'Masters of Chaos' For this project assignment titled ‘Masters of Chaos’, we had to decide a theme which links to ‘Shamanism’ I have chosen to focus my research and artwork around ‘Witchcraft’; Wicca and animalism (animals). What interested me about this project theme was the opportunity to experiment with other materials and methods other than just painting or acrylics, I wanted to push further in creating a final piece with more mixed media. This consisted of the use of dead animal’s bones, skulls and parts that are symbolic in that nature usually used in spiritual practices, and animal skulls and bones being a strong belief in animal spirituality and decease in Witch cultures. An overall success in the making of my artwork, were the black mono-prints of the animal skulls, this worked well in my progression towards my final because the images came out clear and detailed, with the effect of the smudged black ink, it created a dramatic theme, to portray death. One thing that didn’t really work out was white mono-printing technique on black paper, this was because I had tested it out a few times but there the overall turnout would be too faded or too smudged, this was a problem as the ink didn’t highlight much detail and caused sections to smudge out that part of the image, also played around with black prints of cat skulls on canvas paper, which created a clear image, however was less defined by the ink, causing it to look faded and quite dull. I began working with pen and watercolours for some of my initial ideas, and wanted to design a print and add a watered down effect, to portray ageing and decay, mostly working with browns and nudes, I preferred the natural colours that created a realistic look. One Artist whom I gathered some of these examples from is a mixed media artist Dorothea Tanning, whose work entails a range of mediums to express, such as sculpture, printmaking and painting. Some of her print work caught my attention the most, the dark ink prints are oddly presented and give a sort of distorted and misarranged style, I could make them out to be abstract shapes or of humanly figures, constructing it to seem very over dramatic in the form of movement as well as in depth. My final piece was a representation of how animals are used in spiritual practices, animalism and an ‘Evil’ look into ‘Witchcraft’. I constructed my piece out of black and red mono-prints, using 3 separate sheets of card and joined them together to form a human like body, with the head of a Ram skull. I had also used a few symbols, such as the goddess, divinity and witches foot/pentagram. One thing that I found to be most successful about my final piece is how clear the body structure came out in mono-prints, the smudged effect around the body and skull created a strange dramatic effect, which still sharpened the lines in the horns and ribs area. the lines and shading. However I didn’t have the chance to add in feathers, to hang from the skull horns, preferably real/fake feathers on string, for realism, this was to enhance the overall feel of the piece, as they are seen as something beautiful and innocent, which is the opposite of what I was aiming for about this piece, however it adds an interesting concept about the relationship between good and evil.
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