I finished this first small series and I am planning on creating another small series for the month of Feb. I really enjoyed slowing down and adding layers of ink and small details to each one of these works. As I move forwards I am going to try maybe one or two of them to see how that layers and ties in with the work. I am going to try and use more numbers from the property and other meaningful things to me. 
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Work in Progress- Lindsay W.
With this one, I wanted to try the same type of broad paint strokes I did before (similar to ) but rather than do it on top of the image, I wanted to print the image on top of it this was also a way for me to test out how well printed images can turn out on an acrylic painted surface.
Photo Transfers
Transfer on acrylic painted canvas
Transfer on raw canvas
Transfer on gessoed/primed canvas
Work in Progress- Lindsay W.
This past week was a weird week as I was out one day incredibly sick and then had a snow day on Thursday (a true rarity in NYC). I found in the beginning, working again with some altered paper but as the week went on, I did more collage work. The second work, I cut out a fence that blocks my path every morning. I also got injured at work a week and a half ago from a student and wanted to try to turn my documentation of the injury into a piece itself (through digital collaging of sorts).
My latest image transfer was on the back of a drawing board that I had. I was nervous about the surface taking down the image and having it show up but it worked out pretty well. I also tried making the image larger than the standard 8.5×11 by splitting the image and making it larger. It’s a good idea in theory, but I don’t really like the line that shows up and find it pretty distracting. I’m thinking the net surface I work on will be a lighter one in color as the past two I have done have been relatively dark.
Work in Progress Week 2
With these, I wanted to try actually printing onto altered paper so I painted the paper before putting it through the printer.
This is my first attempt at transferring onto an altered surface. I wasn’t sure if it would work with my inkjet printed picture but I was pleasantly surprised to see it transferred pretty well onto the slate. Huge thanks to Brette for the slate!
In Progress Work
Current Artwork
I decided to try out painting similarly to my earlier feeling paintings on top of these super imposed graphic images. The bars create the trapped feeling I feel everyday at school and the colors (both of the image and paint) themselves reflect my feelings from that location.
Artwork
Continuing with the idea of observing place, I started doing these photo collages of different places/element of my school blending together. I tried experimenting with the effects that black & white vs color images have against one another. I’m not sure if I should also try to incorporate paint into them as I have been doing. Thoughts?
Photo Study of the Importance of Space
The past couple of weeks I have been doing photo paintings of my school environment, trying to paint my feelings onto the space to depict them in response of the location. As I have been doing so, it has forced me to look closer into my surroundings and made me think more about the effect that a location (and how it is/is not maintained) has on a person. The school environment itself is not a pleasant or welcoming one. It is dark, not in the best conditions, and often quite dirty. It creates a depressing, claustrophobic feeling, and looking closer in this environment makes me more aware of such feelings. The closer I look at it, the more upset I feel. So this week, I wanted to focus on the environment of the space I spend almost 8 hours in a day. It has forced me to become more aware of my relationship to the space/environment around me and the ultimate effect it has on me.
Current Work
As previously mentioned on my personal blog, I had some problems with my printer this week but the pictures ended up looking pretty cool. However, because of this it was also a challenge for me in painting over them- the image of the place was already “distorted”, looking unlike what it originally looked like so I struggled a bit with adding additional marks over it. I would also be curious to try these pictures again more correctly and see the difference in the two sets.
Current Work
During my last talk with Andrea, she had suggested looking more at Gerhard Richter and his painted photos. I thought it could be interesting to take pictures of my everyday teaching environment and paint on top of it. Over all, my school is very dark and can feel quite depressing at times. At first, I began to paint in some shallow ditches that everyday I worry kids are going to trip/injure themselves in. They also have been known to pick at the bricks and have thrown them at us as well.
I decided to push it further by going more Richter-style and create more visible brush strokes over the pictures. It really allowed for me to consider just how I feel in these spaces and how I can best represent those feelings.
