This slide show has pictures of some models I made (for the playpark project), competition entries, my book and some research pages.
Art and Design
General Art
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011Telford Work
Sunday, January 16th, 2011Please enable Javascript and Flash to view this Flash video.I do a life Drawing class at Telford College every Wednesday. There are three groups which rotate each week between drawing techniques, ie getting proportions correct etc, mediums and textured surfaces, then finally drawing from a model.
Here are some pictures of what I have done so far. This includes a dress done in tester decorative paints from Homebase. Also there is a series of drawings of the same outfit but with different styles (left to right) line drawing, tonal and oil pastel. Similarly, I did a series of techniques (left to right) right hand, left hand, where the pen doesn’t leave the page and finally with eyes closed.
Trip to The Natural History Museum
Sunday, January 16th, 2011In october my Advanced Higher Art class took a trip to the natural History of Art Museum in town. This was a key opportunity to make a couple of sketches of animals mainly because until this point I was drawing from pictures, so to be able to study stuffed animals gave me a sense of perspective and texture.
Higher Art
Sunday, January 16th, 2011For the Expressive folio I chose the theme ”In the Kitchen” where I researched into items often found in a kitchen. Then I developed this idea by trying different layouts and alternative mediums. I found that it looked best when using high key lighting. The final Piece was set in my kitchen with a objects set around a pot.
I chose to make a clock for the design folio, it is based on African animals. I tried to recreate the shapes and forms of animals with clay, paper mache and balsa wood. The final design is a tiger with zebra, elephant, giraffe and crocodile overlooking from behind, along with each animal’s tail hanging on a spring below the tiger’s body.
Art research
Sunday, December 5th, 2010In Advanced Hight Art and Design my theme is the zoo as the aim is to create a childrens playground set in the zoo. As part of the research for this I drew pictures of animals to get an idea of the shapes which could be used to develop in order to make the playground relevent. The elephant was done in biro with watercolour on top. This mixed medium helped me to branch out and experiment with other types of medium. Both the orangatange and dear was done in colourd pencils where as the parrote was created by layering up colours by printing.
General designs and hand made objects
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010In this slide are some images of other projects i have created. It includes a wooden box made with a dovetail joint. I then pirographed my initials on to a pannel platformed above the lid. The nex is a pencil box i made in second year, the lid is scewed into a wooden block which allows it to swivel into place. The design on the top is to give the impression of a chocolate bar, the wrapper is the on the lid that opens. The mirror has a design illistrating a row of flowers allong the top. The center of each flower has been drilled out and had yellow acrilic plastic put in its place. In standerd grade graphic communication I used technical drawings to design and create a model hospital building. it has to semi-circles joined by a taller cylender. While making the clock I used a hegnasaw to get the most precise shape for the face and stand. The latter of the two pictures shows best how it fits together and the joining of the mechanisims to the hands. The clock hands were made from a flexable metal which made it easy to wrap around a cocktail stick in order to create a sprinny shape. Lastly is a sculpture of a head which I made in Standard Grade Art and design. The brief was to design something you might see in a sci-fi film. I chose to base it on a woman who had a double personality. The left represents the devil and a particularly evil side where as the right is an angel.