UCASSsss..

I spent today trying to write my personal statement for ucas but gave up and decided to paint some Halloween bats and pumpkins instead haha
Our next project is called 'Their theory your practise' so i also tried to make a start by researching some artists that have really influenced my work, or just inspire me to start creating work in a similar style... the artists I've found so far that i really love are Stina Persson and Cecilia Carlstedt. They work very much with fashion illustration and this is the type of work i definitely want to look at for the next project.

Final Pieces... First off i wanted to experiment with colour so i practised mixing by using a colour wheel

I decided i wanted to create a few paintings just on an A3 scale of me and family members as a final piece to the projects 'Me and my surrounding'. So here is what i have done so far, a portrait of my brother, myself and my nephew, i have used collage including road maps of places that I have been or that are important in my life, bus/train tickets and my nephews drawings because i love working with texture, I have then used water-colour paints to create the actual portrait, I am pleased with them so far :)

 

 

 

 

 

Liverpool Biennial! so we went on a trip to see the contempory art at the liverpool biennial..i've just included some of my favourite peices or the ones that i found most interesting..

squirrle- by Jennifer Phelan



Hand casting using mod rock and plaster... this was my first time producing any form of cast and plaster sculpture
Method:
first I cut the strips of mod rock to size, then layered them on the hand one at a time to pick up as much detail as i could, using warm water to activate it, alternating between the strips going over the hand horizontally and vertically so the cast is strong. I did this to the top half of the hand and then the same technique over the bottom side, leaving a gap in between to ensure the hand inside isn't trapped. then when the casts were hard enough i removed them from the hand and secured the two half's together with more strips of mod rock (this is where i went wrong as i didn't match up the two half's correctly, so this is something i need to keep in mind if i want to produce more casts.)
          Next we mixed the plaster up, one cup of plaster to one cup of cold water was just enough to fill my cast and after the plaster set i took off the mod rock and used sand paper to get a smoother finish, i just left my plaster white but i could experiment using colour in the future.

Large Scale A2 self portrait, I have tried working with different scales, textures and media..here i have produced a large scale self portrait using stick and ink, this is a media i love to work with because i like things to be big and messy. I have drawn from a photograph as i find it much easier to work from a photograph then from life, this is something i hopefully can improve on over the course

Wire Work

 creating a self portrait out of wire, harder then it looks!! definitely not a very realistic self potrait but i still really like it, to improve on this i could work on a larger scale with differnt colours/types of wire.

Another Black and white experiment... still focusing on my surroundings and objects that describe me. I created this using chalk and black paper. working on black paper meant i had to draw in the lighter tones and highlights rather then shadows and shading on white paper ( what i'm used to!). I like this as an experiment but probably won't take it any further.

Finally set up my blog :)!....so this was one of my fist pieces of work starting Art foundation- Me and my surroundings project, i liked working on this because i experamented with textures and different media. I used a fine liner pen to draw a close section of a piece of jewelry and by having newspaper and paint layered as a background, it helps to lift the over-all image.