Moving Image.

I went into uni today with all the appropriate drawing equipment and decided i still didn't have enough.. its funny how you always envy the person who thought to bring in that piece of wire wool to create texture and emotion isn't it. But overall i was content with what i had to hand.
We were asked to watch and draw the moving images that were shown on screen. I really really liked this idea, it allowed me to incorporate my growing passion for illustration seen as the drawings were to be done at a rather fast pace it didn't leave time to neaten or perfect what the drawing was.
To create movement in an image is never easy you have to have flow, consistency and the ability to stretch your imagination that little more than if the image is still. 
However what i liked the most about this is how i can apply the techniques that i have played with today to everyday life. I have now given myself the skill to sit and watch and recreate at speed. Because after all how boring would it be if everything stayed still.. 

13 final Sketches

Creating images with; Hair, hands and feet.

Ok so. How do u go about making a picture with hair? Do you sacrifice all those years of growing it to dip in acrylic paint in the name of art? Or do you plait pencils into it and try with difficulty to make a picture that can only be described as ''Abstract?''

Well all of these questions when through my head but non to which i could justify being worth working at..

So instead i would love to say i cut my own hair and used it to create a paint brush. But sadly not.

I did however insist that my brother needed his hair cutting and that i would gladly take him to the barbers. When he got there he wasn't to impressed that his older sister asked the barber if it would be possible to collect his hair and use it to make art. In fact i would much more say mortified was his reaction.

When i got his hair home, i tried to think of an apporiate way to use it as a tool, attempting to make it into a paint brush. but after much effort realised that this wasn't going to work seen as the hair just kept slipping out of the contraption and simply made a mess.

nicee

Atempt at paint brush



I then decided well why not make an image that can change, why not use the hair to make the image itself.. if its not hair on a real persons head or face.. lets make it hair for a drawing. Logical. After attempts to glue the hair down and failing i decided that hair is a free moving material, so it can be for the image itself. So here are my trials.. its not possible to bring this into uni so on here will have to do.








go 1





 

Getting there









=]



Alternative Image Making. Household object.

The Brief was to choose a household object and in my notebook to generate ideas for alternative ways of image making.

Without using traditional drawing materials create my alternative images. 

First of all asked myself the question .. what makes a house a home? What when i walk or think about my home is it that sparks recognition.. At first it would seem natural to think of the obvious; Kettle, toaster telly ect. However when i thought about it in more depth my thought process lead to the concept that when you step into your house, you step into a different environment. One which the roll plays of everyday life are exterminated and it is possible to be you self. This progressed on to the question, well what is  that people in general do as their first steps into becoming themselves and at ease. Following out primary research made me analyse the people closest to me and others not so close. i.e next door.  I'm really happy people were so honest with me, because when it is broken down it can become quite personal.

From this research i decided to base my project on the front door. And the statement that i would ask people to finish for my  research would be.. When you shut your front door....



john Bland



Tracey Johnson

Laura Oliver.

(Sandra Jones did not want to be photographed.)

These here are my subjects that i have decided to base my project around ( I don't like referring to them as subjects.) all photographed at their front doors.

What i then did was to take the information that they gave me which is stated in the final piece and played with the idea of the layout of a front door. In the end they all ended up with their own little canvas.. representing them as the individual and played with the concept of hand writing( due to it being the most person font) and incorporate with the idea of the front door. and what is is when other people do when they close their front door. . For the central piece of the project, i made a letter box out of news paper ( something that comes though the letter box an and brown  envelop paper) and attached parcel tags to the side for other people to write what it is they do when they walk through their front door. Interaction with the audience is a great thing to play with and something i want to experiment with further.

Laura.

Tracey

Sandra

John Bland





the letter box






final product



inspirational moment needed.

Threadbare

Drawing in thead by Debbie Smyth.
3rd July-30th October 2010.

Manchester Arts And Crafts Centre
These are my photos.

Playful yet sophisticated contemporary artworks created by a net work of threads stretched between plotted pins in a unique & illustrative style

wow

wow



wow



6th October. Pigment.

Ok. So if yesterday wasnt out there enough for me, we were told to bring in for today a range of items to make different pigment. .. Crazy. So when i went home yesterday and said 'Mum i need to use household things to make paints & pigments.' The response i got was.. 'Whats wrong with using bloody paint?' And to be honest i couldn't answer i simply shrugged.


Nether the less, I came to uni with an open mind and my bag of tools; Toothpaste, hair dye, brown sauce, teabags, coffee, lippy, foundation, toilet cleaner bubble bath, bath salts soil.. ect ect...

We were then asked to create a palette if you like of different tonal ranges, textures, colour... which I can tell you wasn't easy. But i got there in the end. 





palette

waste of lippy.



palette

 



We were then asked to use our colour creations to produce enlargements of our 'Homepage on location brief.' 



eye shadow, tea, coffee bleach  




Bleach, toothpaste, glitter, eyeshadow

I came home today with a smile on my face and simply said to my Mum. I'll tell you what wrong with just using paint. There is a box, if you stay inside of it you will aways be safe, but you will never do or experience anything different. To get out of the box is a hard thing to do. But once you do it, you will see things you never would have thought could even happen inside that little box of yours.. . .  

Needless to say. I didn't get any tea tonight.





 

5th October.

My own little Paint Brushes.

To I was using tools that I made to explore methods of drawing and discovering the extensive range of marks that are possible to make. We were first of all asked to experiment with lines and that marks that could be made with each tool. This created a palette for different potentials for each tool individually. At first i wasn't to taken by this idea but as i started to experiment with the tools i became intrigued as to make i could do with them thick, thin, strong and weak.. 

mark making

drawings created with different tools.

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large scale drawing of rubber glove
 tool drawn with wool and twig.



drawing of phone :\
large scale, wool and twig

From today i can honestly say, that I'm going to have to become alot more open minded,  I think this was a brilliant exercise that was given to us today.  Although its difficult to find the medium between seeing it as insanity or genius, this is the stuff that separates the boys from men.

Photo Map.

Ok. So here we go again. I was now in possession of 2 briefs at the same time that i found baffling.
But its ok, a little help from Mr Da Costa and Ms Vernon, we had it uncontrolled. (Even if Will was hungover.)

We scanned the campus for hours trying to find the listed designations, however in the end we got there, even if it meant dragging Will for coffee now and again. i decided to model the map from a Caterpillar. I cant say i really know where this idea came from. i think it was because of all the walking we did over those 2 days, it felt like we had 100 legs. All of this thought process is documented in my notebook. Here is the end result.

M for MMU.

 



The little butterfly at the
 end to  show what i want to be
 when i finish MMU.







4th October.

 I have written my days experience in my notebook. But here are a few pictures that i took to document the day.



shoe drawings



class giving it a go

 

signature drawings

Herc, awkward partner

Home Page On Location

Not going to lie to you, but this brief was not for me. I found it really hard to get my head around, a little too open ended and just .. ye hard.

but Ive given it ago, you wouldn't think so by the end results but its the best i could do with the time limit. =\

We were asked to choose 3 genre of film, my choice; Horror, musical and documentary. we were then asked to choose 1 film from each and decided upon 2 stills which we were then to draw and analyse, then recreate. However what baffled me was we had to include our altered computer in it....



camera shot



dreams



Dreams 2

i decided on 'Dreamgirls' as my musical. the reason for this decision was because of the glamour, high tech camera work and intensity of the film.  Because i used mirrors to make my altered computer, i thought that it kinda tied in with the whole idea of glamour. i then decided that reflection was going to be a high flyer in my composition for all 3 of my chosen genre.

please bare with these pictures.. I'm not god with a camera, i would rather just draw. or cut and stick. me and technology are not meant to be.

By the way.  i don't have photo shop so these pictures are as they come.



What i have done to create the top image is simply take a picture of the reflection of the lens in of the camera in the top part of the computer using flash. Using macro and the starring tool on the camera it allowed me to to capture the high of glamour and intensity that the film consists of and then by changing it to black and white determined the time setting to which the film is set. 
For the bottom image I  used google to get a  scene from 'Deamgirls' and created a silotte from this which i then attached to the bottom screen of my computer. Turning off all the lights in the room the image was taken in and making sure the only setting was black I took the picture with a high flash intensity and hoped for the best.



macs 1



macs 2



The next film  i chose to analyse and recreate was 'Supersize me.' An American 2006 documentary  about how obesity is taking over in America. The reason for this choice is because i have have seen it before and am aware that the film was directed with low budget. This meant that aspects such as light, angle and composition were not as apparently directed, in comparsion to films such as 'Dreamgirls.' To make these pictures seem to have some relevance to the subject in hand, I went to McDonald's in Whythenshawe and asked for boxes and any packaging that it would be possible to take. Seen as the eating area was full and it was really busy i felt like a bit of an idiot asking for these things, but i covered it up saying i was looking for the nutritional values of the food. ( This made me laugh)

I tried to take the pictures in all different locations to sort of replicate the scene that i captured from the documentary. I'm aware there not, but the lack of lighting and and effects used when taking the picture kinda created the low budget look i was going for.

umm Laura

nice.

FINALLY. I decided to analyse the film mirrors. This was the first film i choose to recreate, and the last i decided to make thinking it would be the simplest. NO. that was not the case. Finding a model, was hard, getting my computer to stick on the wall was hard and getting to make my camera take negative pictures. HARD. But Ive done it. Horror. Poor Laura, she thought she was going to be modelling something slightly more glamorous.  

my personal altered computer

poser.

We were asked to create a personal altered computer. I went about this at first with difficulty thinking about different fabrics i could use. It wasn't until i sat back and thought about what is around me that i realised there is alot more materials to use than just the obvious fabric. I  started looking at the concept of animal, vegetable, mineral. this thought process lead to water, then on to glass and the two combined to become mirror.

In my work simplicity is key. Instead of trying to build a physical computer i played with the idea of it being compact like the recent apple products. 

I knew that for uni i would be carrying alot of books, so what better way to transport my computer than in the book that i designed it in. 
By simply cutting mirror in to two rectangle shapes  i stuck them into my book forming a laptop format. Brilliant!

 So when you look into the bottom mirror, you see your forehead, or in this case your thoughts hitting the key board, and instead of having to type them, your brain enters them automatically.

(In this case something personal.)

 The reason i didn't apply keys to the bottom mirror is because i wanted the mirror to act infinity invariable, just like your thought process.

When you look in the the top mirror, you see your reflection, this is the output of your input, if this makes sense.
Basically what you have inputted into the keyboard, is processed and then leads to the output. This being your own reflection. You cant really get more personal than that. =]
By the way, the picture doesn't really do it just.