Dara Bolaji
Aug 5, 20201 min read
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...
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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...
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Dara Bolaji
Aug 5, 20202 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...
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Dara Bolaji
Jan 24, 20203 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,...
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Dara Bolaji
Jan 23, 20201 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...
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Dara Bolaji
Nov 13, 20192 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...
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Dara Bolaji
Nov 12, 20193 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...
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Dara Bolaji
Oct 31, 20192 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....
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Dara Bolaji
Oct 23, 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...
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Dara Bolaji
Oct 23, 20191 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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Dara Bolaji
Oct 22, 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...
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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,...
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Dara Bolaji
Oct 17, 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...
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Dara Bolaji
Oct 15, 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...
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Dara Bolaji
Oct 1, 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...
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