Martin Paints – Page 3 – A blog to record my progress with the Open College of the Arts

Assignment 4: Two Circles

Posted on 2024-07-282024-07-28

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

Posted on 2024-07-282024-07-28

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

Posted on 2024-05-112024-05-17

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

Posted on 2024-05-012024-05-17

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

Posted on 2024-03-15

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

Posted on 2024-03-142024-03-15

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…

Part 2: Collections

Posted on 2024-03-102024-05-01

Table of Contents Reflections Collections as Portraiture This section is the first time all the planning and creativity came together almost at the point I read through the section. From…

Terrible photography aside, a collection of twenty small square paintings each showing a different image. Blue skies dominate the collection, with a handful of bright reds, oranges, and industrial browns…

Research: Looking at Artists

Posted on 2023-12-122024-02-09

Summary Thoughts I got into this work and looked at a lot of artists, attended galleries, and read books, as I looked at what resonated with me and what I…

Part 1: Repeating repetition

Posted on 2023-12-102023-12-21

Table of Contents Reflections Focus: I find it far easier to hold my focus for hours on a single painting than to get through a dozen quick ones in a…