Rachel Perry Welty

I went to the De'Cordiva museum and saw this artist and really liked her work

Week 5

This week I accomplished a lot. I stopped thinking about what would look good in my piece and just used random materials on my art work. No specific item was really inspiring me so I just found items I thought seemed cool. My objects was to mess up my artwork and from there I would find the strategies I liked and did not like. I also experiment with spay pain on my piece. This coming I am going to start creating my final piece, I just bough the wood to put my project on.

Austin Kleon Blog

I really like the quote, "If you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research,” by Wilson Mizner. Recently, I have been researching many artists to see if I am inspired by any of their pieces and often times I feel as though am I just coping their ideas and their work. This quote is saying that people take ideas from artists all the time, but it is not "plagiarism", it is just part of the research process for an artist. By taking other artists ideas I am just gathering and collecting some background information to see which techniques and images I like. From there, I can take those techniques and make them my own.

A strategy that was in the reading and that I have been doing more of is to just stop thinking so much and just create art. In the reading Austin Kleon says, "If I waited to know “who I was” or “what I was about” before I started “being creative”, well, I’d still be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my experience, it’s in the act of making things that we figure out who we are." This helped my to realized that the more art I create the easier it will be for me to find out what kind of artist I am and what strategies and techniques really work for me. My creative will evolve the more I create artwork.

Week 4

In the first new piece that I made this week I experimented with the sander. I painted black paint over my images and tissue paper and then once that dried I used the sander over the entire piece. I then experimented with putting other images and tinfoil over the tissue paper. After I created that piece, I realized I really liked the way my piece looked after I had sanded it and I liked the way the black paint looked. So, in my second piece I used both the sander and the black paint, but I changed the way I was displaying my 50's images. Instead of just cutting them into basic squares, I cut long strips of newspaper, colored paper, the 50's images, and magazine images and placed them all side by side. I then layered on the tissues paper and black paint and used the sander. I was really pleased with the way this piece turned out.

More Influences

Inspiration

I might try doing long strips of newspaper then tissue paper, newspaper then tissue paper. Or try layering tissue paper over the newspaper. I can also layer with strips of my images.