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@creative-generation
Aaron; best art day
My favourite session was our first session of life drawing as it was in my prefered art mediums (pencil and charcoal). I learned a lot about looking past what is really in front of you and only seeing line and tone, which was very helpful under the circumstances! I was thrilled with my outcomes as it was the first time I'd ever drawn an entire human figure and wasn't very hopeful, working on such a large scale was a change for me too. Aaron
Ellen; favourite session
My favourite part of the whole week would have to be when we did the photography and print workshop. I had never really worked with a camera so it was interesting to learn how to work one and how much lighting can effect a photo. The printing was amazing because again it was the first time I had used a printing press. This week of being part of the generation project has been amazing and I've loved every moment. Ellen
Design and marketing
Eilidh and peter Yesterday Peter and I were lucky enough to be involved in the designing and creating of our exhibition advertisement in leaflets and the webpage. It was great being able to contribute and watching it being produced by Andrew in the museum. I could really see myself doing a job like Andrews in the future. It was interesting and inspiring. Cant wait to get these posters up and promote our work! Eilidh
Favourite art session; Louize
My favourite practical session was the print making at DCA. Before I wasn't very excited for this session as it was something I had never done before so I had no idea if I would like it or not. I particularly liked using the fabric and seeing the different textures that was created from it. I overall enjoyed the session more than I thought I would and it definitely went by too fast, I could probably spend many more hours creating more prints. All of the sessions have given me more confidence and I have learnt so much in just a week, for this I am very grateful for the support of our tutors over this time. Louize
Favourite art session; Lucy
My favourite practical session was the photography with Ross Fraser McLean! Before I was nervous, but was really intrigued to find out what we would be doing. I enjoyed it a lot. We took photos of fabrics like Alison watts paintings and played with light, like you see in her work. During the session I was never wanting it to end, I was interested in learning more and was having too much fun. I knew how to work the settings of the camera before we went but I did learn how to set up the flashes and learned about the different types of lighting. Lucy
Favourite art session; eilidh
The charcoal and coloured pastel work on paper, drawing from life, was my favourite practical session. I have used them briefly before but this gave me a chance to experiment and create a nude drawing working in different ways with both the strokes and rubbings of the materials. It was challenging getting the compositions and the figure in correct proportion to begin with but it was amazing to learn so much in such little time. I feel I have benefitted greatly from this project already and have learnt so much including working better with oil paints. Eilidh
Favourite art session; jenny
The oil painting was my favourite because ive never done it before ive only used acrylics a couple times so it was interesting to see the difference. I did my first life drawing the day before so that helped me to understand the figure in the painting session. It really helped being shown how to mix the colours and the process to an oil life drawing and the blocking in colour bit took the longest mainly because the canvas was big. I had a little trouble with the foreshortening of the body and perspective but i managed to fix it. And the hair was pretty difficult too to get a dark enough colour without using black We didnt spend very long on the painting so it felt like I rushed the drapes in the background and made them up basically. But at the end i was surprised that it turned out very successful and life like. I learned a vast amount in that short period of time on painting and manged to pick it up well enough so thats why my favourite was the oil painting. Jenny
Today Paul, the Photography Officer at Perth museum and art gallery, showed us the museum archive. We looked at all the archived collections; including photography, social history, natural history and fine art. It was amazing to see how everything is stored. It's like a maze! Thanks Paul :-)
Today Paul, the Photography Officer at Perth museum and art gallery, showed us the museum archive. We looked at all the archived collections; including photography, social history, natural history and fine art. It was amazing to see how everything is stored. It's like a maze! Thanks Paul :-)
Art week, Olivia
Thoughts on the practical sessions: 16- 23 June The practical sessions of the first week in Creative Generation were extremely interesting and full of fun! It was great trying new things and learning new skills from the tutors. I found the six days both challenging and exciting. I've also learned lots more information about Alison Watt and her fabulous work, I have such a deeper understanding and appreication for her work. I loved every day and it's activity we took part in. I've met some lovely new people and made new friends during the week. Every day was great in it's own way, but i think my favourite day by far was the day we went to DCA and did photography and printing. I enjoyed this day the most as I went somewhere new and took part in two activities in which I didn't know a great deal about- mono print making and studio photography. It was challenging at times but extremely interesting and fun, the results are really special. I thoroughly look forward to our up coming exhibition in August, showing what we've made! Olivia
Using photography with Ross Fraser McLean to think about the light in #alisonwatt paintings
Mono printing and printing with fabric in response to the line, texture and form in #alisonwatt paintings at the Dundee Contemporary Arts print studio.
Jenny; Toby Paterson at Kirkcaldy museum
Toby Paterson, blog two. Toby Patterson I went to the artist talk in Kirkcaldy to learn about Toby Paterson's inspiration and to see his exhibition. Before the talk, my impression of Paterson was that he was a painter of industrial buildings and first found his inspiration while skate boarding round urban areas. When I looked at his exhibition i was a bit surprised that the style wasnt how I thought it would be like just paintings of literal buildings but it was more abstract and untraditional. It looked very architectural and visual aswell. During the talk i learned that more than one of his works were derived from one building/idea. Some pieces were birds eye veiw or small scale models His works were very structural some were strongly made with shapes and colour. Some were made of aluminium and printed with different man made textures. I think his works are very inspiring and makes you look at real buildings ,that most would find unatteactive, in a different veiw . His works were also very much masculine and simple with a meaningful background and origin. I enjoyed the visit i thought it most helpful to learn how others react to different ideas and expand on them and use it as inspiration. Jenny
Mixed Media, Friday 20th June
Going into the second day of mixed media I was quite excited for the sculpture part. It’s something I’ve never done, always wanted to try but never had an opportunity or the materials to do so. However I feel as if it was a let down and that I had much higher expectations, obviously great pieces of art take longer to create but with a bit of team work shouldn’t it be easy to make something that you’re proud of and that clearly shows what you’re trying to convey? The entire aspect of what we were doing confused me. To turn one of Alison Watts paintings of fabric or figure into a 3D sculpture was quite difficult. There was so much you could do but it would take much longer than the two or three hours that we had. You could interpret the paintings in any way that you liked but that’s something I also struggled with. Although i can see the value of it as an exercise, I prefer being able to look at something and draw it over and over again until I know that it’s correct. With being able to take these paintings in so many different ways meant that I couldn’t really ‘copy’ what was in front of me, I had to actually use my imagination which is something I’m not fond of since there would be no way of doing it correct.
Louize
It was so great to meet Toby Paterson at Kirkcakdy Museum and art gallery
We were really impressed with the Young Curators interpretation video as part of their #genartscot project
Toby Paterson at Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery
Saturday 21 June
Toby Paterson Kirkcaldy museum and art gallery
Toby Paterson
Toby Paterson graduated in 1995, aged 21, with a degree in painting at the Glasgow School of Art. Toby describes himself first and foremost as a landscape painter, but one who comes at this from many directions. The urban landscape alongside place and primary experience are at the route of all he does.
Subject matter
He describes growing up in glasgow, a city that’s ultimately Victorian, with victorian buildings. By the 1970s so much of this Victorian landscape was demolished. Toby talks of a view out of his bedroom window growing up seeing the Boyd Orr building at Glasgow University, a mid 1960s concrete slab block. Some details of this building feature in the exhibition here at Kirkcaldy Museum. He’s both intrigued and repelled by it. He also mentions the Pinkston cooling tower too, an important part of his distant landscape growing up, which was demolished one day while he was at school. This experience in the urban environment, in particular post war modernist architecture such as this, have provided rich experiences to him and informed his practice.
Toby explores these post war structures which have been viewed as failures or have no current use, in terms of both the political manifestos and utopian ideologies and in the purely visual forms found in details. In his discussion, he talked largely about key projects and buildings in Holland and France.
He says that in his mind, he’s carrying out a sort of subjective form of town planning, presenting a mix of abstract information which can often, in actuality, be more representational than the photorealistic image. He includes his drawings of building plans in this.
Toby at Kirkcaldy
The objects that make up the installation are a series of solid, big shaped plinths with digital images overlaid on them, relating to particular buildings, used as a setting to place new and existing paintings. The exhibition is a hybrid experience of a built environment with the traditionally hung works on paper and Perspex.
At Kirkcaldy, he has chosen to display both new and existing works. He picks Individual works, but combines them to create a complete composition of the space, to encourage visitors to move around the space in a specific way. He talks of a conscious attempt to play with 2d and 3d spaces, potentially overloading the viewer with visual elements and forcing psychological decisions, of how you move around the space, to be made.
One of our favourite works in the Kirkcaldy museum was the Red Tavern work in response to a kinaesthetic reaction Toby felt about the demolition of the red road flats in Glasgow.
Material and form
Recently, he’s moved into using Aluminium sheets, rather than his more established medium of Perspex. He’s primarily interested in playing with 2d and 3d, often moving beyond ‘simply’ paintings. An element of Tobys work which we really enjoyed is how he plays with scale as an important subjective device. This is also something we’ve been exploring through the work of Alison Watt.
Skateboarding
Toby says, modestly, that there are two reasons why he is here today; the first is down to Toby Webster and the Modern Institute, the second is Skateboarding. Skateboarding dictated the spaces he ended up. Both in terms of Physical experiences (falling over and bumping into things!) and visually what he was seeing around him. Both the psychicality of his paintings and the bold sculptures he makes comes from experience of forms in these spaces. How the light works in these derelict buildings in particular, and how skateboarding offers up an opportunity to find different uses for the spaces have been hugely informative to his practice. By default, he said, skateboarding encourages a different perspective on things.
Toby now likes nothing more than wandering around new places and spaces and getting lost. Photography and model making are important tools he uses for documenting his explorations of towns and cities. His walks and Wanderings now are equivalent to the skateboarding when he was younger.
Advice
Toby’s advice to young artists is not to spend any money given to you by galleries for materials at the pub!
Olivia, Peter and Anna