Panel 2 layout plan

 Here is my layout plan for panel 2, extending ideas from panel 1. 

I am planning on working 4 series

I am extending these series through showing covid isolation, staying at home/bubbles, physical distancing, longing for connection/touch, and using the NZ covid logo. I will continue using geometries and lines. 

The geometry and lines and abstract forms are inspired by Wadily Kandinsky 

I paint and sketch by music "Ylang-ylang" by FKJ mainly, just like Kandinsky.

The floating objects, plan colours and textured paints and child-like undefined paintings are inspired by Marc Chagall. He also inspired me with stained glass painting and a subject of love. 

The use baybayin (ancient Filipino characters) and showing Filipino culture in symmetry are inspired by Robyn Kahukiwa. 

My next steps are to paint my current sketches and build the series from there. 

Sketches arounf my Kaupapa creating series

Here are some sketches I had mainly using roses as a symbol of love, astronaut to symbolise the feeling of disconnection and loneliness of people, lines and physical touch (hands) symbolising connection. 

The houses symbolises home isolations, staying in your bubbles, lockdown, an covid physical distancing. 

Second Layout Plan for Panel 1

 This second layout focuses more on the rose and has a lot of explorations. I can refer back to this in completing the board. 

Very first Layout Plan for Panel 1

 This was my very first original layout plan for panel 1

Before lockdown

This is how my panel 1 was looking before lockdown and developing more series of works

 

Sept 19

 After painting a lot during lockdown, I had this on my panel 1

then... re-shuffled and got stuck on where to put which

Emulations

 Developing Ideas in Emulation

My Kaupapa

kaupapa

 This was my very first page of brainstorming for my Kaupapa. Through painting and research, I have developed my ideas to deeper and more meaningful pieces. 

And this I have developed my ideas further. Now, I need to consider about how I can make series and sequences with my Kaupapa using symbols, narrative, colours, subjects, techniques, etc. All my ideas lead to "love". I care about emotional and mental, the heart and mind. Because I believe that being conscious of your own self, being gentle with yourself, and expressing gratitude in everything makes life beautiful.  

Painting - Series and Sequences

This folio mainly used the colours red and blue and keeping the pieces dark. Using the main subject, a person, using red or blue. It always shows the back, the hands being trapped and helpless, the head or brain suffering from unbearable pain. The third panel shows the subject in a conformed room or space with endless space or limited space. The series of artwork can be seen because of its running theme with colour palette, subject matter and background.  Series of artworks need to link and work together but they don't have to be the same. They tell a story as you move along the panels and has pieces of artwork that work really well together, they have to be together to tell the complete story or for you to understand. Having all the pieces of artworks gives you the total story or purpose of the folio. 
 

First Baby Steps to Artwork

My Kaupapa is about reality of life, showing relationships/connections and love, and how we have limited time for these things on earth. The reality of life is a hard pill to swallow and slaps on the face, there is pain and sorrows but also there is joy and beauty in it. All these elements makes up each lives, seeing the colours of a rainbows on a grey sky after the rain, there is good and bad, and light and dark. These contrasts helps us see that there is life. I will be using contrast to show my kaupapa and other elements, too. 

Just like how I use negative spaces to show positive spaces. The blanks spaces of my painting, the negative spaces, are the dark spaces. 

These negative spaces perceives the darkness around the rose. The rose symbolising love, has darkness surrounding it. But the rose overcomes this darkness 'Love overcomes'. Within the rose, there are also negative spaces which displays how love can turn dark and has negative elements also. These dark spaces enables us to see that there is positive spaces. In love, we can see that there is bad because we know what is good. 

Bubbles give joy and awakens the our child-spirit. These bubbles are floating around in an empty space, representing lives in a given time. Bubbles don't last long, just like our life, we don't know when it's gonna pop, sometimes we decide to just pop it out. These bubbles are surrounded by negative space, and has also a negative space inside it. Underneath the white lines, is a space. Bubbles are fragile, so if life. But it is beautiful and enjoyable, the highlights on the bubbles shows that our lives has highlights, it goes around and also has shadows. These bubbles have different sizes because lives are all different, some last long but others don't. 

The ART OF PROCESS IN ART

I've started this painting but decided that the triangles on the background won't work how I want it to since I am only using one colour, white, and it shouldn't show any depth. I still want to use my negative spaces and with this, I can't show it much. 

I've developed another idea of geometrical triangles on the background to show the spikes and thorns that are part of the roses. These triangles are created by the white lines and they are filled with negative space, dark space only. The pain that comes with the rose, aka the pain that comes with love. 

Plan on Monday: 

-Paint realistic rose on a flat background of geometric triangles

-Come up with another thumbnail progressing from my ideas and finished paintings based on my kaupapa. If possible, start painting it. 

-Ask for feedbacks from Mrs Clemence

My Mood Board 2021 / Subject Matter and Kaupapa

 Mood Board - Level 3 Art Painting 

Notes

My brainstorm page

ideas page

notes from/about the artists

Subject Matter and Kaupapa

(Left) Dull, dark painting. The dark background makes it hard for the person to be clearly seen because the skin colour of the subject has the same dark tone. (Right) It uses bright, vivid colours where the subject can be clearly seen. 
Theme: Recognition of people. Left painting is harder to be recognised because of its colour tone of background and skin colour but the white coat shows it deserves to be recognised due to its position or actions while it was still alive. The white flower shows that the person is already dead. Right painting has a brighter colours which demonstrates how the subject is being clearly recognised with pride. The vivid colours and high contrast shows the bright life of the young person and the flower illustrates it's bright, blossoming future ahead. 

Left has a calm conquest over death and RIght expresses a painful, suffering death. Left painting used bright vivid colours while Right has monochromatic tones which sets negative mood/ambience of the whole setting, expressing so much sorrow and suffering. The background of the left painting is rich in life with waters and trees while the left painting has drought and dry land showing no life at all. 

(Left) It shows pride in the culture shown by the up straight posture of the bird and the designs on the bird's painting. 
(Right) It shows defeat, death, fallen, most likely in war. Colour depicts blood, fatality, and the stormy grey background shows a negative mood or atmosphere about the painting.  

Denotation and Connotation

Denotation is the subejct matter, what you can literally see with your physical eyes in the painting or picture as you look at it.

Connotation is the the theme or ideas behind the painting expressing beyond what eyes can see to illustrate the vision and thoughts of the artist.