today we had a lecture about making things which i thought maybe needed a 20minute talk instead of a hour and a half.. found it very pointless and didnt help me with my understading of making things at all. everything i was told i knew.
So today we talked about 4 main topics theses were furnicture, fashion, arcutecture and printing textiles.
furnicture in my eyes was a very bad place to start.. she showed us quite dull peices and nothing inspirering at all. but she talked about bauhous and art moro. which are very sucessful disgners but i still dont find there work very intiresting i find simplism quite intresting but the rest for me is just over worked and unpractical.
Then she talked about fashion, which i find very intresting but she was so breif on the subject and just talked about elsa shaperni with the lobster look... which was just boring. then talked about veonet and how she started cross grain.
Arcutecqure was very intriesting but she only talked about one person, Frankk Right who i agree is a fantastic Arcutec but i wanted to see some more diversity and some really abstract building something i think i will look at in my own time.
Then printing textiles which is just about carpets.. and that was basicly it. didnt really look at the beautiful anceint carpits just skimmed the subject.
At the end of the day i was feeling very uninspired and went to the harbour to find some differant insperation.
Thursday, 21 October 2010
Wednesday, 20 October 2010
Painting Workshop 12th Oct
Painting is my passion so this day i had been antisapating for a long time! i think of my self as a abstract passionate painter who can sometimes make abstractness into my own type of work by using abstract paiting and using landscapes together to really get a intresting image.
As we walked into the room and we instantly started looking at differant artists tecneques and styles to really see who influences us and who is just a miss the artist i thought influenced me the most was jackson pollick becuase i love how he can find such an intresting way to move the paint around the page and i always try and find new ways to use my brush and usally end up chucking paint onto the canvus like the punk style of art.
- harward hodgekin
- paul klee
- wassily kandirisky
- yosho kaiho
- xie zieng
- David hockney
- patrick caulfield
- lisa milroy
- fiona fore
- michael porter
what we are looking were, layers, loosely, long/ sweaping of the brush , blending, expressive, liniar, dabs, colours mixed on canvus, scraped, solid flowing, fluid, dry brush, bleeding, merging, farding, essence, minialis, simplistiy, weight/pressure of the brush, smooth, absence of the brush marks (very dry so gets vivid) masking taped edges, blot tonking.
After looking at all these methods we had use to are bread and butter paper and split it into to pages. firstly we had to get a peice of bad paper and try all the differant types of brush strocks we did, then we examined everyones to see if there are any we could use!
Then we had to use 5 objects from the table and only use 10 brush strokes to make a basic image with the chosen colour, mine was purple, then we swoped colours and were aloud to do another 10 strokes.
then we had to chose a complementing colour and just fill in the background only on both images, then we we had another quick look at more artists. After that we were told we could do what we want to finish these images.
Monday, 18 October 2010
Book Making 11th Oct
Today we MADE A BOOK! which was not as boring as i thought it would be!
The book was done very easily, firstly we needed a cover which we were given then we needed 10 peices of A1 cartligue paper which we bought for £2 so the book cost me £2 to make when i could buy it for around £20 in a shop. dammn.
Firstly we needed to cut all the paper into A3 peices, then we had to start sowing them all together... which was quite long and tiering but so worth it for the final peice. Then we had to make a binding which was just layers of glue and faberic, then we could cut down the book if we wanted i didnt do this because i liked the raged edges.
Then we had to make a carboard back for it which was just methering the trick with making a book was just patiences.. time... and boredom! then we stuck the fabric to the cardbored used special glue to the book and had to press it for 2mins then when we got home had to leave it to dry and press for another 6 hours. then poofff its finished :)
Lecture Perspective and illusions. 6th Oct
When we scan an image we all try to read and decode an image to try and understnad the artist and see the reaction that he is trying to make us feel. there are 5 main areas they try to get this through to us, these are;
- Colour
- Light
- Focus
- Scale
- Overlap
- figuration
Matisse was a French painter who was fasinated by colour, this image is one of his most famous images and i thought it just sumed up colour. and how even a little bit of flat colour can make movement.
(obtained in; http://www.artnet.com/artwork/426061483/423903488/martin-lewis-spring-night-greenwich-village.html)
Martin Lewis was an Australian artist who was obsested by light and in nearly all his images light is the main factor in this image light shows all the detail and with out it would just be a black image.
Focus is the clarity nd sharpness of an image. We have much sharper eye when it is nearer to use a intresting artist to look at is, Mark Francis.
Figuration, comes with space and comes with the own spatial cue, artists can create a sence of depth by just placing objects around a room. like a wide angle lens when you use a camera. Eg Martin Parr.
Scale. If objects vary in size in an image it can make the viewer very confused and feel quite out of place and makes the view really look differantly than just a stright forward image.
Overlap when comporents of an image over it has a sematery effect. Patrick Cauifeild is a great beliver of this and over laps most of his images. Its intresting becuase he knows that hes breaking the artistic rules. when we can see therory overlaping objects a sence of confusion happens.
History.
Egyptions have just got the own language of art which are usally Fiezes and wall decoration this could be because all there other medias have just disintigrated. Everything else has just gone. strong sence of over laping hapens like a cartoon there wall decoration is two harizontal and there giving us infomation rather than just art. its not a photographic drawing its just data to them. In Egyption drawings the larger the person in the image the more important he is shows aurthority and importance.
Classical greece replaced egyption drawing with a naturalistic type of drawing more for beatey and enjoyment rather than data.
With roman and Greek we get the incolment to look of it compareing it to egyption where it is as it is. Romans enjoyed painting and decoration for there own entertainment. Art was once again repersented as power and relign.
Perspective 1 point, (Drawing in my sketch book Obtained from; http://www.ider.herts.ac.uk/school/courseware/graphics/one_point_perspective.html
Perspective 2 Point (obtained from; http://kingfishers.ednet.ns.ca/art/grade10/drawing/perspective3.html)
Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Trial Day Induction to most! 5th Oct.
Print making
Firstly we went down to the Print making room to be inducted to use all the equiptment down there. the first part of the day was talking about Health and Safty. These were pretty basic health and saft eg, always were shoes and the aprons, no music and no eating etc.
after this we were shown how to do a stencil.. which i thought was rather obvious but still was nice to see another artists approach to making a stencil. For when we have the full day down in the printing room we need to do 5 stencils (1 cut only to make it easy) should be simple, a serious of images compined and layered up to get a good compostion, maybe a sequence of your object like Andy Warhol's Canned soup.Then we were told for are day with the print making that we needed 5 stencils. I've done print making before and didnt really enjoy it i'll have to judge after i've done it again.
Book making;
Then we had a very quick look on book making, which ment we needed 10 A1 peices of paper for the next day. we were given quick instructions on how to make the book which sounded very long.. and boreing.. and something i instantly thought would be crap. book making really dosent sound like my specialism! The instructions were A1 paper cut into A3 peices of paper. then fold the pages, then make start soeing them together.. then make a binding and cover and walha! your done.
Photography
Photography was my favourate of the day, i think this is becuase its a media which i know and very fond of, the teacher we had was called dave and instatly was my hero just really really knows his area of expertes, extremely intresting and smart. we were told about the aperture and shutter stuff i had known before but its always right to be rememinded. A really intresting fact i was told was that camera phones show us more colours than we realy see, if you shine a tv remote at a camera and take the photo you see infered. in photography we were told the 3 main objects for this year in photography are;
colour (GET NEW NOTES)
Firstly we went down to the Print making room to be inducted to use all the equiptment down there. the first part of the day was talking about Health and Safty. These were pretty basic health and saft eg, always were shoes and the aprons, no music and no eating etc.
after this we were shown how to do a stencil.. which i thought was rather obvious but still was nice to see another artists approach to making a stencil. For when we have the full day down in the printing room we need to do 5 stencils (1 cut only to make it easy) should be simple, a serious of images compined and layered up to get a good compostion, maybe a sequence of your object like Andy Warhol's Canned soup.Then we were told for are day with the print making that we needed 5 stencils. I've done print making before and didnt really enjoy it i'll have to judge after i've done it again.
Book making;
Then we had a very quick look on book making, which ment we needed 10 A1 peices of paper for the next day. we were given quick instructions on how to make the book which sounded very long.. and boreing.. and something i instantly thought would be crap. book making really dosent sound like my specialism! The instructions were A1 paper cut into A3 peices of paper. then fold the pages, then make start soeing them together.. then make a binding and cover and walha! your done.
Photography
Photography was my favourate of the day, i think this is becuase its a media which i know and very fond of, the teacher we had was called dave and instatly was my hero just really really knows his area of expertes, extremely intresting and smart. we were told about the aperture and shutter stuff i had known before but its always right to be rememinded. A really intresting fact i was told was that camera phones show us more colours than we realy see, if you shine a tv remote at a camera and take the photo you see infered. in photography we were told the 3 main objects for this year in photography are;
- explore
- recording of are work
- learn new methods
colour (GET NEW NOTES)
Objects Colour and drawing. Oct 4th
On friday we were told that we needed to bring 12 objects, 1 black, 1 white, 9 man made and 3 nateral the items these needed to be a solid colour as well so i brought were;
After this we had a quick lunch then came back to continue are sorting out. This time we had to do alphabetically so this took a long time because everyone had differant words for some objects. this ment it was very random for some of the objects. After this we all had to select around 7 objects take them to a quite place and draw them from birds eye view, side veiw, angled view and then we had to do a view where all the objects were the same size to do this we had to place the small objects really close and the large objects very far away this was by far the hardest drawing.
today i have really enjoyed cataloging all the infomation and the drawing in the afternoon was quite peaceful becuase we could instead of looking at hundreds of objects just focus on a few which really makes you appreciate the lines and infomation given to us.
(ADD PHOTOS WHEN AT HOME*)
- black tea cup
- white rock
- peice of wood
- rock
- leaf
- canaster
- button
- old keys
- pink flower
- balloon
- small yellow pot
- plastic pig
After this we had a quick lunch then came back to continue are sorting out. This time we had to do alphabetically so this took a long time because everyone had differant words for some objects. this ment it was very random for some of the objects. After this we all had to select around 7 objects take them to a quite place and draw them from birds eye view, side veiw, angled view and then we had to do a view where all the objects were the same size to do this we had to place the small objects really close and the large objects very far away this was by far the hardest drawing.
today i have really enjoyed cataloging all the infomation and the drawing in the afternoon was quite peaceful becuase we could instead of looking at hundreds of objects just focus on a few which really makes you appreciate the lines and infomation given to us.
(ADD PHOTOS WHEN AT HOME*)
Saturday, 9 October 2010
Friday lecture + Week Evaluation 1st Oct
Next year courses lecture.
(orginal ideas; slade, st martins, gap year, work experiance)
we where told when thinking about next year we need to think about;
(ucas buzzword = foundationfalmouth)
Location? do i want to be in a city or in a village? i think i want to be in a city for the main reason that i can work at the same time as do my course and i'll create so many more mainstreem conections there instead of somewhere more local.
Then after we had the talk about Next year ideas and what i need to be thinking about we had quite a quick talk from Andy the Animation guy and he showed us a few videos of his ideas and his creations.
Week evaluation
This week has been a very intresting week just on the tip of really starting the course. Which is very exciting becuase i can't wait to really get stuck into it! On monday we did animation and this was the first time i have ever done it, so i was really eger to go try it out thinking we would have a lot of time and i'd be able to create a really intresting image. My image was my face with my hand slowly slide down my face then my tung sticks out and my face is screded and fades into a blank page, then i used my real hand to click, then slowly a cigerette packet starts to come up from the bottom of the page and my sliced face fills the gaps in the packet were the cigerettes would go. then that fades into the next persons face but i havnt decided how to do that. i found animation quite fun but very tedious maybe a hobby but nothing more becuase the idea of months just drawing.. i think i'd go insane! Then tusday i wasnt feel very well.. felt ill and all day so i wasnt as productive as i should have been but i still tried my best on something i found completly boreing.. paper modle making.. where we had to bring an image we had done before and brake it down and make a 3d model from it. i found this extremly boring... i ended up making a rose becuase its an object i've always loved and an object i always paint. On Wednesday we had a lection on about lines which was very intresting to see how lines effect everything we do and you cant do art with out any lines what so ever be it little or big. We also talked about the histery of drawing how pencils were only created 500 years ago so before that it was much harder but there was still amazing drawing produced pre-1500ac. On Thursday we did a layering excersise which i really enjoyed because we were doing quite a free drawing so i could be more expressive than i have be able to be in the last few weeks which was really fun and hard to get back into being expressive after being doing alot of very tight and percided drawings. then that brings us today and i was quite intrested into the next year ideas but its still very eairly days.. but in the after noon i went to the harbour and took a large amount of photos becuase the sky was fantastic and then did a few drawings which i didnt really like.. but this week has been very intresting and i've started to draw slower and really look harder than i have ever looked before!
(orginal ideas; slade, st martins, gap year, work experiance)
we where told when thinking about next year we need to think about;
- what do i want in the future?
- what type of art does this invole?
- what are courese generlly looking for?
(ucas buzzword = foundationfalmouth)
Location? do i want to be in a city or in a village? i think i want to be in a city for the main reason that i can work at the same time as do my course and i'll create so many more mainstreem conections there instead of somewhere more local.
Then after we had the talk about Next year ideas and what i need to be thinking about we had quite a quick talk from Andy the Animation guy and he showed us a few videos of his ideas and his creations.
Week evaluation
This week has been a very intresting week just on the tip of really starting the course. Which is very exciting becuase i can't wait to really get stuck into it! On monday we did animation and this was the first time i have ever done it, so i was really eger to go try it out thinking we would have a lot of time and i'd be able to create a really intresting image. My image was my face with my hand slowly slide down my face then my tung sticks out and my face is screded and fades into a blank page, then i used my real hand to click, then slowly a cigerette packet starts to come up from the bottom of the page and my sliced face fills the gaps in the packet were the cigerettes would go. then that fades into the next persons face but i havnt decided how to do that. i found animation quite fun but very tedious maybe a hobby but nothing more becuase the idea of months just drawing.. i think i'd go insane! Then tusday i wasnt feel very well.. felt ill and all day so i wasnt as productive as i should have been but i still tried my best on something i found completly boreing.. paper modle making.. where we had to bring an image we had done before and brake it down and make a 3d model from it. i found this extremly boring... i ended up making a rose becuase its an object i've always loved and an object i always paint. On Wednesday we had a lection on about lines which was very intresting to see how lines effect everything we do and you cant do art with out any lines what so ever be it little or big. We also talked about the histery of drawing how pencils were only created 500 years ago so before that it was much harder but there was still amazing drawing produced pre-1500ac. On Thursday we did a layering excersise which i really enjoyed because we were doing quite a free drawing so i could be more expressive than i have be able to be in the last few weeks which was really fun and hard to get back into being expressive after being doing alot of very tight and percided drawings. then that brings us today and i was quite intrested into the next year ideas but its still very eairly days.. but in the after noon i went to the harbour and took a large amount of photos becuase the sky was fantastic and then did a few drawings which i didnt really like.. but this week has been very intresting and i've started to draw slower and really look harder than i have ever looked before!
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