There was both highs and low for me while making these thirty studies. The lows of this project was the overwhelming feeling of having to do thirty studies and what was the subject matter going to be or the idea of the project going to be. Another low of this was looking over thousands of images on the computer and try to filter through them until I found what I wanted to work with, it kinda felt of like a waste of time. One of the highs during this project was when I finally found all the images and was able to start physically putting things together and to see the idea's take form. Another high during the project was when the idea for the project starting to became more focused by working through editing what worked and what didn't work physically from pictures in my head. It was a little struggle to get through the thirty studies. I got pass this by staying focused and budgeting my time. I also got pass this by learning to let go and be a little looser with the work. The strategy for keeping the project interesting and useful was that I had three different settings for the same idea that I was working with and a stock of multiple images to use. This allowed me to work fast through different combinations of compositions until I found something I liked.
The questions about my project that has arisen as a result of making the thirty studies for me are how to use the different techniques in the historical language of painting and how to combine them into a way that is interesting and doesn’t look like a jumbled mess. Another questions about my project that has arisen as a result of making the thirty studies for me are how to paint the techniques that I plan to use in my paintings that I have never done before. I will have to learn them. I also believe I will be have many questions during this project because this is an all new subject matter for me, that’s all on me, and I have questions of composition, size, and does what I’m doing even work as a painting. I plan to work through these questions by experimentation, talks with the teacher and T.A., and also taking notes from feedback during critiques.
The first contemporary artist that I am influenced by for this project is Dexter Dalwood
I believe that his work is comparable to mine because we are both using the history of oil painting language and technique to attempt to create a narrative. I think a difference is that I don't think he is trying to create an uneasy feeling into the viewer like I am.
The Second contemporary artist that is an influence for me during this project is Martin Mull
I believe that his work is comparable to mine because we are both try to instill in the viewer psychological uneasiness by confronting audiences with the juxtaposition of images. I feel in that we differ in that he isn't using multiple painting techniques in his work.
Another contemporary artist that is an influence for this project is Angela Defresne
I believe that her work is comparable to mine because she is using painting technique to express a feeling to the viewer. I believe we differ in that I plan to use realism in my paintings, but would love to learn to be so loose and expressive with the paint the way she is.
The final contemporary artist that is an influence for this work is David Salle
I believe that his work is comparable to mine because we are both making paintings that are a collage of different images that look like a collage which creates a narrative for the viewer. I believe that we are different in that his work takes the collage look to the limit and I don't know if I do that yet.
