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.