Gender Ideas

From looking at Butler's I've discovered her idea that gender is just a performance that it is built up by through the repetition of specific behaviours: like lipstick for women and suits for men. I was looking into those ideas for myself, like how dying my hair is seen as very feminine but going to the cadets/military involvement is seen as being masculine. So I looked at those aspects of myself and created a small series of paintings. Looking at the different 'versions' of myself. I used blue and pink for my colour scheme because they are the recognised colours for male and female.

Sketchbook Pages

Here are some of my sketchbook pages so far and some experiments that I've done over the past few weeks:

 I've mostly been creating portraits as I've been looking at the different ways that people present themselves.

Primary Research

Over the past few weeks, I've collected a lot of research from essays on gender roles, artists who look identity, creating a survey and asking people opinions, and creating some visual pieces. Now I'm working on getting a balance between primary and secondary research so that I can make sure that my concept is fully explored.

Presentation Time!

This week we had our first presentation for David's class, I feel like I've really improved with presentations over the past few years as I wasn't as nervous and only stuttered once. I like the presentation as it's a good way to help you edit your research information which then helps to form your paragraphs for your essay. The essay has been going really well as I've been managing my time better this time and have got a lot of research both primary and secondary.

Warhol-esc

I've been working on some Warhol inspired pieces, using bright block colours and simplified facial features. I like the way that the pieces look but I want them to have more depth, possible adding a meaning to the colours or have a better range of facial expressions/obvious moods.
Something I was thinking was dressing up as an over the top version of myself. So for the cadet part of my life have an ultra masculine looking portrait and have in neural tones, for my artist side have really colourful/possibly blue as I always seem to use blue in my work.

Initial Ideas!

From using a filter my phone I've created some different pop art like pieces that I think work quite well but I feel they could look better if they were printed, which is something I plan to investigate later.