Jo Al Kash Yr12

Trip to Emirates Palace Art Exhibition

Visiting The Emirates Palace and going to meet with the artist was an interesting and exciting experience. It helped inspire my work and to think about the important strategies we were shown by him such as working fast and really loose.

It made me notice things which I had never paid attention to such as the fact that I find it almost impossible to start a painting if I have not drawn out all the outlines neatly and clearly. There is a much more simple way of doing your work and using improvisation and not being scared to try new things and using different surfaces which you would not normally use to paint on.

I really enjoyed the trip because the atmosphere was inspiring and thoughtful. When we went down to paint on the beach, it was not what I expected because I found that I actually really enjoyed this. In the beginning it sounded a bit childish when I heard that we were going to be doing finger-painting on pieces of cardboard. It was actually a lot easier to mix the colours and spread them out all over the page to create a pattern or mixture of some kind.

I would like to keep this in mind next time I draw out my outlines for a painting.