Plans for final piece

I bought a 41 by 63 inch roller blind, it a cotton like polyester material which is perfect for drawing and adding colour, so far I have drawn large circles to fit me or my drawings in.
I started off obsessing about using fabric dye as it is easier to bleach and make some strange effects with, but I started using a turps and water mixture which has been working very well even with gouache and acrylic paints.

I am very excited to see what the outcome is going to be  i hope to fill all the circles with drawings and add other colours. I am also featuring some drawings from my sketchbook.

Painting with bleach

I developed this idea after staring at an old sketchbook cover, it was very bright and the colour annoyed me so  much I had to rip it apart (not the sketchbook) but the  cover.

I am very proud of this although the drawing itself is not particularly amazing, the fabric cover was easy to bleach and colour again that is why this works very well. 

One drawing 3 ways

This is the original drawing, I am going to use this in my final piece it is drawn on this white card.
For my final piece I am adding different elements of myself and my drawings to make almost a big puzzle of drawings featuring me.So I have been summing up ways in which I can use one drawing to make several other drawings, my Photoshop skills are not the best but I am pleased with how this turned out

Today

I feel like I am finally making a breakthrough with my drawings, I am considering putting these on show at my exhibition.

30 by 30 scanned

I do casually do some 30 by 30 cm drawings, I enjoy them I never know what the outcome is going to be. For these drawings I used oil paint one of my favourite mediums, this project so far has been this most liberating of all the project I have done since starting university.

I feel like myself again or a bit of my self coming back again. I am referring to the more experimenting multi tasking old me.

I used oil paint for these, I finally bought turps so it is morepliable now and a tad easier to spread the paint.

 

For my final piece I intend to to make college of my drawings from my sketchbook, and introduce some new ones. I am going to make this collage on a roller blind.

30 by 30 (in the series of)

This is the first original cleaned slightly on Photoshop. The one below is a photoshop negative.

The one above I though I ‘d colour it in using Photoshop paint brushes, I thought it was relevant to mix up my illustrations instead of keeping the same old repetitive (well i feel like I am being repetitive)

Narcissi

I never thought it until today that Cindy Sherman and Frida Kahlo have narcissistic tendencies, in Cindy’s case I do not know whether she is very narcissistic or she enjoys being different people in her ‘pictures’. I found this on tumblr I have these  images already in my sketchbook but did not know how to show them without copying and pasting a hoard of them on my blog. I want to try this  STOP MOTION OR GIF for my project.

Image transfer (failed)

For this illustration i tried an old method i used to use in the past, it did not work so I had draw some of the outlines with a fine liner. I drew on calico and water down some of the lines. I think for my final piece I want to achieve the same texture and line quality.

Evaluation

 

For the unit x project i felt confident in my work because I knew what I wanted to achieve. So far I have been mixing photography and illustrations. So far I have enjoyed the use of my personal blog but I still do not understand the need for a group blog I am finding it very disruptive to my work and confusing.

I feel a tad stuck and annoyed because I do not have print skills I feel I should be allowed in the print room so I can make some prints using some of the drawings that I have been doing.

So far I have tried to utilise Photoshop in my project as it is the only workshop appropriate to what I am doing at the moment. So far working outside my sketchbook and working on the 30 by 30 cm cardboard has been liberating and less daunting than working in a A3 sketchbook. I even went to London so some exhibitions and my favourite was the one at the Saatchi gallery about photography, it gave me more confidence to try and ‘dress up’ and experiment more I still need add up more props i.e. wigs

So far I am thinking of making engravings like the ones in the in the special collections library, I am have seen some examples in the laser room. For my final piece I think I want to do a very large scale drawing with min portraits I am going to use a roller as material, I suppose it is just an idea, I am going to start doing that as of now to see whether it works or not.

Saatchi Gallery part deux

I particularly enjoyed the work of tis photographer because of one the scale used to print his/her nudes. I am contemplating doing some nude photography as well but I have to pluck up the courage to do it, I will cover the obvious (bits)

Curriculum Vitae

Profile

I am currently studying textiles in practice at MMU and I am mainly interested in print and knitted textiles I am willing to learn other methods of practice. After finishing foundation at CCAD, I decide to take a gap year to figure out what I wanted to specialise in I knew for definite I wanted to study something to do with art or fashion. I set my own online craft shop selling handmade home wares including knitted toys, crocheted cushions and customised clothes. I have put my online shop on hold to focus on my degree but I would like to continue after I finish university.

Employment/work Experience

Garage Menswear- Sales Assistant

Clinton Cards- Sales Assistant

The Shorthorn - Waitress

Education

Cleveland College of Art and Design: Foundation in art and design: Merit grade

St Mary’s College: A’ levels Health and Social Merit, Fine Art C

MMU – Textiles in Practice (current)

Skills

Experienced Hand Knitting/ Crochet

Works well within a team and independently 

Basic knowledge of knitting machines

Basic knowledge of pattern cutting

Adobe Photoshop

Some blogging experience for both Tumblr and Blogger.

Stephane Dauthuille

 

 

 

 

French artist Stephane Dauthuille uses layers of lines and pattern to create these gorgeously ornate images. I  I like the way she uses line and colour in her drawings. Some of them are very neatly and intricately drawn and some of them brash and very colourful. I also like the way she draw her figures.

Find more of her work HERE

Layers and twins

Some drawings I have mixing on the Photoshop, my Photoshop skills are a tad rusty I  always refer to my DIM notes for some help I know the basics. I

Tavi Gevinson

I recommend you watch to also think she is 16 and she started when she was 15 and she is very affluent and well spoken scary only wish i was like that.

Ways to stay creative

Found this list on tumblr and it is spot on

It goes on

I have been feeling a bit deflated with my work at the moment,but alas I have to continue with work. I have started to try and do one drawing or more if I can manage per day. I am not whingeing but I amidst an essay so trying to a drawing per day is tricky whilst trying perfect a pose.

 

I have enjoyed it (sort of) I have been printing some images and doing some manipulation on Photoshop at the same time. I have decided to create a visual research sketchbook because have these images in my sketchbook was not working for me, I felt like my sketchbook was starting to look a bit higgledy piggledy.  I HAVE PUT AN END TO TODAY HURRAH
I have not been able to post thing on my blog because of the lack of internet at my premises, I am in the process of sorting that out at the moment.

George CONDO

Joan of Arc, 2002
Oil on canvas
21" x 18"

Young Red Nude, 2002
Oil on canvas
60" x 48"

The ballerina
oil on canvas

 

Condo's work is, bizarre and explores the saturated world of portraiture in a beautifully original way.I found George Condo’s work after a long hard day in the library after feeling a bit deflated. I am inspired by how alters reality by changing and deforming ‘normal’ facial features and body features. I admire how his work is very detailed something  i intend on working on in my own work.

The vast majority of his so-called “portraits” are not portraits at all but images of imaginary people. His subject matter, which can be simultaneously hilarious and scarifying, puts a lot of people off, but many contemporary artists are in awe of his virtuoso paint handling
Read more HERE

In the morning

Mixed media painting oil pastels, acrylic on board

In the series of

My 30 by 30 cardboard drawings, this part of my project where I was in Limbo going right on track by basing the drawings on me myself and I

ADORNED

I cannot decide whether I like this drawing or not? I suppose it is part of the process bear with me.

No rest for the wicked

Recovering from a dreadful wet weekend, some bits were fun some not, I was looking forward to coming back to Manch only to discover my train was delayed and then after a brief wait it got cancelled someone had topped themselves a Milton Keynes I was just thinking couldn’t they have done it on a different day (cruel i know) but I have lot on my mind things to buy my trip to London stalled my work for a bit I came back to a messy flat and these.

Happy days huh

Saatchi Gallery part un

Over the weekend I went to London for a bit of inspiration. I wanted to go mainly to the Saatchi gallery partly because of the photographic exhibition called OUT OF FOCUS I was pleased that we were allowed to take pictures of pictures in the gallery (pun) This one was the at ground floor of the gallery.




Seeing these images on a computer screen does not do them any justice they are all printed out on 139.7 x 104.1 cm
The exhibition is on going till the 22nd of July I suggest a visit/trip to London.
These image are by Kate Grannan click HERE  see the rest of the images in the collection by Kate Grannan