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GMU:Drawing: the natural-scientific gaze/Maria (view source)
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However I found the term 'drawing' to be too reminiscent of strictly traditional non-abstract media and also to be limiting creatively. To change this mindset I prefer to call drawing 'mark making' as I find that referring to it as this to have far greater potential to make a piece of work that I find both interesting and visually stimulating. This also gives me a much wider range of materials to work with, both mixed and traditional media. This helps me greatly as I prefer to create rather abstract and concept based artwork. | However I found the term 'drawing' to be too reminiscent of strictly traditional non-abstract media and also to be limiting creatively. To change this mindset I prefer to call drawing 'mark making' as I find that referring to it as this to have far greater potential to make a piece of work that I find both interesting and visually stimulating. This also gives me a much wider range of materials to work with, both mixed and traditional media. This helps me greatly as I prefer to create rather abstract and concept based artwork. | ||
== Early Works == | |||
Early on in the class we started the mark making process by recreating some images of different types of cells from the human body, taken with an electron microscope. I decided that I would try to represent these as accurately as possible, culminating in the below image. We then had to re-arrange the image aesthetically and as my mark making was 'accurate', this did not create a piece of work that I consider to be successful. From this I learned that an abstract approach to the details is best for this module and thus any mark makings will look much more intriguing visually. | |||