More Drawing

I drew a Raven which apparently if it appears in your dreams represents betrayal so I drew one raven flying away from the other leaving the other one behind. The hands and the rose represent the power we give to something beautiful and vulnerable but we also give it the power to destroy us in the process.
My second page of drawings is a man drowning and the man above him is watching drown.

Exploring Artist Models

Exploring Artist Models

I decided to research on Rene Magritte and Marc Chagall as I found their artworks very intriguing and interesting. Also I like the way that these artist use surrealism to tell a story and convey a different way of thinking. I think I am more inspired by Rene Magritte as I like the way he uses the human body and fuses it with other objects, such as in "The Philosophers Lamp" I also like the way he paints painters such as in "Clairvoyance" , I think that it creates a really cool perceptive on the way reality is set out for us and how we all view the world. But I also like the way that Marc Chagall tells a story over multiple different paintings rather than having a whole story in one artwork.

I also starting sketching some of Rene Magritte's artworks along the lines of what would link the best to my story line and ideas.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.

Second Page Of Drawing

On my second page of drawings, (which includes colour) I drew a shattered mirror to signify that reflecting back on what betrayal does it leaves everyone that is affected broken, beat, and scarred. I also drew three different roses, a dead rose signifying a dead friendship/broken trust, the second rose is healthy signifying someone has given it strength, and the third is a healthy rose with many thorns signifying that we give people the power to destroy us and I will possibly wrap the final roses thorns around a pair of hands or something similar. I was also thinking that the thorns could be a reoccurring theme in the board or possibly the chains from the previous page of drawings.

Enhancing My Ideas

I chose to use the word betrayal as my main theme and starting sketching ideas around this. The first drawings is two people who were best friends and then one friend blamed the other in for something they didn't do the innocent friend get's thrown in jail left with a chain as a reminder of his friend's betrayal while the guilty one walks free and leaves his chain and the memory of his friend behind him. The second drawing is a chain and lock which represents trust, the lock is forcefully broken which means that there was an intent to break the trust and safety the lock and chain held. the third drawing is a burning bridge or monument in which a blinded man led his troops onto/into and then set it ablaze. The man will more than likely be a man or woman famous for betrayal.

Exploring Ideas

I started exploring ideas for my folio for the year. I brainstormed ideas about what I care about the most and then expanded on each of the words I wrote down. I then chose the three words of Justice, Betrayal and Passion for Music to develop further and translate into my planning.

Goals For English 2017

• Improve with each essay
• Merit or Excellence endorsed for NCEA
• Merit or Excellence on each of my essays
• Get higher grades then last year