Experimental Piece 3: Climb

Climb: Environment setting no.3

Adventure of a wanderer towards to the mountain, seeking the truth.

Processes

Finished painting.

High-Renaissance's importance and efficiency

High Renaissance is one of the crucial art timeline in history and has its effect towards to the project. This type of art is generally formed in year 1500 even though the starting date hasn't been written or dated. In this era, master artists were not just focused solely on painting or sculpting (artistic side) but other genre, such as Leonardo Da Vinci was also mastered and created many objects in science field or Raphael was a great painter and also an architect.

Pentecost - Tiziano Vecellio

Paintings with symmetrical buildings and characters with different postures always symbolize something immense, a meaning behind the painting. Why such light shining towards to this particular character in the middle? This could be explained by its timeline, it might be because some artists need to create transcendent spiritual figures and moving forwards to an abstraction.

Creation of Adam

Despite the fact of these grandeur pieces of historic paintings, there are still limits on how it can provide elements which you need to progress the project. The composition and the technique these master artists uses certainly benefit my personal painting style and change the visual style as well (even though it might change slightly), if the choice of genre doesn't match with these, which makes these use of style rather meaningless. The use of element, however, can always be useful for creating painting.

Tutor Meeting no.3

Meeting with a tutor - Brian Robinson

• The work that says something to you
• Focus on specific aspect, process, context to build up the framework
• Finding the context of any work
• Post production/rationalization

Priorities

• Developing my own voice - how this work shows what I am and how the work can tell about the artist (me).
• What kind of feelings can be invoked by looking at my work (from audiences perspective)
• Using the knowledge of craft, using the knowledge through deconstruction of other works: understanding how these other artists use their skills  and techniques to inspire and deliver their message through their work.
• By using all these, hopefully it will guide my work how it can start making sense]

What is it that your work is communicating about?

Tutor Meeting no.2

Meeting with a tutor - Ryan Locke

• What is it that I want to do from this project
• Outcome?
• Finding right research area 

Priorities

• Finding out the main outcome of the project
• How this project can relate to the chosen dissertation/thesis?

Research - Artist no.4: Raphael

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino

Raphael was one of the notoriously known painter back in High Renaissance time with variety visual styles and composition of the paintings.

 There are few reasons why this specific artist has been chosen as a research purpose. First of all, the use of variety of colour is rather effective to the painting in his particular style, as if the painting itself brings life and able to depict the story well. The other reason is the use of characters in the painting.

Environment: Well known painting, 'School of Athens' is an exemplary painting to show the coexistence of environment and numerous characters. Vibrant colours and correct usage of colour to bring out the maximum potential within the painting. Also, another factor to include is that the positions of each character. Each position they take is different and it either conflicts or works well to convey the story, especially towards to protagonists.

School of Athens

Character: The use of tone and colour in these character/portrait paintings are rather limited. Another weird fact in 'Lady with a unicorn' is that when the proportion of the character and setting itself is in its place but the use of tone and contrast within the painting is rather peculiar in my personal opinion. For example, there should be significantly a lot more shadow coming out from the character is there is a light shooting directly towards to the frontal side.

Portrait of himself

Lady with a Unicorn

Research: Video Game no.2

'The Last of Us'

Why this specific choice of game? Surprisingly, it has all of the environment locations and in different time line which is exactly what I wanted to do for my practical experiments. From here on out, I will be discussing and analyzing of these concept paintings what part of the form it uses the most and how well does the artist utilize this form in the painting.

• Heavy usage of colour green
• Dominates the entire painting with colour green
• MORE GREEN!
• Sensational perspective view: it reminds me of the painting of 'The Last Judgement', where the main focus point and every other elements of the painting gathers to the character.

Compare to the first painting anaylsis, firstly, this painting has a different perspective view. Visually, it seems it has 3 perspective sides (top left corner, bottom right corner & the character). This dynamic view provides the 3 dimensional aspect and applying the flashlight in the middle of the painting brings out this effect even further. 

Also, by looking at the main colour palette, heavy usage of blue certainly changes the atmosphere of the painting.

• One of the prime example of the hybrid environment painting: mixture of urban and rural setting. 
• Personal opinion: Maybe inserting mountain in the background while it's surrounded in urban area is rather unique, almost it doesn't really match with each other. For my own taste, it does not suit well in this particular painting.
• Typical urban environment square buildings (except the church).
• It may not be the most important aspect of this painting, character's vision field - focused on giraffes (not zebras).
• As for the colour: as usual, the main colour choice for rural environment was green & blue.

Experimental Piece 2: Adventure

Adventure: Environment setting no.2

The beginning of a journey after the war (no.1) to find peace and harmony.

Processes

The finished panting.