KARYN EASTON
May 13
by Karyn in Hand Written, My Work, Unit 3 Blogs, Zentangles 0 comments tags: Hand Written, Handwriting, my work, Unit 3 Blogs

Pen Drawings

Original Drawings – I’ve never actually revealed any process behind the textural images that I used on the elements of the ‘Balance of Power Mobile’.  I feel that now might be a good time to show some of them.  As my drawings were actually always meant to be incidental to my work I tended to neglect this.  It was just idle doodling on my part – or was it?  I found that I really enjoyed the digitisation process of the drawings and particularly cleaning them up.  I found sitting quietly with ‘Photoshop Fix’  and its excellent spot healing brush was really quite cathartic. As I mentioned in earlier posts I gave myself strict rules for these designs. They had to be drawn freehand and if any mistakes were made the mistakes had to be woven into the design and not erased or covered up. I’m not entirely sure why I self imposed these rules other than to make the drawing process more interesting and challenging.  Below are a selection of images from my sketch books.     A Selection of Original Pen Drawings
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Apr 22
by Karyn in Food for Thought, Hand Written, Ideas, Research Paper Journey, Unit 2 Blogs 0 comments tags: Food for Thought, Hand Written, Ideas, Research Paper Journey, Unit 2 Blogs

Research Paper Journey #1

Crafting a Research Question – I think possibly one of the hardest aspects of formulating a research paper is to come up with a simple yet powerful question.  What that might look like at this stage, I’m not entirely sure.  Therefore I think that the most sensible approach for me is to write down all of my ideas.  I have a number of potential ideas pertaining to ‘Information Overload’ including: subliminal messaging, overlooked information, hidden information, coded information, changed information, missing information and the list goes on… During a couple of our zoom sessions we tried out continuous writing and I wondered if that would actually help me with my process of defining what it is I actually want to do?  Below is a short time-lapse video of me continuously free writing for around five minutes.   Free Writing Exercise My ‘Time of the Signs’ project really did enlighten me about the sheer volume of environmental information that we are all subjected to on a daily basis.  This led me to query whether or not this may be having a detrimental effect on humans?  It may well turn out that it has no effect at all except leaving a ‘messy’ […]
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Feb 21
by Karyn in Artists, Hand Written, Zentangles, Zoom Meetings 0 comments tags: Artists, Hand Written, Zentangles, Zoom Meetings

Zoom Session 17

Guest Speaker Matt Fratson – This week we had a guest speaker called Matt Fratson who talked about one of his films.  The film was very interesting and also very thought provoking.  In order to absorb the film in its entirety we watched it twice and we did a 5 minute free writing exercise after the first viewing.  Below is my free writing exercise.  We also briefly discussed 3 useful websites which I’ve also listed below: a-n The Artists’ Information Company – information for artists Artquest –  advice for artists The White Pube – opportunities for artists   Five Minute Free Writing Exercise These we’re my handwritten digitised thoughts below. Interestingly I had picked up on the fact Matt hadn’t added a question mark after two of his text questions ‘Am I moving forwards’ and ‘Am I looking backwards’ the reason for this was that he had created his own font from his own childhood writing but not been able to source a question mark. Interesting…         Updated Zentangle Gallery  
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Feb 11
by Karyn in Abstract Art, Ai, Animation, Context, Drawings, Evaluations, Experimentation, Food for Thought, Hand Written, Ideas, My Work, Problem Solving, Videos 0 comments tags: Abstract Art, ai, Animation, Context, Drawings, Evaluations, Experimentation, Food for Thought, Hand Written, Ideas, my work, Problem Solving, Videos

Boring, Boring, Boring

Nothing is Ever New – I often tell my students about a great piece of advice that I received as a photography student over 30 years ago.  The advice was simple, but it has had a profound effect on my work through the decades. It goes like this…… “When you have your finalised brief or theme – go away and brainstorm 5 ideas and write them down on a piece of paper. Once you have your list, screw it up, or better still tear it up and throw it in the bin.  Why???…Because those 5 ideas will probably be the exact same 5 ideas that everyone else will come up with.” I now always pass on this little piece of advice to all my students. They usually give me a look of abject horror, having just spent the last two hours working on the first idea that came into their heads. Yesterday Noah, one of my fellow students, kindly alerted me to an artist who is working very much along the same lines as me.  Here is an Instagram link to his work. I am not really surprised by someone else working in my area of trying to marry up […]
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Jan 17
by Karyn in Books, Drawings, Food for Thought, Hand Written, Handwriting, Zentangles, Zoom Meetings 0 comments tags: Books, Drawings, Food for Thought, Hand Written, Zentangles, Zoom Meetings

Zoom Session 12

Steal Like an Artist – For a long time now I have been aware that in the art and design world it is very difficult to find something that is completely new.  There are elements borrowed from one piece of work that may be copied or changed to make a more exciting piece of work.  Even in my own practice it feels like there is ‘nothing new under the sun’.  I find there is nothing more frustrating to think I’ve found a great idea, only to research it and discover that actually I’m way ‘behind the curve’. However in today’s talk this became even more pronounced when we had some examples quoted from artist Austin Kleon’s book titled: ‘Steal like and Artist’.  Kleon decided to research into his own style of art.  He found that over the centuries there had in fact been not one but three other artists working in a similar way.  These were namely Brian Gysin (1916 – 1986), Tristan Tzara (1896 – 1963) and Caleb Whitefoord (1734 – 1810).  Apparently they had all been doing something similar.  When this is seen across the ages it really does show that nothing at all is ever new.  Indeed […]
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