Art Update

For Art, I have finished my portfolio and this is the explanation of my artwork. My kaupapa is about water pollution and emission.

This is the first artwork in my panel 1 portfolio. Basically, this is like an introduction, the factory represents the idea of emission and a dirty water/sea represent the idea of water pollution. And also the man is like throwing a fishnet and it's shaped into a skull to emphasise the meaning that sea creatures are in danger.

The size A5 painting is the view of the factory from the small mountain. I intentionally paint the smoke in the shape of the whale to present the connection of the effect of the emission. As more CO2 is absorbed into the ocean, it lowers the pH balance of the water, causing it to be more acidic.  

I am happy with how it ended up, but while doing this I was not thinking of the size of the paper, which ended up being a size A5.

The first artwork connects with the paintings below. These paintings below are the common species that we would see in the social media that have fishnets around their body, therefore, for this series of sea creatures, I want to call this series "Preso" meaning trapped in Portugues. Even though this series is a bit far from my artist model artworks, as the patterns are in front of the subject, I decided to use the colours blue(background) and black(fishnet) as her most colour palette for environment or nature is aqua/sea colour pallet. 

Below the preso series is the series which I called "óleo" meaning oil. For this series, the black paint represents the oil spill that is from the chemical factory from the digital painting. The technique that I used for the first one is paint splatter and as for the middle painting, I put some black paint and then stamped it onto the painting to create a unique texture. The artwork on the right is a picture of a plastic that I moulded into the shape of jellyfish and then I edit it and put a picture of jellyfish. From my research, I found some artworks of my artist model that has dripping black paint, and this is where the idea of black paint came from. I just decided to have different types of patterns or shapes.

This is where panel 2 starts at. This artwork may look like it's based on Tracey Tawhiao as I added a paper, but the point of the paper is to represent rubbish. I have also seen the artwork of Sofia Minson that has a pattern of triangles and the pattern of my artwork is based on her. 

As for this series, I used photography(the first one), printmaking(second) and lastly I did digital artwork and then I tried to make an oil spill, using black paint with some water. This series starts off with water, as you can see it is clean water but then in the artwork below it becomes a drop of clean water mixed with oil, then it, later on, becomes a thick drop of oil. As for the last artwork, I have decided to put a vignette.

Putting them as a series or connecting them was not part of my plan, but then I see some connection between the three artwork, which make me decide to just put them together.

I would say that this artwork can be linked with the artwork above.

It may not be obvious but the empty Pepsi can is a picture taken by me then I edited it and put a tail of a fish to make it look like a fish is hiding behind the Pepsi can or make it look like the Pepsi can is a fish. I also added to put a group of redfish that can be seen in the artwork below.

This artwork is still linked with emission and water pollution. As you can see it is a mask that is usually used and found in factories. The glass of the mask is acting as a fish tank, that's why there's fish and the colour of the water is a bit dark. 

I decided to add some vignette effects by using a black water flow. I also tried to add some vignettes as Sofia Minson mostly used//add vignette on her landscape/environment artwork.

Lastly, this is the final A3 size digital artwork in panel 2. I would say that this is the conclusion of my portfolio. In this artwork, I decided to draw a shore that is full of rubbish and dumped fishing gear and dead fish/ dolphins.  I have also decided to put the factory that is seen on the first panel.