28 October 2010

TAKETH FROM THE CHALICE OF LOVE

Susana Gonzalez 2010
Finished!  I will revisit this idea in a future piece.  Keep a lookout.
Isn't it great to have a tool such as photoshop at our disposal... it surely does add a dimension to art that facilitates all our processes and frees time for painting an image that is in some ways pre destined to a certain feel and look.... but could it also stifle the growth of a painting if the artist then feels obliged  to paint what he has created on Photoshop... could it also then lead to different ways of thinking about a piece?  I am planning to use this tool more often in future, and see where it takes me.  I know that in the past I have enjoyed both the process and the final outcomes reached with its different tools and filter options.
Now the title for this has no reference to the the Dalli  Chalice of Love, which untill I thought of this title, I had no Knowledge of, but I love his piece,genious that he was in his field. I'll try to post it for you to see in the future.

Taketh..In progress..

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image Susana Gonzalez 2010
Just a sample of a piece that I finished this morning.  I had one of the experimental masonite boards from earlier in the year with the dark abstract background.  Unsure of where to take it, I decided that the "bubbles from my screensaver would do for a start.  This then led to incorporating my own Life Model sketches into the composition.  When I mentioned this to my Tutor, Peter he suggested I take a look at the work of David Salle(see previous posting). All good but then to move on to the composional stage of which images, how, where etc.  The image here is the final Photoshop composition which I then Painted in Acrylics.

27 October 2010

David Salle,, 1952, lives/works NY, USA


Whilst discussing my ideas for my the end of year personal assignment, I was pointed in the direction of this Powerful Artist!  Instantly I love his work and will be researching more of his art and techniques.  Thank you Peter!

25 October 2010

Sustainability and art

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image Susana Gonzalez 2010
                                                              
The piece above is the original final work for the sustainability assignment.   I then found the image of the girl looking into the abyss below, and immediately it felt right.  The girl is a found image from a magazine.

wave sculpture lovin it!

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/dG3s49vRzpbolklKDyqNpw?feat=embedwebsite


Check out this link. love the sculpture

Final image for Laneways Assignment

The Laneways Commision
This is one of the images, in total I have 5 at this stage, but they are brewing in my head and more are likely to emerge in the future.  The theme being population health, and health with the workplace being an integral part of our daily lives(I think we spend more time with our work colleagues than our families, which is terribly sad to say.) it seemed fitting to begin right there.  Are we tools of the system?  Are we as "free" as we think we are?  How does our work life impact on our home life?  Is time at work slowly encrouching on our free time?  These are all valid questions, with no easy answers.  I'm just simply making an observation, basing it on what I have seen and lived whilst on the busy, busy treadmill of work and play.

Laneways commission


Population health in the Workforce - more images

more of my journal


I think I'll finish off one of the experimental transfer images from earlier in the year with this red dress as inspriation.

Image below was used as motif on lino and embossed in several different variations... I'll try to post some of them later.




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rabbit skin glue on stretched linen

 We stretched our own linen for this one. a very smooth and tight surface, fantastic for oils.
 This is oil on linen, with mixed media, project. The piece is a bit surreal, a hand morphing into a bird, shirt cuff still attached. What do you do when you get into your front door after a day at the office? fly free..

24 October 2010

Journal entries- laneways assign.











cropped from journal. just thoughts on where it was going






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Monoprint


Transfer of image - oils on glass transfered to paper
experimetal process

Taj Mahal - India.


This was a Public Lecture at Melbourne Uni that I attended.
Informative, Lively lecturer.  What history, what talent the artists developed.  Such destinct art, intricate, full of colour, storytelling through art at its ultimate best.

Hagarths The Rakes Progress journal entry






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On the left is the journal entry for the first of the Rakes Progress series of eight. Flowers and their meanings are in the journal. Each character is taken up by the image of a flower, with its corresponding meaning.  Sarah is the Daisy, signifying purity and innocence, bamboo for loyalty, and the yellow geranium for slighted love. , the devil is the Devil Flower as per its name. Begonia beware is the unlucky bride,  and pride of place, the Red Geranium for Stupidity is Tom,   who loses it all and ends up with nothing.  Reminds me of stories put forward in the media of lotto winners!  Oh, and the jail will be obvious to you when I post all the final images.


Where do I get my Inspiration.. John Brack


Images and painting of "Collins St, 5pm." 1955  and the painting of "We. Us. Them" 1983
Seeing his works for the first time was a seminal moment for me, His art moves me, and resonates of a city work force made up of automaton population, numbed by the monotony and seeming futility of their circumstance along withthe alienation that comes with cities and their growth.  I can only hope to have just a tiny fraction of this talent of moving people with my art and if I can do this just once, then I will have done something worthwhile.

graphite drawing

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These are of a graphite pencil drawing and includes close ups of different sections.


Population Health in the Workforce-Laneways Commision














These are three of the images I developed for the Laneways Project.
Theme being Population health in the workforce.

Experiments with laying down paint


Theses images ( susana gonzalez 2010) were produced using two different methods. For the red and leaf abstracts paint was placed on canvas and either lifted off with newspaper, scrunched glad wrap, or any other material, and the lady in the red dress image was transfered on by use of
impasto medium. Great methods to start you off when feeling blocked for ideas.


BOSQUE BUSCANDO


Another experimental piece, with fabric glued on masonite boards with collage, acrylic, and ink. all sealed with bondcrete. Magic product for the easy completion of many a task in the arts world.
Title... Bosque Buscando.
Translated this means... "Woods Searching"


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Experimental - REEF DREAMS



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This is an experimental work from our painting class , on masonite boards
with wrapping/patterned paper of choice glued on with bondcrete, and sealed. Then I grabbed a paint brush and let go....Voila! from a Garish floral gift wrap we now have a happy, sunny reef painting for a happy place. Collage technique was also used.
I enjoyed the process of starting with something like the masonite board, covering it with paper/cloth/wallpaper/tissue/linen... really the possibilities are endless.  And then you have a base, an abstract one at that, from which to grow your picture from.  It certainly is a great way to work when you are stuck for ideas.  Just let the pattern dictate to you where to go, flow freely, and let the imagination take you away.

repetition in art - stamping


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This is a piece for the painting class. Repetition in any way shape or form was the brief. I chose to stick with my motif from semester one, creating a stamp from a lino cut from printmaking. It worked quite well. The back ground is acrylic and imitates the leather look of a Chesterfield couch, with the stamping done in gold. This will definitely look good on the wall in the study! 

22 October 2010

Royal Icing and ART - UPDATED


Ephemeral art from The Immanent Landscape Exhibition at West Space Gallery - Melbourne Titled INTO ANOTHER FOREST - by Ai Sasaki , 2009. The piece is made from Royal Icing measuring 6 x 22Mt. The room was filled with the presence of this beautiful art work, looking almost like an embossing on the wall. Ai Sasaki is inspired by stories of Port Philip Bay. Her work transforms the gallery to another place: intricate, delicate, a landscape full of secret desires and entanglements.


Her work reminds me of a book by Clive Barker that I read many years ago, titled Word Weave. Ai Sasaki Weaves words with Royal Icing, and does so with flair and expertise, engaging the viewer into another time and place.

Moving Images - Work Life Balance


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This image is a sample for the Moving Images Gallery, which is on Melbournes trains.  The image is of a busy worker, of to do his daily duty to his family, to society....but what about to himself.  We are so busy lately that we do not stop, we are over booked every minute of the day.  Life on the daily treadmill is for most a drudgery, and they can't wait to retire into their own life again.  Have you ever overheard conversations on the train in the mornings?