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http://www.pinhole.cz/en/pinholecameras/exposure_01.html http://www.mrpinhole.com/exposure.php https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinhole_camera Selection of pinhole size [ edit ] Up to a certain point, the smaller the hole, the sharper the image, but the dimmer the projected image. Optimally, the size of the aperture should be 1/100 or less of the distance between it and the projected image. Within limits, a smaller pinhole (with a thinner surface that the hole goes through) will result in sharper image  resolution  because the projected  circle of confusion  at the image plane is practically the same size as the pinhole. An extremely small hole, however, can produce significant  diffraction  effects and a less clear image due to the wave properties of light. [9]  Additionally,  vignetting  occurs as the diameter of the hole approaches the thickness of the material in which it is punched, because the sides of the hole obstruct the ligh...

https://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Make-A-Pinhole-Camera/ https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Pinhole-Camera https://learning-center.homesciencetools.com/article/how-to-make-a-pinhole-camera-science-project/ https://www.lomography.com/magazine/273239-create-your-very-own-shoebox-pinhole-camera https://www.instructables.com/id/Shoebox-Camera/ https://lanoirimage.com/diy-how-to-build-a-pinhole-camera/ The Newspaper Camera https://www.branding.news/2018/06/04/pinhole-camera-made-from-newspaper-promotes-photo-contest/

Research - one on one's. This week I need to make a decision on what to focus on and to ask: Why? e.g. Is it because I have I have a favourite artist that is inspiring me to make certain things? Have I discovered a method I enjoy more than others? It could be because I enjoy the movement of mark making for this method. Does a particular method or focus or series of drawings I have made affect my mood in a positive way? (Consider Time) I need to dedicate one day this week and the following weeks to just 'making' for this project. (Aim for an 8hr working day:)). Tuesday class time and evenings can be dedicated to researching and blogging. I don't know at this stage what I'm going to make for the exhibition and even the weeks leading up to it. It is going to be a week by week process of going through stages of asking why? I am not going to propose that my end presentation will be for example, exactly 3 paintings informed by my dood...

Installation - Class Notes Is this installation art? To answer this question you can ask yourself, are all my senses used? The viewer and object are nebulous in installation art as they both effect each other to create meaning. It argues you can be anywhere to view it. engages the viewer in everyday life and politics Merzhou, constantly changing, like active documentation, need to take photos or only in the memory context, the 1930's in Germany there was a changning political situation so Merzhou was the artist's alternative reality the web installation, makes the other artwork more difficult to see. Why ould he do this to his fellow compatriot artists? art as process... Kaprow, so art can be something that changes, or an event something changed by the audience, they have cretive involvment minimalism, the space the object is in is just as important, (it is like 3D composition)  the meaning comes after being viewed... creating a dialogue about issues e.g. femin...

Active documentation answers theses questions: what, why and how? What interrogation of what I'm doing what contextual info can I find to support the making process use a blog to document what I'm making documents questioning and decision making How at the same time as your making at the same time critiquing and analysing what you're doing parallel reflection take photos of work in process make sketches studies close ups use these for documenting evaluate what is worth pursuing or not make links with theory note where you need to do more research write things down as you work to be put in blog later record decisions Why capture accidental progresss or problematic blocks record failures aids in development of project it provides evidence of thinking keeps clarity as your project progresses aids in developing focus locates the context of your work show theoretical orientations Reflecting: on what went right or wrong, how did I feel wh...

Is the process of making paint a performance or artwork in itself? Who is making their own paint at the moment? What will be the environmental footprint of this project? What is the theory and opinions behind environmental awareness artwork? http://www.greenspec.co.uk/building-design/paint/ White pigment Titanium Dioxide or TiO2 is used almost universally throughout the paint industry - including both in conventional paints, but also in 'eco' paints. Titanium Dioxide replaced previously well-known white pigments such as Lead Oxide ('Lead White'). Its near universal appeal is derived from its high opacity (the ability to cover or hide). Less-used pigments include chalk and lime, which have very low opacity and therefore can require many coats applied to achieve acceptable opacity. Titanium Dioxide is made in one of two ways, each of which has a significant environmental impact. Coloured pigments Pigments are either 'organic' or 'inorganic...

This project is about finding and exploring a focused and specific question related to one's practice. It can be related to our BVA 203 Research project, doing the same theme and ideas but it will be more focused on art criticism and the theory of art making and viewing. For this project I am interested in:  doodling and automatic drawing. So I can research the theory of these techniques which are used to express the subconscious and as a method for developing ideas/work. (Making). This leads me onto:  researching artists who employed these techniques who were abstract painters and surrealists. How were and are they viewed/reviewed?   For example how do different viewers read Cy Twombly, (artists, the public and art critiques). (Even if I need to explore old art movements I still need to research people who are doing and talking about it today). For this theory project the main difference will be making environmentally friendly artist materials: ...

Tomasz Cuncvir (Poland) This was my first exhibition, "Nowa Ruda in a Matchbox". I built two matchbox pinhole cameras and captured the architectural essence of my hometown. Some black and white pictures were worked with watercolours by my friend artist Katarzyna Mateńska. (Exhibition - 12/07/2011, Public Library, Nowa Ruda, Poland) So I'm not sure if the watercolour images are watercolours painted onto a photo to colour it in or copying from a pinhole photo and interpreting the grainy image with colour? Anyway I think it would be interesting to try and combine the two mediums for a project on Invercargill's architecture. http://cuncvir.com/main#/pinhole/ About Tomasz Cuncvir I was born in 1988 in Wałbrzych, Poland. I have studied English Literature at University of Wrocław. In 2005 I moved to Perth, Australia and since 2013 I live in Germany. I am a bookworm, musician  and photographer. I want to be a „Total Photographer” painstakingly mak...

Ross T Smith ROSS T. SMITH: LINGER Ross T. Smith is well known for his haunting series of portraits based in and entitled Hokianga. For  Linger , Smith combines his architectural background with his passion for pinhole photography to capture the essence of decay; balance; and the enduring passage of time. To linger is an existential condition concerning time and silence. It is the state of not being ready to leave, in a moment of pause between two aspects of being; the here and elsewhere. To linger means to spend a long time over something so that it doesn’t disappear from your realm of perception and experience. The pinhole photographs in this series are of this nature. They are hand-made using traditional darkroom techniques. The exposures are long – 20-60 minutes – depending on light and location. The photographs are made in a cardboard box with no hi-tech interference at all; no lens, no shutter, no moving parts, no mechanisms. In his own way Smith is ling...

The speech I wrote to go with my powerpoint presentation, this was our first class critique... My idea is creative doodling in a non-representational way. I am really interested in this because it is  relaxing, experimental, fun and encourages my imagination. It does not have the pressure that I usually feel with representational work. Drawing like this I can create stories in my mind while drawing, and discover new mark making methods. In the process I hope to discover things about myself and my subconscious.  It is like art therapy.  I will try out different methods and mediums of doodling.  One method for  doodling is "automatic drawing". Here is a screenshot of a video I watched of a comic book artist, Tim Gula who uses this method to inform his work. He thinks that when the mind is relaxed it is at its most creative. Tim Gula used a graphite stick on its side to draw quickly, he said that he was drawing organically and it is like what one would see ...

Paul Klee  “Oriental Cathedral” Period 1932 Size Length20×Width51cm      https://www.asahibeer-oyamazaki.com/english/collection/054.html https://selbstwehr.wordpress.com/2014/12/07/paul-klees-symbols/ Seraphine de Senlis Klee initially drew cathedrals in pen and ink on paper, adding oil and water colors later. http://www.paul-klee.org/cathedrals/ https://www.frenchtruly.com/seraphine-louis-magical-french-female-painter/ Gretchen Albrecht Golden cloud Collection: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Format: acrylic on canvas https://digitalnz.org/records/1847869/golden-cloud

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/06/arts/cy-twombly-american-artist-is-dead-at-83.html American Artist Who Scribbled a Unique Path By  RANDY KENNEDY JULY 5, 2011 Continue reading the main story Share This Page Share Tweet Email More Save Photo Cy Twombly with his painting "1994 Untitled (Say Goodbye Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor)," at the Menil Collection in Houston in 2005.   Credit Michael Stravato for The New York Times Notes from the article: He avoided publicity throughout his life and mostly ignored his critics, who questioned constantly whether his work deserved a place at the forefront of 20th century abstraction, though he lived long enough to see it arrive there. It didn’t help that his paintings, because of their surface complexity and whirlwinds of tiny detail — scratches, erasures, drips, penciled fragments of Italian and classical verse amid scrawled phalluses and buttocks — lost much of their power in reprod...