Art Exhibition!

We held an art display in school to present our year's work to family, friends and finally the exam moderators. 

Human form media experiment boards

*Blurry* Greyhound/Flood Canvases

Exam piece for project; Fairy-tales

Tally.

Some photographs of my beautiful greyhound Tally :)

Greyhound Triptych.

Needing to complete my triptych, I decided today would be a good time to start my final of the 3 canvas paintings of my dog. I wanted to paint more of a close up view of my dogs face, so after quickly taking a few snaps of her this morning, decided on the image below to work from;

I need to create greater contrast between the shades and fix the eye, but I'm happy with my start :) 

Colours for the background that I am considering are a mint green, or another variation on purple/blue to match the first. 

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I've finally finished my artwork! All of my AS coursework has now been handed in :)

In the end I decided on a mint green for the background, so my pieces can complement each other as a three or be displayed as stand alone pieces. 

Greyhound inspired art.

For my AS Art Coursework, it seemed natural that my topic choice was "Greyhounds", as I could base my inspiration around my own ex-racer, Tally.

 I did a load of research and exercises to prepare for my final piece(s). 

This included looking at closely linked artists; Terry Flannery, Lucian Freud, Giacomo Balla, Franz Marc, Eadweard Muybridge, and my favourite; Sandra Flood!

And here are my final pieces, with one still to go!

These two pieces were painted in acrylic on canvas, and with inspiration from Sandra Flood, for my AS Art Coursework. Check her work out here...

Sunset.

Just had to post this beautiful photograph of a sunset I took while camping in Taunton. After spending countless hours driving round in circles, unaided by contradictory road signs, we finally arrived at our campsite, and this view is what greeted us...

Fairytales.

For my AS Art Exam, I chose the topic of fairy-tales. I wanted to focus mainly on the modern portrayal of these stories in the media and of the modern day. Unfortunately my sketchbook was handed in before I could photograph many of the pages, however here are some of my experiments I did manage to record; 

A combination of my photography, and editing suite, sketching and painting; purely an experiment...

A wedding inspired cake, complete with wedding favour, and a removable lid concealing vows, confetti....

Title page/collage/experiment

Apple + self photography + editing suite...

Anatomy.

As part of our AS experimentation time, we studied the human body and form. Below are a few sketches/paintings...

Excuse the bad picture quality

Greyhounds.

Sometimes when I have no reason to be creating artwork, other that that of experimentation, I find some things turn out quite well. Here are a few random pieces I felt the need to produce; 

This piece shows the material side to greyhound racing

A very rough sketch of my doggy, very rough indeed...