Reflective Summary

My honours project shows a transition from the depiction of pure realism to the integration of abstraction in which the personal focus is about creating engaging, challenging and emotive artwork.

Developed Skills and filled Knowledge Gaps

• Mastering colour and lighting (theory & craftsmanship)
• Traditional and digital painting techniques
• Compositional awareness
• Use of spotlight effect
• Glossary of art terms

Change of Mindset

• Change from focus on pure visually stunning/realistic images to engaging, challenging and emotive   artwork.
• Atmospheric painting
• Influencing elements from art history research such as impressionists’ view on lighting, Turner’s use of bold colour and atmospheric art, and the tonalists mystical, dreamlike, atmospheric and expressive painting approaches.

Observation and Visualisation

• Change of perception
• Improved craftsmanship knowledge and new mindset guide the observation, therefore one pays attention to new insights and different themes than before
• Development of aesthetic vision

Heterogeneous Project Result

• Though the main goal of the project was to identify one’s aesthetic vision as well as define a personal art style, the more knowledgeable I became the more experimental my next stages turned out.
• Covers realistic digital painting, aesthetic photography, surrealist photo manipulations and different levels of abstract art to complete non object related abstract art.

Overall Project Development Reflection

Since the project was quite open and broad, especially in the first stages but even now

towards the end due to the heterogeneous project outcome, it was sometimes difficult to

maintain an overview and chose the next topic or idea to look into as there are so many

options.

Retrospectively though I feel like I have come a far way since the beginning of the project as my

aesthetic vision has clearly evolved over time, just like my craftsmanship skills. And as

mentioned in the previous paragraphs there were a few major revelations leading to my

momentary perception of art, which I am sure will continue to change in future.