Homes without people, people without homes.

Whilst looking for inspiration on this project i came across an Artist names Ofra Lapid, this is their website http://ofralapid.com/category/broken-houses/ My first photographs and sketches of homeless people has led me on to more ideas of how this project could develop, looking at homes that have been abandoned. I thought these two ideas would link well together because it's a fact, there are houses missing people and people who are missing homes. I think Ofra Lapid's work is a great example of how this theme can be looked at.

Initial Ideas

I went to Southport over the weekend and whilst I was there I noticed a lot of homeless people and buskers on the street, I took some photographs so I that I had a starting point to work from, i will draw from these using different media, pen, ink etc. However my photographs are no way near as good as the photographers I have been looking at, mine are cropped from large shots and far from detailed as I wasn't confident enough to ask people for their picture.

house and home

Homeless- by Lee Jeffries

So for the next project I decided to look at house and home, at first I was attracted to the fabrics and textures from around the home which has given me my initial ideas to draw and paint on textured surfaces. Also I tried looking at house and home from a different angle, I think it would be very interesting to look at the 'homeless' so I plan on taking some pictures over the weekend as my primary source to work and draw from. Taking inspiration from artists who have focused on similar subjects like the photographer Lee Jeffries. These portraits and the faces he has captured above are so detailed and striking, I love how dramatic they are.

Set one

First experiments with my miniature figures, I decided to play around with different foods and scenes, i used macro and depth of field on my camera get a detailed shot and allowed the characters to be the main focus. I really like these initial experiments and so i am going to continue down this root and hopefully produce a final set of photographs that look a bit more professional.

experimenting with filters and edits

Here I have just taken some basic photographs to experiment with colour shadows highlights and focus, I like the warm yellow tones and I like the idea of using more then one figure within a scene.

New Project, Choosing a Theme

I have been trying to gather inpiration for my first Theme, out of the list of words i was given the ones that stand out are, colour, scale and time, i really like the idea of colour photography but it's not a very good time of year to focus on this..I have so many ideas it's hard to choose and i want to explore techniques i haven't used yet.. these are just some images i have found that are helping me think!

Keira Rathbone inspired piece

I really enjoyed creating this piece, i used a date stamper and ink pad, this was so i could control the pressure, tone and marks made, i repeated areas to build up tone. I decided to use the same initial photograph for all of my artist influence experiments to see how it would be manipulated using different styles. I really love some of the portraits Keira Rathbone created using a type writer so this is where this idea stemmed from.