OCA Level 1 – Martin Paints

On Encaustic

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Assignment 5: Within the span of morning

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Table of Contents Reflection This was very challenging but in a good way. My mind is typically overwhelmed with ideas that are very unconnected to each other. This guided me…

Research: Looking At Artists III

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Grouping Artists Reading Artists Maria Sibylla Merian, George Shaw, Tanya Wood, Nadia Nebson Click a grouping name to jump to that section Reading Artists I chose three artists that struck…

Part 5: Collecting Flowers

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Table of Contents Reflections Putting in the time. My prior unit may have been rushed, but I think I took the opposite approach here — I spent too much time…

Assignment 4: Two Circles

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I was very uncertain about the direction of travel for my assignment, which resulted in me making two attempts: One rather abstract one, and one very much in the other…

Part 4: Circular reasoning

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Table of Contents Reflections Have I bitten off more than I can chew. Time has flown by, I’m definitely now late on my plan for this course — I’m going…

Assignment 3: Monotype Madness

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Table of Contents Reflection This section defeated me until I started working with the idea of transparency and trying to find a surface that would support that. I’ve created some…

Part 3: Adventures in Monoprint and Portraiture

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Table of Contents Reflections I think the BootCamp(see Supplementary Material) I attended helped me be looser with the core exercises in this section. I channeled all my ‘precision’ and ‘tightness’…

Assignment 2: The things I carry with me

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A jumble of objects and shapes, some floating, some resting upright and some perhaps laying flat and seen from above? Or maybe they too are floating. A jacket or coat…

Research: Looking At Artists II

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Resonance My tutor posed the question “What resonates with you?” and I’ve spent much time thinking about this. I don’t know if I have an answer yet, though I can…