Assignment Five- Finding a subject

In my past assignments I have mainly just done the work told and I haven’t really ventured off to my own accord to experiment and look into different ways I can use materials and express subjects in art not just sketching etc. I think during past exercises there hasn’t been a lot of creativity in my work and I seem to have lost my own spark in my art, I normally always express more creativity in nearly everything I do and in past work I have just done things to complete them so I’m not super behind, this is due to the pandemic and work and all jumbles up. With this exercise I would like to expand out and take more time to think of different ways to express my pieces of art.

In this assignment I would like to do a subject of mixed media leading on portraits, I think in my last assignment I enjoyed looking at the face element and working on the human body, I think it was my strongest work and if I mix that with different materials it should be a good set of art I can produce, as well as enjoy making. I think the material for the back ground I will use will most likely be in my sketch book and other forms of larger paper, I might experiment with a piece on cardboard or with a textured background just to experiment more. I will work with both lines and tone, I will try both and see how they look or maybe mixed the two in one piece, I want to stretch out with my art. I will be working mostly with both traditional and experimental compositions, different angles as well as straight faces. I am going to do both abstract and realistic work but I most like to look into abstract, bold colouring and strong striking art I would like to achieve. A lot of the lighting I will achieve from in this work will be artificial, due to looking into portraits they will be inside.

I have all the materials I should need for this work, I have a lot of different medias to work with and I will be purchasing other items if needed. Due to national lock down I will be using old photo graphs or online photographs of portraits because I can’t attend outside lessons etc.