Week Project: More Flesh Research

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Week Project: Flesh- Research

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Flesh Research

The Night Project- Evaluation

I am happy that I chose "The Circus" as my theme. I really enjoyed researching it and coming up with design ideas.

Cushions:
I think that my cushions came out really well and I really enjoyed making them. I think that the designs were good because I had two different designs and then two versions of the designs. I also decided to experiment with masking tape to create stripes on the cushions so that they would relate more to my research. I think that the wadding was the best material to use to stuff the cushions with. I also liked how some of the cushions were landscape and some of them were portrait. If I made the cushions again I would make bigger sizes so they are more like sofa cushions.

T-shirt:
I think my t-shirt turned out really well because I tried out the design on paper first to make sure I was happy with it. After I washed it there was still some blue showing around the design which I didn't like. Luckily I decided to hand wash it and it came out but it made part of the design at the bottom fade. Even though this happened I think that it fits in more with my circus ( The Circus of Nightmares) because it makes the design look more dream like.

Mugs:
I really liked how the mugs came out. I tried to do the exactly the same design on the mugs as the cushions and t-shirt but I found it quite difficult to get the contortionist drawing right. So instead I decided to draw some black and white circus tents on one mug. And I sketched out the letter "M" for the other mug in the same font that I would have used for the circus posters so that it would all tie in.

The Night Project- Finished Products

The Night Project- Designs

 

I designed some products based off my research of the circus.  I decided that I wanted the same or a similar design for each product. I found a drawing of a contortionist and another photo of black and white stripe circus tents. I liked these designs for my products because I think they fit really well with the circus theme.

 

Design for my products

 

 

The Night Project- Circus

In my group critique most people said that they really liked my circus research so I have chosen to do that for my theme. I have done some more research in my sketchbook for American Horror Story Season 4 Freak show. I have also done a bit more research on The Night Circus.

 

 

American Horror Story Research

 

 Using my research I created my on mind map for my own circus ideas.

Two Week Project- The Night: Day 1 - Day 4

The Night Research

Pages From My Sketchbook

We also tried screen printing. I used black and dark green to try and resemble a night vision camera. I also tried to draw lions with the paint but it didn't work because when I spread the paint all the colours got mixed in.

Rotation Week- Photography: Ephemeral- Evaluation

I really enjoyed the photography rotation week because I think that Photography is one of my biggest interests. I especially liked being able to do the cyanotypes and I like how they turned out. I found the topic "ephemeral" a bit difficult to research because I felt like it was very vague.

Rotation Week- Photography: Ephemeral- Day 3 & Day 4

On day three we did cyanotypes. We had to bring in an object that fitted the theme ephemeral. I decided to bring in a bracelet. I think that a bracelet is ephemeral because I don't always wear it and when I do it's for a short period of time.

On acetate

Cyanotype

 I also decided to find an image of ocean waves. I'm really happy with ow both of the cyanotypes worked out

On acetate

Cyanotype

Day 4:

More Photography Research

I love Jake Saxman's phtographs because they are really interesting and beautiful to look at. He has a blog where he posts all of his photographs.

Nick Night also has a website where yoy can find his work. 

Rotation Week- Photography: Ephemeral- Day 1 & Day 2

Day 1:

Andy Goldsworthy and Cartier-Bresson

Day 2:

We had to find a picture of something that was ephemeral. I chose to do bubbles because I think they are a prime example of something that is ephemeral. I printed the picture on acetate and scratched into it using a pin. I wanted to go around the bubbles so that they were outlined white but it was quite hard to scratch the ink off because the picture was really light. So instead i found that if I pressed down really hard with the pin and drew around the bubbles, it would raise them from the other side. I also traced over the bubbles with different colour permanent markers.

Raised bubbles

Raised bubbles

Sketchbook page

Sketchbook page

Rotation Week- 3D: The City- Evaluation

I liked this week because we got to try sculpting and that was one of the main things that I wanted to try. I really liked designing and developing my ideas for my sculptures and taking inspiration from my research. I preferred working with crank because I found it was a lot easier to sculpt. I would really like to make sculptures for future projects.

Rotation Week- 3D: The City- Day 3 & Day 4

On day 3 we experimented with drawing with wax and then going over it with ink. I tried using Batik and balls of wax.

Batik

Batik

Balls of wax

We then had to draw our sculptures with wax. I decided to use the Batik method because it showed up a lot more. I then went over the wax with watered down ink so it came out grey. Then I shaded the drawings with normal ink.

On day four we had to recreate our sculptures out of paper/card. I designed them both in my sketchbook and then made them out of card.

The vase

The Vase and the bottom

The Lantern

the holes where the light would come through

Rotation Week- 3D: The City- Day 1 & Day 2

The City Research

From our research of the city we had to create clay sculptures. I designed a vase that was inspired by the buildings in Paris.

I added flower pots on the outside of the windows

Inside the vase

I also designed a lantern that was inspired by the Greek island Santorini at night.

Rotation Week- Illistration and Graphic Design: Journey- Evaluation

I enjoyed going to the Bristol Museum and drawing in my concertina book. I would definitely use the concertina books again because I think it is a really nice way of presenting your work afterwords. I also would like to try using the continuous line drawing with the concertina books because I think it would look really interesting when it is all filled out. I didn't really like the graphic design part of the week because I found it hard to keep in the theme of Journey.

Rotation Week- Illistration and Graphic Design: Journey- Day 3 & Day 4

This is my groups exhibition of our concertina books.

Rotation Week- Illistration and Graphic Design: Journey- Day 1 & Day 2

Today we went to the Bristol museum. I also drew things around the museum in my concertina book.

Rotation Week- Fine Art: The Body- Evaluation

I enjoyed doing the life drawing because I had never had the opportunity to do it before. I also really liked researching about different artists and being inspired by their work to create something of my own. I especially liked making the lungs because I never worked with wire before and I would really like to do in the future.

Rotation Week- Fine Art: The Body- Day 4

I created another sculpture today. I was inspired by Valeria Dalmon's sculptures of human bodies with animal heads. I like he sculptures because they are really detailed and unique which is quite eye catching.

For my sculpture I cut out two panels and then sewed buttons for eyes, a button for the nose and whiskers on to the front of one panel. I then hand stitched them together and left the stitches showing because I like the way it looks. If I had more time I would of added more detail so that it looks more like on of Valeria Damon's sculptures.

We also made concertina books for our trip on Monday to go to a museum in Bristol.