Proposal

Review

During my Foundation in Art and Design my approach to work has matured greatly. I’ve discovered new artists, such as Gehard Richter, who has become such a big influence on my work. I’ve also picked up many new skills including print making and keeping a blog. I’ve had the opportunity to visit many art galleries including the Saatchi Gallery. My FMP will allow me to continue building up a log of primary research, and allow me to further my experimentation into materials and processes. I aim to overcome past issue by asking my tutors for advice, and being patient with things. 


Ideas and Concepts

I’ve chosen to continue and to develop a theme based on skies for my FMP. I’ve learnt a lot about paint and textures whilst creating pieces inspired by skies. I obviously need to take my work to another level, so I want to work on a much larger scale, for example on an installation. I also want to work with lights. Light is directly linked to skies and should look effective as part of a piece. My ideas are quite vague at the moment, so I could take a variety of paths, resulting in different outcomes. But my sky and light theme will stay prominent throughout. 


Contextual Research

I’m going to look to, John Constable, David Hockney, George Rowlett, Gill Rocca and Wolfgang Tilmans to help me on this project. The internet is the most accessible source of research, but not the most reliable. The best kind of contextual research is visiting galleries. In preparation for this project I’ve took out a Hockney book and visited the Harris in Preston. The primary research I’ve been doing is mostly photographing the sky and photographing sky sections of paintings.


Techniques and Presentations

The main media  I’ll use is paint, both for colour qualities and creating texture with it. I’m alos going to experiment with copying photographs onto acetate, and other various clear materials, and applying them to light boxes. This is a totally new process to me, but it shouldn’t be too difficult. There’s a chance I’ll need to position my final piece near plugs, which could become a limitation, but there is ways around it, like battery powered lights. I do want my final piece to be fairly large, so I will need a reasonably amount of wall space. 


Evaluation and Progression

I need to work on my reflection skills.  So throughout this project I’m going to reflect on my work briefly in my sketchbook, and in depth on my blog. I will also keep the majority of my research on my blog, along with descriptions of the processes I’ve used. I will put stuff like this in my sketchbook but only the necessary bits, I don’t want my sketchbook looking like a scrapbook. By the end of this project I hope I can naturally reflect on my work, and keep a written record of the processes I have used.