First Lino etching and Trace of Lino etching side by side.
Second Lino etching and trace of Lino etching side by side.
Third Image of Lino + Print side by side.
Childhood memories task.
Explanation: Bottom drawing is of Siobhan when she was 8 year old at her 1st holy communion.
Explanation: The mixed media sketch above the holy communion is of Siobhan at 5 years old touching afro hair for the first time.
Mediums used for both sketches: I used Gold & Silver metallic marker, Black and red pastels, red crayon, biro pen, pencil and graphite stick 6B.
Original image used to draw from for the childhood memories task.
Siobhan’s family photo for childhood memories task sketch created through my own lens from my own interpretations.
Sketch of Siobhan’s family photo for childhood memories.
Supportive mediums used: Metallic markers gold & Silver, Red crayon, Biro pen, HB Pencil and Graphite stick + Charcoal pencil.
The reaosn why i have used metallic sharpie markers was to have the materials used for markmaking was to have a cohesive relevance to the meteriaals with the metal sheets i’m using for my creative practice.
I believe that the marks and patterns i have created through the materials used can evoke emotions that can effect how people interpretations or scope of lens when viewing the sketch i’ve created can be interpreted, I feel the reason for how this idea can be shown is for example with the lightening and facial expressions seen in the drawing this can provoke feelings of excitement, incluosivity and freedom.
Pic of tunnel taken on the way to Austria.
Date taken: 2019 23rd of December.
Quick sketch of tunnel.
Construction lines for etching in Ply wood.
Pic of bathroom window with lines.
Baring resemblance to the same lines made in the etching process of print making.
Original image of mustang car.
Quick sketch of mustang.
Edited pic of mustang.
Supportive software i used: I-photos App.
Original title of mustang car.
Collage interpretation of the mustang car.
Supportive material used: I-Photos, spray paint and garden leafs and twigs.
I found doing the spray paint and using natures resources for experimentation challenging in a good way cause of how it impacted my thought process since with the idea of building a collage purely though the surroundings of nature having so many different components and resources in of itself being so broad…
For example Leafs, twigs, berries, grass, slate rock and soil just to name a few of many.
Edit of collage.
medium used: I-photos, twigs and leafs.
Art form used: collage.
Outline of design on Brass metal plate.
Engraved design on brass sheet.
Second image of engraved design.
Engraving on brass sheet filled with acrylic paint.
Brass sheet marked out.
Image of Ford Capri GT-1964 to be engraved on brass.
Design on Brass sheet marked out by sharpie marker.
First image of engraved design.
Second image of engraved design.
Ford GT-1964 car engraved in Brass sheet.
Third image of engraved design.
Clingfilm taped to brass plate for the acrylic process.
First image.
Second image.
Acrylic pains black and white.
Metal plate with acylic applied to the surface.
First image for this brass sheet being engraved over.
Ford GT-1964 filled with Acrylic Ink.
After using the images of the Ford GT-1964 car for my second plate I then went back over the my first plate to manipulate and distort the middle part of my first plate of Brass through photography and sculptural work for more experimentation.
Clingfilm used for the mustang brass plate for coloration of diffrent sections of the metal.
Extra layer of acrilic paint.
Material used: Unikrom Glow Acrylic paint.
Second image of clingfilm used for coloration sectioning.
Original first metal sheet manipulated through texture distortion.
Unikrom Glow paint.
Brass sheet overlapped & overlaid through four different perspectives.
First Image of Brass sheet scanned.
Second Image of brass sheet scanned.
Third Image of scanned brass.
Fourth Image of scanned Brass.
The next medium for experimentation that I’ve used is Photography distortion to minipulate my first Inc engraving.
Manipulation one
Manipulation two
Manipulation three.
Manipulation four.
Supportive software for these four versions:
Infrared FX cam app.
First photo manipulation.
Second photo manipulation.
Third photo manipulation.
Supportive software used:
Photo lab app.
Original Photo manipulation.
Supportive software used: I-photos app.
Original photo of classic car.
Quick abstract sketch of the classic car.
Mediums used: Gold metallic marker, red crayon, Biro pen, pencil, graphite stick 6B.
Photo edit of classic car quick sketch.
supportive material used for image distortion: I-Photos
Simplified explanation for process:
1) I take a photo of something that appeals to me or that appears unique.
2) Then i’ll do quick sketches of them with mixed media.
3) Then i’ll take a snap shot of the sketch i produce and edit the sketch through the supportive editing software I-photos.
I have found this three step approach effective in its simplistic nature because it is easy to understand for someone that docent know my work and is simple to carryout.
Whilst at the same time offering a lot of freedom to the individual, thinking in this way of planing and simplicity.
This method of working has allowed me especially during these debilitating times of Covid-19 manage things easier and clears my head of having too much to think about.
Also allowing me to be worry free cause of the structured approach i have become accustomed to.
Second semeser BA Fine Art documentation for my experimentation used to link to my theme of Urban decay and human dereliction in city scapes.
Nitrous Oxide canisters in their original form.
Nitrous oxide canisters bashed flat first image.
Nitrous oxide canisters bashed flat seconed image.
Medium sized Brass sheets side by side.
Original brass sheet engraved over with dermal tool.
Mustang sheet engraved over with extra steel glued down to the surface.
Nitrus canisters engraved over.
Second Brass sheet reworked with dermal tool with nitrous placed over the surface.
Second image through a zoomed in perspective.
Third plate of Brass largest out of the seven sheets of metal I’m using.
The other four sheets i’m using for a trial and error exsersise during my creative process.
Some car badges and extra metal bits to be soldered on as a trial and error but i am considering using metal glue sinse it’s more feesable of an idea especially during lockdown.
Extra car badges that i might use during my creative process.
Images overlaid on largest sheet.
Text boxes and images written onto the surface through black and red sharpie markers.
Medium used: Red & Black sharpie markers.
Extra metal bits on the side to be glued down to the brass sheet.
First image down and engraved over.
Second image drawn and engraved over.
Brass sheet fully marked with black and red sharpi with the writing and images engraved over.
Third image of large brass sheet alterd by camra filters through instagram filters and I-photos.
Extra bits of metal overlaied and glued onto the brass sheet.
First image.
Second image.
Bought some spare car parts from a car brokers in Wembley.
Used a stanly adjustable knife to cut bits of the steering wheel off to exposed the metal areas of the leather wheel then engraved onto the laughing gas canisters that i made flat earlier on in my process.
First picture of experimentation with my stanly knife.
Second picture plus 2 extra pictures of the steering wheel during the process of using the stanly knife.
Edited photos of the original first angel.
Edited photo of the original second angel.
Car steering wheel to be screwed down to the metal sheet with burn marks added for texture and appearance distortion.
The Loughing gas canisters engraved on and glued down plus the car Badge also glued to the steering wheel.
Was thinking of combining the large sheet with the steering wheel as a trial and error but didn’t work so under extra thought have come to the conclusion to scow all the metals down instead for my installation piese.
LOCTITE 638 metal glue.
This is the metal glue i have used to stick the extra metals down to the sheets during my creative practice.
Through trial and error during my experimentation i found that this glue worked when used for sticking the smaller metals down to the plates but not for heavier metals to stick to one enother.
CHCKMAX rotary tool.
This is the engraving rotary tool and blades that i have been using for the designs and marks for the metals i have been engraving over during my evolving creative process and practice.
SEALEY electric butane torch.
The torch I’m going to use for administaring the burning to parts of my metal work.
I feel that the butane touches have surved as a kind of pain brush during my process to add more tone and destortion to the acrylic filled metals.
The safety gear i have used during my process.
Safety shoes.
Welding helmet.
Portfolio update second semester February 8th 2021.
Mustang brass sheet resting on bench hook board.
Original image.
First image of the original manipulated through I-photos.
Second manipulation of the original image.
Bought a new Butane / Propane torch to add tone and distort the metal even more.
Metal sheets altered thanks to the butane torch.
First image.
Second image.
Bought some car badges from a car brokers in Kentish town.
How the car badges looked before being altered by burn marks.
Applied burn marks to match the sheets earlier in the process.
Found this metal skull in Camden town abandoned and applied burn marks that will become more visible later on in my process.
How the car badges appear after going through the burning process.
The artists i have researched whilsed going through my process.
Whilst undergoing my process i have found several artists and art galleries including the Frieze art fair and Sotheby’s art London.
Arne Quinze
Arne Quinze’s Lupine Tower, 2020.
Material used: Aluminium steel.
Reference link for the Maruani Mercier art gallery.
Reference link for the Lupine Tower and Arne Quinze’s story behind his work.
https://www.arnequinze.com/art-and-exhibitions/frieze-documentary
The reason why i have used the work the Lupin Tower as a reference point is because i feel his work relates to the creative practice i have shown through the consensus of the bashed nitrus oxide canisters and painted metal shown erlier during the process connected and referanced by this similarital aspect.
Gustave Dore’s Dante’s Inferno.
Reference link to Gustave dores Dante’s Inferno.
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/604743861/1903-gustave-dore-engraving-from-dantes
An extra refrence link for more information.
http://www.worldofdante.org/gallery_dore.html
I feel Gustave Dore’s Dante’s inferno has similarities to the crative process i have gone through with the idea of dark depictions of spirituality and loss shown linked by the metal Skull, rusted chain and rusted metal i found from a past project that will be revieald later down the line in this creative process.
Andy Warhol’s Green car crash, Green burning car 1963.
Materials used for Andy Warhol’s Green car crash: 90 inches by 80, Oil on canvas made of synthetic polymer, silkscreen ink and acrylic on linen created in 1963.
Part of Warhol’s extremely gloomy sequence titled Death and disaster series.
Reference link for Andy Warhol’s green car crash.
http://artscash.com/paintings-51.html
The reason why i have chosen Andy Warhol as one of my referances is because of how the work of green car crash can link back to the ideas centred around the Neo-gothic and the horrific nature of tradgedy and pain this idea i feel links to the process i have undergone thanks to the bashing of diffrent metals and burn marks made to the surfaces.
Andy Warhol’s Silver car crash (Double disaster)
First image.
Second image.
Materials used for Andy Warhol’s Silver car crash: Reflective silver paint, screen printed.
Images originally from Sothabys.com
Reference link to Andy Warhol’s Silver car crash Double disaster.
Plus an extra reference for more information.
The reason why i have chosen the Andy Warhol’s (double disaster) to use as an extra referance is because of how i feel the black and whit apperance of this pice in particulr makes me think of the idea of starting from scrach or what lies after a berievement or in a sense the of rehealing that i feel also has ties within the creative process that i have undergone thanks to the image i have used in first term of the black and white “filtered Tunnel” depicting darkness along the journey then as you get closer light is slowely revealed.
Ricarda Vidal’s Death and desire in car crash culture book.
Etching by Juan Baptista Villalpando.
Reference link to Ricarda Vidal’s Death and desire in car crash culture book and Juan Baptista’s etching.
http://ricardavidal.com/writing/monographs/toc-death-desire/
Ricarda Vidal’s A century of Romantic futurisms I.S.B.N Number referenced.
I.S.B.N 978-1-906165-42-0
David Cronenberg’s crash 1996.
David Cronenberg’s ‘Crash’ (1996)
Sherrie Levine’s Caribou Skull 1947.
Material used: Cast Bronze
I saw the Caribou skull in person back in Feburary 2018 at the Westminister Sotheby’s art gallery, Sherrie Levine’s Caribou Skull was on desplay to the public on the 7th of march 2018 at the Contemporary art evening Auction London.
Reference links to Sherrie Levine’s Caribou skull.
https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6075499
https://www.simonleegallery.com/artists/40-sherrie-levine/works/4065/
Originally was going to glue all the metal sheets together with metal glue Loctite 638 glue but the plates didn’t hold so it was a trial and error.
Since i had extra sheets of metal i used them to enhance my backdrop through adding acrylic and engraving desighns into them also.
My first two blank sheets.
Silver and Copper plate drawn on by sharpie markers.
First image.
Second image.
Third image.
Medium used Blck and red sharpi pens, Copper and nickel silver sheets.
Metal sheets engraved over the sharpie markers.
Copper and nickel silver sheets filled with acrylic ink.
First image.
Second image.
Two metal plates of gilding engraved over and drawn on by black sharpie markers.
First image.
Second image.
Third image.
Both sheets of gilding metal filed with acrylic paint.
First image.
Second image.
Nickel silver and brass sheet drawn on by black sharpie marker.
First image.
Nickel silver and Brass plate engraved over the lines made by the sharpie pen.
Second image.
Third Image.
Filled the Brass and nickel silver sheets with acrylic paint.
First image.
Second image.
Lines drawn on gilding and copper plates through the use of green blue and black sharpie markers.
First image.
Drawn lines on these two sheets of metal with the sharpi markr and repeated the same process.
Metal on the left is a copper sheet and the metal on the right is a guilding metal sheet.
The sharpies used was Green, Blue and black for marking the patterns.
Since the trial and error from before didn’t work i used a thick wooden board instead for a backdrop to support my metal engraved installation taking photos with different effects to show different perspectives and views with the metals left unscrowed.
Original photo.
First photo edit.
Second photo edit.
Third photo edit.
Photo taken before the car steering wheel, metal skull and G.T.I car badge was burned.
Original photo taken from before.
The reason why i took a photo of these pices some of which before i burned them was to show a comparison from before and after and to show how the views and perspectives differ from an observational scope of things.
The next stage to my process is the finishing touches were i will be using drill Screws / nuts & bolts to hold my final pice together.
Progress update.
Wednesday 17th of February.
Close up of burned steering wheel.
Gilding steel plate with holes drilled.
Burnt car badges plus scarched in Mercury-Cadmium car part to show Urban decay.
G.T.I car badge before it was burned.
Burn marks added to the G.T.I car badge to show Urban decay.
The route 66 car badge before burn marks were added.
Burn marks added to the route 66 car badge to show Urban decay along with devil tail and horn car stickers coloured by Black and red Sharpie.
What the TURBO car badge looked like before the burn marks were added.
Burn marks added to the Turbo car badge to show Urban decay.
WOLF car badge before burn marks were added.
Burn marks added to the Wolf car badge logo to relate to Urban decay.
Extra metals that I’ve bashed with my club hammer to relate back again to the theme Urban decay and human dereliction.
From a flat perspective.
Alteration one through the use of an Amazon club hammer through the perspective of an areal view.
Side view of alterd metals.
Extra metals that I’ve bashed with my club hammer to relate back again to the theme Urban decay and human dereliction.
I have overall enjoyed using these destructive resources to create contructive artwork because i feel that i have added value to materials that were once itemes used for everyday mondane living and have tuned them into something greater then its prior function.
This is the way of thinking i have utilised when second term started that i feel i have pushed myself to uphold no matter how much my environment and things out of my control effected or challenged me to use the resources i had.
Challenges including bad wither specifically heavy rain, heavy snow fall and limited access to resources thanks to lockdown that has not only proven to be a destruptive time period for it slowing down my process but also a motivasional time period were the challenges forces you to double down and work even harder then you would under normal circumstances.
Car badges and extra metals ontop of copper plate.
Burned car badges to be glued to to the metals surface.
Original photo of metal piping.
Smashed metal piping before and after.
First image.
Second Image of metal piping taken after the utalisation of the amazon club hammer.
Second image.
Smashed metal piping taken from different perspectives.
Third image.
Fourth image.
Fifth image.
Dark and light perspectives for the larger brass plate.
Photo with the flash on.
First image.
Photo with the flash off.
Second image.
Natural room lighting.
Third image.
During my process of using Acrylic on metal i thought it would be intreating to use a painting to add to my process through using alternaative resources to link back to my theme Urban decay and human dereliction through the idea of the aftermaths of unforseen crashes through bereavements.
Soil / mud painting.
First Image for process.
Soil / mud painting.
Second Image for process.
Soil / mud painting.
Third Image for process.
The reason why i thought mud would be an effective medium to use for this specific part of my process is thanks to how the idea of soil as a medium is the exact same material for what is used when preserving the body of the diseased during funerals using the dirt for the cars logo to also reaffirm the idea of car crashes and how the medium used linking to nature has a polar opposites meaning to the mustang so using the two ideas in a simplistic way could also be diseased or seen as the depiction of Yin and Yang or natures light vs Urbanised man made darkness.
Bashed metal sheet by the use of a club hammer.
First image with screws and bolts added.
Second Image with a stainless steel chain wrapped around its surface.
The reason as to why i have chosen a used a stainless steel chain during my process is because i feel it has visual connections to symbolise the idea of car crashes being associated to the idea of fetishizing referencing back visually to J.G Ballard’s book crash.
J.G Ballard’s Atrocity Exhibition, 1970.
Reference links to J.G Ballard’s Atrocity exhibition.
https://artinfiction.wordpress.com/tag/the-atrocity-exhibition/
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2020/01/31/the-atrocity-exhibition-j-g-ballard/
J.G Ballard’s book crash by Zodie smith.
Reference links for J.G Ballard’s Crash.
https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/crash/j-g-ballard/zadie-smith/paperback/9780007287024.html
I.S.B.N number for J.G Ballard’s book Crash referenced.
I.S.B.N 978-0-00-728702-4
Metal skull drawn on with black and red sharpie marker.
First photo from a downward frontal perspective.
Image one.
Second photo of skull drwan on by sharpie markers from a slightly squed frontal perspective.
Image two.
Metal skull with the lines made by the Sharpie markers engraved over.
First photo taken from frontal perspective.
Image three.
Metal engraved skull from a side view perspective.
Image four.
Metal engraved skull from an aerial view with the full logo with patternation and detailing.
Image five.
Multitude of perspectives showing the metal skulls sharpie marks engraved over by the use of the dermal engraving tool i bought in first term through pre-planing due to lockdowns situations that are simingly out of our control.
The reason for why i have engraved on the burned metal skull was to bring more of a connection to the mustang plate i have engraved erlier on during my process, because i felt that in this way it would not only add more of a similarital relevance to the skull connecting to one of my pices but also increase the skulls value from an observational perspective.
Actual welded pice of metal that i recoverd from a past project i did in 2018.
Metal chain previously apart of an abandoned shopping trolly along with the skull pice and welded metal from 2018 overlaid onto an engraved sheet of gilding steel.
Found a rusted abandoned part of a Tescos shopping trolly that i’m going to screw into this sheet of gilding metal along with with the other metals shown earlier in my process.
The two metal sheets depicting the gas operated mustang car will be paired and screwed into a large wooden backdrop.
Both of these plates will be alined side by side on my wooden backdrop linked by the mustang car logo.
Along with the Burn marks and hammer impressions used to reference back to my works theme Urban decay and human dereliction.
Backdrop for the metals i’m using for my final pice.
Wooden backdrop bought from B&Q that i’m using to support all my metal engraved pieces.
The reason why i have thought of choosing the rusted chain, metal engraved skull and welded metal from my past project in 2018 to be displayed on one metal sheet together.
Dark and light perspectives before the final pice.
Sculptures perspective at night.
Sculptures perspective during the day.
The reason as to why i have taken photos of my work from a morning and night perspective, was to provoke or project the idea of chaos and shared pain that possess cutthroat and grim connotations, but on the flip side in relation to the shared pain aspect also delves within or relates to the idea of affection and belonging despite its cold and blood thirsty apparel from the outset of this large gathering of metal pieces side by side thanks to the shared pain idea, followed by the objects being grouped amplifying this message, each portraying its own story that I feel can be opening the conversation for a kind of bridging of the gap, between fiction and real life through the objectification of the car bringing something lifeless to life. .
I feel that the subject narrative through the way i have presented my work borders or enters to the idea of breaking the fourth wall, were each metal sheet tells a story that would relate to each other, and thanks to the collection being used in a slow and steady built storyline of sorts were the story of the car builds plate by plate, until you find the visual conclusion being the burned leather steering wheel, and through this gathering of metals and car parts is the Video of the Sculpture for my final project.
Urban decay and Human dereliction Images from a front and back perspective and Video of Sculpture for my final pice.
Images of final pice from the back and front.
Image one from a back persepective
Title: Urban decay and Human dereliction
Date: 15/03/2021
Supportive software used for filter was the I-photos App.
Image two from a front perspective
Date: 15/03/2021
Supportive software used for filters was the I-photos App.
By Leon Westbroek
Video for Urban decay and Human dereliction
Date: 15/03/2021
By Leon Westbroek
Supportive software used:
The Instagram App
Sound effects from:
SoundCloud.com
Title:
Ending life by Meanahennawy
The idea behind the tunnel for what it represents in my portfolio and how it plays as a key reference point within my work?
This idea through my research and own creative practice for Urban decay and human dereliction has become i feel almost equal to that of a domino effect or chain reaction for my online portfolio with the subject matter relating to the references used through J.G Ballard’s Crash and Ricarda Vidal’s book on Death and desire, along with the artists i have also used for referencing i feel has allowed me to create work that depicts the emotions used in unforeseen circumstances through a multitude of angels and interpretations, that i feel can open up discussions on how negative circumstances if experienced through groups of people don’t feel as bad and in some ways can be more of a bonding process despite the overall emotions being ones created from the bonds of tragedy and discomfort or loss, through this idea i feel it can be seen that there is light at the end of “The tunnel”.
Reference
used to relate back
to the photo from first semester.
www.leonsPicsMDX.com 