Visual Art

Art Gallery - Noosa

As a group we all made the trip over to the Noosa Art Gallery where they had a David Paulson display. David is an English artist who came to Australia at a young age and undertook formal art training in Sydney and Tasmania. The majority of Davids works are created using oil paints.

Whilst we were at the gallery we were guided around all of the artwork and complete a series of worksheets which helped us gain a deeper understanding of the work.

I thought this looked like a river mouth where there was a lot of fast flowing water.

This oil painting was amazing. It had been created to look like an out of focus photograph.

The Wheel

After going out and buying paints and brushes I felt like experimenting with shade and tone. I really wanted a model that I could play around with light and shadow so I chose to work with a wheel. This proved difficult to sketch but after playing with the light and dark areas I was happy with the outcome.

Shade and Tone

Experimenting with mixing colours and overlapping shapes.

Watercolour Experimentation

Charcoal Experimentation

In class we experimented with many different techniques of using charcoal. This allowed a lot of experimenting with shading and blurring. These were the results.

ROOMBA ART

A Roomba is a robotic vacuum cleaner that you set and it will clean your entire room or house for you. A new artform that has stemmed from this is LED Roomba Art. This is where a number of roombas are let loose in a room with an individual coloured LED on top and a very slow shutter camera is used to photograph the result.

Lucio Fontana - Spacialism

From 1949 on Lucio Fontana started his so-called Spatial Concept or slash series, consisting in holes or slashes on the surface of monochrome paintings, drawing a sign of what he named "an art for the Space Age". He devised the generic title Concetto spaziale (‘spatial concept’) for these works and used it for almost all his later paintings. Fontana often lined the reverse of his canvases with black gauze so that the darkness would shimmer behind the open cuts and create a mysterious sense of illusion and depth. (Wikipedia)
I really like this artwork as he goes beyond the 2 dimensional constraints of the canvas and instead creates holes or slashes within the canvas. Below are some examples.