EP WEEK3 day1 (wed)

studio very nest like!

starting a slightly different system here so i don't end up with too many pages in side bar, just one page per week and see if it works...... decided this will be far to cumbersome to scroll down so back to original plan....but have rejigged tool bar.

WEEK3 --- day 1 (wed) 9.45am
beginning to feel better but notice a resistance in wanting to start anything practical and would still rather be asleep...... need to remind myself that i have chosen to do this course and it is a real privilege to be able to do so .... so don't be grumpy and enjoy it!!                                                                                                  ...was in studio by 9am checking emails, arranging meeting with jill and jane, checking what i need to be doing next etc... this reflecting and writing on exploratory project is a more important element to me than i expected ... i am finding that i need a bit more time in my studio before i actually start the practical work ... where i'm not thinking about what i'm going to do next, it's more about getting myself into that head space so i can feel what i should be doing next. Initially I said I wouldn't research/read /think/wrtite about what i would make once i started project and rely only on memory .... but thinking now that this process not just about collecting/researching but about being in a certain place ready to start .... think some days it would also be good just to just start... perhaps it's to do with me not being a morning person and still being tired ... and needing to be nudged/coaxed into getting creative energy flowing??
I have a few thoughts, questions, fluttering back and forth ... more work on layers with acetate ..... layers representing different worlds?? ....using cardboard cut outs for collage- large/small? ....What is the story i need to tell? what was important in my formative years? .... why do i choose particular colours?? .... last two blogs looked at very different colours (wanderings/studio jobs, 7/8. 04.14)....something prompting me to read more on phillipe taaffe and david winters (perhaps this evening if time??)
I have a variety of materials to hand but at this point haven't a clue (and not trying to know) what i will start making at 11am. ... but coffee first.

bag of finds

aaaaaggggggg firefox/blogger just crashed three times and i thought i had saved!! i started at 14.00 and its now 14.45 so here we go again!!! its now 15.00....maybe i can't copy and paste pictues here!! would love a secretary to write all this up and a couple of assistants to make work under my direction!!

Had just started back after coffee when i received a phone

 callfrom local paper saying photographer coming round tomorrow at 10am and doing a double page spread on me and my art in next weeks local paper.... help!!!! .... worked hard to put this right out of mind and focus on artwork.

after coffee at 11.00 as i sat wondering for a mo, i saw bag of found bits from my 7 nightstay on bird sanctuary (calf of man 2012) and knew this was where i was to go next but couldn't remember whet i'd collected as never had time to explore further....can it really be 15.30 and i have just managed to download 5 photos!!!
                                        

 i wish i knew the logic behing where my scans/ photos get placed!! and how blogger thinks to position pictures and writing aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggg

scanned bird skull cropped

decided to go with found skull and scanned  then cropped image....liked the hole shapes where teeth would have been. image had layers of meaning for me - my time on bird sanctuary island for 7 nights; skull speaks of death an decay and how all life ends; liked the look and feel of bleached bone; felt cropping worked as emphasised shadowy organic holes/spaces.


                                                                          i might be getting hang of this programme ... just continue writing then move photos around????

took the cropped scanned image into photoshop and played with filters.this took quite a while to apply and save as files still quite large, but not as large as i was creating last week ... i want the originals to be big enough to be able to crop from. i enjoy creating new images from scan and spent up till lunch time making these.... i can get a bit frustrated/bored waiting for computer to catch up but it gives me dream time..... where something is being processed within me as well, but can't put into words at this stage.

below are the images created with picassa filters.....if i can find them!!
all the images on this page have been generated from this scull.

 Although these images look quite similar here on this blog, their details are suggestind different approaches i might take further and i would like to re-visit them and possibly and possibly recrop some. ...i would like to try printing some of these images, or similar,  on acetate (multiple printings??) and collage and painting. i am finding some of the pixelated images interesting and some images are reminding me of the universe and that we all contain stardust.
Today has felt a really frustrating day... mainly because of time technology takes. I also feel i am just playing when i only have online images to show and no 'real', hands on art made, but these images are about what i am wanting to explore, so i should be pleased with what i've achieved today, but.......

still have some time left today (now 17.00) so may well come back to it after a short break because it's sucking me in :)

(21.30) I continued playing with images,working between picassa,lunapic and printer and arrived at layered images which i rescanned ...i tried to print onto inkjet acetate and even though they had white strips, the printer wouldn't print on them, so i used photographic paper instead. (might work if temp. stick onto paper) The first prints were quite dark so i used scanner adjustments to lighten and colour balance. Think i might use some of these prints to work from tomorrow

i'm not sure how to record/share all the other images i madebut there are too many for this page .. anyway all saved to google+ photos. ... but here are a further selection...

 think i have generated quite a lot of ideas today and i'm quite excited but tired ... it's been a long day and i've probably spent too long at computer but photographer coming at 10am tomorrow, so don't know what i will get done.... i'm looking forward to working with images i've generated so far ..... think it's time to stop working on computer for awhile and need to get hands on with materials. I'm working hard on project at            moment but aware i have still a lot to do on  my essay  and ppp etc... with open studios the two weekends before hand in date, but i know i can manage it all if i pace myself...i've also got a week away to see family after easter... need to stop now andleave some critical space before tomorrow ... looking forward to what might appear next :) i feel i've reached the next stage in this project.