Hi guys..
Its been a long time since I blogged..
Was involved in an animation project (
link). Will put a blog post explaining that very soon..
Recently I have been learning a lot about art history and stuffs like that.. I have always wondered what all those great paintings mean and why they are valued soo much.. in short I was basically trying to learn “art appreciation”
Saw
Pollock,
Frida and
Incognito and was truly inspired.
From my childhood, I have always been trying to replicate scenaries, potraits, cartoons etc on the name of drawing.. have never really tried to create something on my own.. in fact no one really appreciated that in my environment.. the more a potrait looks real, the more people appreciated it.. now after watching all these great artist’s works, I came to know that all these guys had their own style… I mean its very unique. Some trying to express in a new way.. some trying to create a new language and all that..
Then after long discussions with my room mate, I dedided to discover whats my style or way of expression..
One of my very good friend presented me a camel soft pastels. So started exploring by drawing crazy drawings daily… I really enjoyed this process.. had no aims as such.. no rules.. no one to impress.. I even went to the extent of pouring
odomos ointment,
soap and
mud over the canvas.. was really awesome.. felt like a kid.. you wont believe, most of the drawings were having elements what I already know.. I mean there was hardly anything new.. felt very disappointing.. but didn give up.. kept drawing again and again.. in diff moods.. tried to express anger, passion, love, hunger, irritation etc.. was a good excersise I guess..
In the later drawings, slowly something new started popping up.. I really got excited.. but again it was very less..
Nearly after 3 weeks, now I am understanding how difficult it is to come up with a unique style in art.
Did some photoshop works on these drawings.. was real fun.. loved those bright colours.. have never really enjoyed drawing and colours like this till now.. created some widescreen wallpapers from the drawings. Have listed few of them… will keep adding.. my exploration will never end until I figure out my own style…
We had a Sound Design Workshop by Rajivan Ayyappan. We were exposed to concepts like soundscape, sound mapping etc.. In the first few days, he made us roam around the campus and near by areas to observe different kinds of sounds generated naturally. Further we were asked to collect any waste / useless material from campus and explore various possibilities of generating unique sounds from it. Initially we were trying to make sounds with patterns which were sounding good but he encouraged us to get rid of the patterns and generate sounds which are absract in nature.
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