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For this visualization I went through my sketchbook and wrote down the places I visited most and made another section to group the rest. The four groups ended up being Lagrange, where I live, Peekskill, where I work, Outside and Other. I gathered the most data. I noticed that as my research went on, I gathered more data and it was deeper than just the things I saw. I noticed what I was feeling in the space, how the colors inspired me, how the people distracted me, how being alone changed my mindset and a lot of other things. Since I spent a lot of time at home and at work I had the most data. It was important for me to visit these places more than once because I was able to compare and contrast my feelings, people and how my day affected me in those spaces. I like this set up because it is a lot easier to understand and mimics my sketchbook.

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Pierre Bonnard was a painter within the Les Nabis group.Ā He created flat colored areas rather than creating the illusion of a three-dimensional space. Although he was part of this group that was interested in obscure symbolism, he favored and was fascinated with the delights of his every day life. His approach to painting is very similar to mine, where we are both creating simple moment of our every day live in a beautiful way. These intimate moment invite the viewer into our worlds and ask them to draw their own meanings or interpretations of what could be happening.

We also are fascinated with color and its importance in a painting. Bonnard would become so attached to a color that he would go back into paintings that he completed years before and add the new color that he recently mixed.

Our paintings are also related through memory. Bonnard paints from memory, while I paint memories. When creating my paintings, I usually have the image in my mind and use reference images to help me visualize the poses, shadows and lighting.

I would like to recreate my digital paintings on canvas this summer and those will be my final image for the show.

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Taylor Coleman

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Studio Plan Draft

 

Memories are funny in the way that you want to share them but you need to share them with the right people. I know Iā€™ve been in situations where Iā€™ve told someone a memory and they just didnā€™t find it as funny or meaningful. You know, one of those you-had-to-be-there moments. In my work, Iā€™m looking to invite the viewer into my memories visually.

Throughout the spring semester, I will be creating one digital memory drawing based on place and memory. These memories will be based on my relationship that I keep very private and focus on memories that are candid and quiet yet meaningful. They are not memories that would normally be shared but rather unspoken memories that define the relationship.Ā I will upload four in progress drawings per week as well as the final drawing. I will also include feelings, colors and objects associated with these candid moments. I will log these feelings for more accurate portrayals. This log will be the basis of my research for the summer studio session. I will be looking for feedback from my peers and asking myself which five digital paintings are the most successful in terms of colors, feelings and portrayal of a memory.

Eventually over the summer I will choose five of my digital memory paintings to use as inspiration for five large paintings. Originally, my plan for the summer show is to hang the paintings horizontally with the smaller digital painting underneath each painting. These paintings were going to be abstract representations of those memories using only the colors, shapes and feelings that I had logged and used in my digital painting. Now, I have decided to use my digital paintings as sketches and recreate them on a larger scale as oil paintings. I am hoping to finish one painting per week. That means I will have five paintings in total to hang for the summer show.

There are a few mentor artists that I have chosen for inspiration. Fredrick Church was an American Hudson River landscape painter that worked with Thomas Cole in his house. Church created paintings that were very realistic but also emotionally engaging. He took a systematic approach to his paintings, sometimes returning to the landscape over the course of a few years. I really liked the way that he used light and mist in his paintings. Theyā€™re very captivating. Iā€™m not sure if I could create paintings like these. He took his time with his paintings, which is one thing that I can not do at this time. His paintings made me feel like traveling to the specific place but it didnā€™t make me feel like I was there or that I could feel the emotion. That is what I am trying to portray in my digital paintings. I am trying to invite the viewer into a memory in a non-intrusive way, almost like they were walking by. His paintings were also inspiring in the way that they captured light and created space in his paintings. To me its as if he was inviting me into his own memories.

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I’ve been moving along with my research in my sketchbook. I have spring break coming up next week and just spent the last weekend by myself in Massachusetts painting and journaling. Its a very different experience when you are alone. Recently, I painted at a friends house and she asked “How do you do that?!” when she watched me paint. I responded with “I don’t know! It’s almost as if my brain shuts off because you’re here.” Other people distract me, they occupy my thoughts unintentionally. I can still paint, but I was painting from an image. So this was different. When I’m painting something new or from my imagination, I can’t talk to anyone. They can’t be around because I can’t separate the thoughts. They can’t be organized. Kind of like when I try to do math in my mind. It gets jumbled up and I get flustered. That’s one thing I’ve noticed since spending the weekend by myself. When creating my own paintings, I need to be alone. When recreating an image, I can still focus when other are near me or talking to me because I see it, I don’t need to visualize it. I’ve also been very stressed out lately, which got me in a painting funk. I didn’t want to create anything. But the temperature is rising and I just need to be outside!!!