will try to do felting and work more on my sketchbook. At the moment i am looking up colour studies and theories.

 

 

Michael Shapcott is a painter I reasearched who is known for his portraits. This is one of the videos that Michael Shapcott has in which he shows the way he paints a painting. I find his work very interesting and uniqe. He uses random colours in places I would have never thought of and makes them look great. I also added some other paintings he created.