Inspirational Artists!

ART ATTACK!

So today was the first half day we have had, and if I'm honest I am the most tired I have been so far! I really am still adjusting to being a student still! When you are at work you are very interactive, yet at the moment it is a lot of listening!

Anyway, wearing a white t-shirt and hoodie (I had tottally forgotten we were PAINTING today) myself and my fellow table mates Andrew, Sarah, Emma and Clare, embarked on our 2nd Art class.

The purpose of the class was to learn about Primary Colours, Secondary Colours, mixing colours etc. We first took out watercolours and were asked to find a colour as an inspration and ty to mix paint to match it. It was a lot harder than you think and I ended up just mixing some colours and then finding things to match them to instead!

Here are some attempts that Andrew and I ended up coming up with!

We then went on to do do some printing and used West African "Adinkra Patterns" as inspiration. Traditional examples can be found here.

This was my attempt (I know what you're thinking, its not my specialism!).

Once we had all put it all together on a cloth this was the result, and we were all pleased with it!

Just to document what we had done in the first and previous art lesson, we had been talking about self portraits. Although mine does not quite look like a self-portrait it was the best I could do with the materials I had! (Art really isn't my strong subject!)


You will have to excuse the photo, I've not worked out how to rotate photos on a Mac yet but I'm working on it!