I have really enjoyed working on our personal projects as it made me actively independent and allowed me to use all the skills I have learned so far to produce my own painting. In a way it was like I was my own manager - I had to decide myself what to create, plan out how to go about it, choose what resources to use and fund them myself. For my project I decided to replicate David Hockney’s painting ‘Garrowby Hill’ to his standard. I chose this as I felt I could realistically get it done for the presentation date, and as a fan of Hockney’s work I thought his style would be great to learn about and would not be too hard. For my project I borrowed a book from Gary Fry called ‘Hockney’s Pictures’ which inspired me to go out and take some of my own photomontages, and at first I wanted to do a photorealism painting of one of them, but then I got a grip of reality and knew that was incredibly hard for me to attempt! However, even though I learnt a lot during this project and despite my painting looking similar to Hockney’s, I am not really happy with it or with myself. I now wish I tried something more challenging, and maybe I should have painted one of Hockney’s earlier works as his techniques back then was more advanced and more realistic, compared to his current which is a bit more abstract. So now I have decided that over the summer I will challenge myself to reproduce paintings in his earlier style so that I can further my own skills.
[Hockney's is the top picture from www.hockneypictures.com and mine is the one below]
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