Art Sheet One

This is going to be another blog post about art work that I have done for my GCSE because there is a hell of a lot of it and I think it is a really nice thing to see. All of these pieces are by an artist who I can't remember the name of but he speciallises in watercolour and I love his style.

 This is my most recent piece of work and I did it using oil pastles and white spirit and I think that it gives a really nice effect and turned out a lot better than I expected. 

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This is the same picture but in water colours. I really like the background on this but watercolour is not my strong point, so some parts are not accurate to the original.

Surf Art

This is an example of some of the work that I have completed for my Art GCSE. Enjoy!

I never thought that I'd be able to actually paint this picture but when I found it on exposed monkeys facebook page I fell in love with the colours and the cloud formation and I had to try and it turned out a lot better than I expected. Exposed monkey is an Australian photographer and his facebook page and website are both well worth a visit.

This was painted using acrylics to achieve the strong colour and reflections and I used brushes, sponges and also cotton balls to create the effect of the clouds.

http://www.exposedmonkey.com.au/

This was also painted using acrylics and is another photo by exposed monkey but I changed this one up a little to make it clearer. I love the colours in this and I liked this so much that I painted it on a canvas and gave it to my mum for her birthday and it sits on her mantle piece in her room. I used cotton on this one too and also some flat top cotton buds to create the spray on the wave and all over the picture. 

Drew Brophy

 We all had to pick out an artist to copy the style of and I found Drew Brophy on google search and I fell in love with his art. It's so expressive and full of colour and emotion and I think he is a real inspiration.

http://www.drewbrophy.com/

I had to use a lot of different media besides my trusty acrylic paints so I used water colours for this and I built up the colour so that it would be be bold and I am really happy with how this turned out.

 This is another copy of his work which I love. I used my acrylics for this one and I really enjoyed painting it and mixing all of the colours although the wave was quite hard to blend the colours with. I especially love the sun on this painting and how it blends out.

I love this. This was the first piece of his work that I copied to see if i could do it and I just love how freeing it is. I used chalk for this which is a media that I have always hated but after using them for this I quite like them.

 This is the complete page that I did on the artist Drew Brophy. I love his style of painting and I think he is a truly amazing and inspirational artist and if you want to find out more about him, visit his website which is so impressive!

http://www.drewbrophy.com/



This painting is huge in real life and it took a lot of work and a lot of paint to create when I did it about a year ago now. We had to paint natural things and I was having a lot of trouble so my replacement art teacher at the time told me about what artists hundreds of years ago used to do. As art was so expensive to do, the only people who could afford to do it properly was the church and they only allowed the artists paint things related to Christianity so what they did was they painted a huge and beautiful landscape and then did a little bible scene in the corner and that was classed as okay. So what my art teacher told me to do was paint something that excited me. Something which I love and which inspires me and when I found this photograph, something just clicked and it was this which inspired me to do my whole theme as surfing.

Made of Gold

"Someone one said,
That a story once told
That these streets were paved with gold,
But unless you're standing on them
Or sitting on our throne
They mean nothing to me but stone"
Orla Gartland

A Place In Your Heart

No distractions. Just the blinking of a line on a page; hungry for the ideas which haven't yet formed inside my head. Seemingly waiting for some inspiration to take hold of me so that it can skim across the page, recording my thoughts.

My day wasn't the best I've ever had. I've got so accustomed to writing essays that I could diverge all of these reasons and analyse them all so that I could write a detailed conclusion but I really don't like doing that so, in short: My fears were confirmed today but it didn't hurt me as much as I thought it would, but I think this was because it was the truth that I had unconsciously accepted. I have also come to a realisation that, when I play my flute, it sounds beautiful. Beauty has a direct connection to the heart. Whatever you find beautiful holds a place in you and there is little that will make you loose sight of that love of beauty.

Beauty.

Wishing for a Never Ending Summer

Looking out of the window this morning doesn't give many promising signs of the beach day that I was hoping for. The sky is completely concealed by a lot of light grayish cloud but the sun does seem to be breaking through so there is still hope!
I go back to school the day after tomorrow and I will have to face the horrible truth that the summer isn't going to last much longer, and these days of sunshine may be the last chance we have to spend the entire day on the beach.
Me and Leah had just got into the sea yesterday and we decided to swim to the buoy which is quite a long way offshore and I have kayaked there countless times and gone out way past it in a fishing boat but I have never swam to it and it isn't really that far. The thing which made it a long way was our want to swim up to the buoy and touch it and as the current was pulling us in the complete other direction it doubled our journey but it was still very refreshing. We went out later too as we found this huge rubber ring floating way out to sea so we brang it in as the current had probably dragged it from way up the coast. We both went in this rubber ring at the same time and had a smashing time as we were just floating around in a ring of yellow. Then we went windsurfing which was awesome but we got carried to almost the other side of my little village by the current so we walked back as we didn't fancy swimming among fishing hooks.
All in all we spent about 3 or more hours in the sea and it was amazing but I was incredibly tired by the end and all I wanted to do was sleep. :)

I wanted to make Leah look like she was on my sofa in the middle of a park but the sofa was at a strange angle and the version I managed to change it on, has vanished!

The original picture.

 Tom really didn't want his picture taken but I caught him.

Tom taking out the windsurfer and me and Leah out in the rubber ring xD

This is Leahs blog as she has also recounted the last few days. Enjoy!:

http://alwaysfreetofly.blogspot.com/2011/09/last-couple-of-days.html