IDEA TO TIE MY WORK WITH A METAPHOR OF DEVELOPING OLD FILM PHOTOGRAPHS
Need to do some in-depth research into this area. Need to look more into how the colouring of black and white film used to be done at the...
Dara Bolaji
Aug 5, 20201 min read
IMAGINING THE PERFECT MOMENTS THAT GOT AWAY
I have an idea that it might be interesting to paint this hypothetical picture which was missed with words instead of a camera. It would...
Dara Bolaji
Aug 5, 20201 min read
FINDING PERFECT MOMENTS IN THE PANDEMIC WITH FEWER FRIENDS AROUND
I thought a moment that could be a perfect moment, but at that moment I was within it, and thus not able to view it from the outside and...
Dara Bolaji
Aug 5, 20202 min read
VICKY IN THE WONDERFUL EVERYDAY
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Dara Bolaji
Aug 5, 20201 min read
ARTIST STATEMENT
My practice this year has taken the form of sketches made into paintings. Presently, it is a collection of brightly coloured A4 pieces,...
Dara Bolaji
Jan 24, 20203 min read
MY VIVA PRESENTATION // FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
During my Viva Presentation, I began by saying, "Hi I'm Dara. My work has previously been text-based...
Dara Bolaji
Jan 23, 20201 min read
COLIN CHILLAG - ARTIST RESEARCH
In my tutorial with Tina Jenkins we considered that, even though I had originally intended to paint all of my sketches, some of them have...
Dara Bolaji
Nov 13, 20192 min read
1-1 STUDIO TUTORIAL WITH TINA JENKINS
I had recorded this tutorial, but for some reason or other the audio is very unclear and I could not make out much of it when I listened...
Dara Bolaji
Nov 12, 20193 min read
VERTICAL CRIT WITH GALIA
During the midterm exhibition there was a vertical crit with one of the tutors and a selection of students from across the year groups....
Dara Bolaji
Oct 31, 20192 min read
A SKETCH AND PAINTING FROM A NEW PHOTO
In taking this photo I wanted to experiment with the human form when the face is not visible. And this moment with the subject stood in...
Dara Bolaji
Oct 23, 20192 min read
MIDTERM EXHIBITION
This is the work I have done so far (minus a couple of drawings I did not want to put up), displayed on the wall in the art department....
Dara Bolaji
Oct 23, 20191 min read
A SKETCH FROM A NEW PHOTO
Although I am taking deliberate photos with the intention of drawing and painting them, I am not doing this in an ideal studio setting...
Dara Bolaji
Oct 23, 20191 min read
A SKETCH FROM A NEW PHOTO
This is another sketch from a photo that I had purposely taken for this project of practicing portraits. Although I am deliberately...
Dara Bolaji
Oct 23, 20191 min read
Dara Bolaji
Oct 23, 20191 min read
A SKETCH FROM A NEW PHOTO
I took some new photos with the intention of drawing and eventually painting them: I think I have done a decent job with the likeness. It...
Dara Bolaji
Oct 23, 20191 min read
A SKETCH FROM A FOUND PHOTO
This is the second sketch I have made from a found photograph. I had taken this photo back in 2015 and found it on one of my memory...
Dara Bolaji
Oct 22, 20191 min read
CHANGE OF DRAWING STYLE
After not liking my first painting based on one of my poems I decided that I wanted to just practice drawing and painting again,...
Dara Bolaji
Oct 22, 20191 min read
PAINTING OF GIRL IN CLOCK
I made this painting based on my poem, When Tears Fall Flat - Forever Just Like That. It depicts a girl, not any particular girl, sitting...
Dara Bolaji
Oct 17, 20191 min read
'MAKE-BELIEVE' INSPIRED SKETCH
This is a quick sketch I have made to go alongside my poem Make-believe: If anyone is familiar with the film My Girl this is a drawing of...
Dara Bolaji
Oct 15, 20191 min read
A POEM I WROTE IN 2017 WHICH HAS ELEMENTS OF TIME
Marlboro Smoke Sit with me a while on this cold concrete floor Let me watch Marlboro smoke and curly hair stream across your moonlit face...
Dara Bolaji
Oct 1, 20191 min read