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Still experimenting, I tried another style completely. Here I tried only painting the foxes face, as I feel it is representative in itself. I did not paint this fox being vulnerable, I wanted this fox to be strong looking , […]
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i then painted another fox, a completely different style, just experimenting. I chose to keep the vulnerable fox position, however I wanted to keep it much more simplistic, I chose bright bold colours. black and white and red to represent […]
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After lloking at all this, Ive found myself coming round in almost a complete circle with my beliefs and finding my art leaning more and more towards not using any animal materials at all. I began painting without materials. My […]
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I have found this project very “stop, start”, but I am still very interested in the subject , however feel I have struggled with what I wanted to say. And so I thought…. Is it neccessary to use “animal materials […]
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I liked these photgraphs as they were but I felt that they had not tackled the issues I had focused my dissertation on, the use of animal materials within contemporary art. Also the photographs were just of a fox hunt, […]
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I then started to think about first hand images that I had taken when on a fox hunt. the horses and the hounds are representative alone, but the colour red I felt was most representative, or atleast the red coat. […]
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I found this image from an artists blog months ago, and found it interesting, stupidly I didnt take note of the artist, but I still liked the different way of personalising the fox and it resulting in an almost British […]
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Finally, this month I have started to create some work relative to the fox, aswell as my colour work. I was still stumped as to what I wanted to say with my work, and how to involve the animal materials […]
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I have continued with old projects and slightly neglected my current project. I have decided form the beginning that i would focus on the fox as a subject as I felt it as an animal was quite symbolic of traditional […]
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I have to admit this project has become a little slow after my dissertation, i have found that i have not been ccreating as quick as i thought i would. However I have still been painting, but I have continued […]
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During my research for my dssertation , and looking at other artists I began searching for some materials I though i would like to use within my art. I looked for animal materials , which were difficult to source once […]
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After looking at Patricia Piccinini and her linking the use of animals within science and art I moved forward in my research into sciences that are considered art. I first stumbled onto TAXIDERMY, and began to research how taxidermy was […]