JOE HULL ART

(It's not sacrilege if they were scratched up to begin with, right?) In furthering my spin painting studies using a converted fan and the same paint mixture used in my acrylic pours, I decided paint on CDs and Vinyl records. The reason I did this was because both CD's and records are spun in order to create music, just as with this technique the paint must be spu in order to make the painting. I like the duality of this link and how well it compliments each other, so I knew this experiment was something that I needed to try. While mixing the paint I knew I would have to incorporate white acrylic paint because the paint would need a base. As the PVA dries clear, without a base the painting will be opaque and as the records are black, I knew that the colours would look very dark and that was something I didn't wan from observing how my earlier experiments had blended and dried without contrast. For the first experiment I chose to stick to secondary colours-as ...

"Spin art  is an  art  form that uses  paint , a canvas such as glossy cardboard and a  spinning  platform. It is primarily used to entertain and expose children to the process of  art  creation, although it can be enjoyed by people of all ages."- Wikipedia H O W   I  M A D E  A  S P I N  M A C H I N E   (my dad helped me but it was my idea) T H O U G H T S  O N  T H E  S P O N T A N E I T Y  O F  T H E  T E C H N I Q U E Yes-the nature of the marks made is random every time but, contrary to the popular opinion of people that look at abstract styles of painting and go 'I've got a monkey at home that could do that,' there are constants and variables to this technique that every artist using this technique will take into account. THICKNESS OF PAINT & SPEED How thick is the paint you are using? Essentially, the thicker the paint is the greater the force required to move i...

Salvador Dali was a pioneer of the art movement- surrealism . He was disowned by other surrealists (due to his non-politically correct depictions of Hitler in his paintings) but he didn't care because he believed he was surrealism. Beginning with paintings in watercolour and oil of landscapes of his childhood holiday destination-Cadacez, he later moved onto cinema and fashion and became the increasingly-eccentric face of the art world. He played the eccentric artist façade and kind of became what his art style is as a means of promotion. This paved the way for other fine-artists looking to become commercial-artists such as Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst. Early Life Dali was born in Spain in 1904. His mother was ill for most of his childhood and died while he was still young, Dali shared her fear of germs and he was consequently quite a timid child. However, his early work was commended by his mother ('when it's a swan, it's a swan' she said) a...

I had originally intended on attempting to repair the violin, but concluded ultimately that it wasn't worth it. In my A1 studies I dissected its form and tried not to be too precious about it. In contrast to the flat, matte images, an observational study from a live, 3D object is much harder yet produces more vivid results as you are no longer stuck to the confines of an image. Bringing the object into real-life gives the artist more freedom to exaggerate form and obscure what they see, rather than producing a piece similar or as exact as a picture. I think for the uninitiated, the point of creating work is to make it hyper-realistic-however it is much more interesting to me to make something more abstract.  *Drew it, this helped me to focus on the painting rather than how I was holding the object and meant that I had the same angle, so I wasn't confused of proportions I knew that later on in the course I would reference the violin frequent...

BASIC METHOD 1) Place Laminate/waterproof material onto a piece of newspaper.  2) Squeeze out a pea-sized amount of ink (water-based) onto the laminate and spread with the roller. If there is too much ink on the laminate then it will make a louder noise, the ideal amount of ink on the laminate corresponds to a quieter , sticky-sounding noise. 3) Roll out the ink from the laminate and onto a glass plate. 4) Lift up the plate and fold the newspaper in half, this will prevent excess marks around the laminate being printed as well. 4) Place the sheet of paper over the plate and use the hand baron to press the paper down, to create a crisper print and more solid a colour print. 5) Remove the paper from the plate and the ink will have left a print. TECHNIQUE Make sure there is enough ink on the plate to create a quality print, I made the mistake initially of being very cautious of the amount I was putting down, but found that a little more than the recommended was good for...