My 1st Solo Performance

 Joshua's Solo Performance

Why did you choose this song?

I chose this song, because this song really suits my voice and it wasn't too low and too high.

Are you happy with your final performance of it?

Yes, I am really happy with my final performance, everything turned out the way I loved it to when I began to watch the video of my piece. I am really proud of myself and my singing teacher for helping me throughout finding this song and practising it.

What did you find challenging about this piece?

What I found challenging was working out my stage presence for this song, because it is a depressing song and it needs a bit of emotional movements. 

Performance goal for Solo 2 (What are you going to work at improving?)

Try and look up at the audience because I would always be looking down whilst singing. I also need to work on stage presence and being brave for my next performance.

"Disease" Acrylic paint - Upper body structure

12/08/20

For my artwork piece, I am working on my chosen kaupapa, Humans and the Environment.

In this image shown above, we seeing the upper body of the structure I am building, leading onto a 3D cardboard structure. I am starting off by working on paper to figure out the look I want and the colour I may apply on it. 

I love how this is turning out, the colours bring together a lovely piece of artwork to me, it is filled with so much colour and it work altogether to bring attention to if possibly seen on the streets or so. 

What is working:

What is working is that the mixture of colour for this specific type of artwork is coming together and bonding well, making an old fashioned type artwork and blending together with some future bright colour.

What is not working:

What isn't working, is that some other part of this structure's painting isn't very smoothly painted and was not accurate.

What is your next step:

My next step is what this could look like in 3D, I just wanted to paint this to practise and to possibly use this look on the 3D structured piece on cardboard. My next step is painting the entire body and bring to together colour and creation on to what suits the upper body structure.

 

Negative Space "Disease" Artwork

For this method of art I created, I wanted to use my imagination and create a very advanced art piece. 

What is going on in this practise piece is that I am creating steps of a human body with a missing piece in the middle (The stomach). This just shows the technique of negative space, for me I wanted to create something like this because it relates to people with stomach cancer e.g Stan Walker he had stomach cancer and had to go through scary surgeries, I wanted to show art from this disease, not that I'm judging it but because its something to care for and for it being scary, I wanted to create art from it making it beautiful.

What is working?

What is working in this artwork here is that it is coming together the way I want it to look like and it shows a beautiful look with negative space creating something I didn't expect to design.

What is not working?

What isn't working for me is that it is easier drawing it small on a small piece of paper, whereas it could ruin the effect for me applying it on a large piece of design. 

What is my next step?

Practise more of these to get the hang of it so it can be easier to make the real version of this on a bigger design for the finish product.