Friday, October 14, 2011
On Friday, my thesis critique group B had another critique session. I showed all the sketches and paintings, except "Bag", that are in my last blog entry. I explained that I came up with this idea of extending corners and lines infinitely. There are some sketches that include circles. I was trying to see if there was any way to make circles infinite; it seems impossible since they're closed shapes. While sketching, I could see some kind of relation with Piet Mondrian's Neo-classicism paintings with the lines and shapes. However, rather than simplifying the canvas down into the basics of just lines and the primary colors, I'm more interested in the infinite lines coming together to make new shapes and the balance of the mid tones. Although the addition of lines and blocks of mid tones may flatten out the image perhaps to the point of abstraction, but I see them as representational artworks.
Sunday's Work
I went to the studio on Sunday to transfer my sketches onto canvas. Perhaps because the canvas sizes are different than the size of the frames I drew in my sketchbook that made the paintings look unbalanced. While I was painting, I had some issues of whether to make the lines thin or thick.
Doorway. Christine Huang. October 2011.
If the lines are too thin, like in this one, I feel that the blocks of grays seem lost in this painting. Unlike the sketch, this painting so far seems far from finished and lacks filled in shapes.
Dresser #2. Christine Huang. October 2011.
I painted these lines quickly without bothering if they were straight or not. Then I painted in the mid tones. You can see that two triangles were painted in. I was trying to also show repetition among similar shapes created by the lines and more defined by the mid tones.
Dresser. Christine Huang. October 2011.
In this painting, I tried a little bit of using thin black lines. I'm not quite sure if I want to leave the pencil markings or continue the darker lines.
Untitled. Christine Huang. October 2011.
I touched up on this painting a little bit. It'll still need some more work.
Tuesday's Work
Today, I went in to work on my infinite lines series, especially since I want to submit them to the BFA Annual. I'm curious at the shapes that are being created when the lines are extended infinitely. While painting, I decided to scrap my sketches and continue painting based on the paintings themselves. In an image with so many lines, so many shapes can be created. I wanted the filled in shapes to "talk" with one another not only in tone, but also in placement and the shapes they create together. In the shapes, such as the long vertical rectangles or even the horizontal line at the bottom, I also wanted to create a sort of movement. I'm also leaving in all the error lines I've made while I was working out the lines. I feel that everything I do should stay on the canvas and leave it up to chance to make something.
Doorway. Christine Huang. October 2011.
Dresser #2. Christine Huang. 2011.
Dresser. Christine Huang. 2011.
Untitled Broken Up. Christine Huang. October 2011.
I added the darker shade of gray in the middle area, which is working with the bottom half of the painting. However, the top still needs to be resolved.
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