assignment 2

 For my living artist, I chose John Scott. He works primarily in acrylic paint and ink on paper. His work follows a dark, almost creepy theme. Scott views himself as a blue-collar artist and political activist. His work focuses on an apocalyptic world ravaged by war and threatened by destruction. Furthermore, his work interests me because it has this primal yet articulate quality. He uses brash, large brushstrokes and negative space to form an image, often portraits. Many of his pieces have a skull and what I have deemed 'deer man' motifs. His work often takes up the entire page, only leaving white to form shapes. Sometimes, text makes an appearance in his pieces; such as 'abyss', 'I've been tricked', and 'love'.  

I find his work beguiling because he can take such a childlike manner of 'carelessness' in his brushstrokes and yet he turns it into something with such deeper, instinctual meanings. His work invokes a deeper, hurt feeling in me. 







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 2 drawings - observational and accidental  observational I decided to sketch a candleholder on my kitchen table using a 6B pencil. I decided to colour it with watercolour to try and show the interesting ways the light hits it and affects the colour. Looking back on it now, I should've had more greens and browns, and fewer yellows.  accidental I was honestly a little stumped on this prompt, I had a couple ideas going through my head on what you could interpret 'accidental' as. I decided to use coffee and a cup to create a bunch of rings and splotches on my page as organically as humanly possible. Then, using a paintbrush, I followed some of the lines to carve out shapes. To me, they look like fish but it's open for interpretation. I generally do not do abstract art so this was a challenge for me.
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