Unit 4, part 2 - Futurist painting

Dave Working II, watercolour, 2012

Lisha & Johnny II, watercolour, 2012

Lisha & Johnny III, watercolour, 2012

Lisha & Johnny IV, gouache, 2012

Re-imagining the previous drawings of moving subjects as Futurist paintings, turning depiction of movement into abstract geometric shapes.

With Dave Working II I've tried to evoke the paintings of Duchamp, with a limited, neutral colour palette. With the Lisha & Johnny paintings I've expanded the palette for a more open and brighter picture, which I hope captures the warmth and happiness in the moment of two people embracing (well, one sitting on the other, you get the idea).

I experimented with the subsequent Lisha & Johnny paintings, in trying to simplify them, the focus being on angular and geometric shapes, on abstraction in this manner to the point beyond recognition.

Unit 4, part 1 - Futurist drawing

Man Walking Dog, drawn in a park near King's Heath, of a man walking his dog on the way past where I sat with my friend, Jason. This was the first time I'd tried drawing like this, so I didn't draw the dog before it ran off.

Dave Working, drawn at college during an art lesson, of Dave working opposite me. I can't remember what he was working on.

Abi & Co., drawn at college during an art lesson, of the table next to mine where Abi and her posse sit.

Lisha & Johnny, drawn at college during break time, two humans sit on each other, one holds a mobile phone.

Raghav and Sam Playing Yu-Gi-Oh!, drawn at college, in which a couple of college mates sit at a table playing a card game during a free period.

While studying Marcel Duchamp for my Unit 4 art course, I decided to achieve my own Futurist drawings by drawing while the subjects moved, often without them knowing, so the movements I have captured natural and unimposed.

It's a bit like taking a long exposure shot on camera, but drawing it.

I'm quite happy with how they've turned out, capturing the abstraction of movement, the obfuscation of freezing many moments in time into one single image.

Unit 3 prep - Colour Charts

Colour Chart 1

Colour Chart 2

Colour Chart 3

Again taking inspiration from Gerhard Richter, borrowing his idea of using blocks of colour to disconnect the piece from meaningful underlying ideas and pragmatics; what there is is what you see.

In my Unit 3 final, these pieces represented the deconstruction of visual senses as we perceive them, the divide between the intake of information, our sensory organ's job, and the interpretation of it, our mind's job.

Richter used mathematical equations to pick the colours he used, I used an online random colour generator, to further separate the artwork from the creator.