This collection reflects the 2010 Ontario Curriculum Grad 9 Visual Arts document in the following specific expectations:
A2.1 Students will explore elements and principles of design, and apply them to create art works that express personal feelings and/or communicate emotions to an audience (eg. explore the use of colour, texture, and/or space to express specific emotions) pg. 120
A3.1 Students will explore and experiment with a variety of media/materials and traditional and/or emerging technologies, tools and techniques and apply them to produce art works (eg. experiment with contemporary art-making methods and materials...digital images, and mixed media into their art work; use alternative painting surfaces and implements) pg. 121
For this collection I worked with a variety of mediums, beginning with metalic spray paint. I experimented with using spray paint on watercolour paper then applying watercolour paint over top to create a patina. From there I used acrylic paint to create the clouds and finally some oil pastel in some cases. I chose to use a monocromatic blue pallet to create a mood in my collection. I used digital photographs as a starting point but relied on my design sense for the compositions. The paintings are meant to evoke an environmental awareness and I chose to do a collection of skyscapes based on my concerns with pollution in the air. This was another reason for my colour choice, the clouds can also be seen as smog or smoke. This subtle reference to pollution takes the paintings from observational to meaningful pieces.
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