Evaulation

I started this project with a choice of 4 different briefs,one of them was to do an olympic themed poster and t-shirt which I didn't really like the idea of that, another brief was to do a typography type thing for the exam which once again I did not like the idea of simply because we have done this before and didn't really enjoy it.Their was one other brief which once again I didn't like as it was building nets and we have done that before and I really didn't like that. So in the end I choose to do the illustration brief which is basically doing 5 different posters of a location of your  choice and in that I picked london as it is near me and easy to get pictures of it when I need it.

A person inspired me to do work like what I may do in my exam and my final piece in the exam was the work of tim marrs he does loads of work that looks really good but and the same time looks rally rushed which gives his work a better fill to it and makes some of the images he uses in it have more speed and volume to them.

This project has had me thinking for different outcomes, some of the outcomes that I thought of was to do a moo print which was a good idea but when I went to do it I didn't feel like it came out very well so their for left that aside as an idea.Another cool idea to do was to just draw out loads of pictures and place them in a book so that people good just flick though and look at some of my drawings, but when it came to it I knew that I wouldn't have enough time to get a good 5 drawings done in the space of 8 hours.

For my final outcome and for my thing to do in the exam was to do a stencil like piece with spray paint to fill in the gaps of the stencils, with this it goes back to the work of Tim Marrs and also another artist has inspired me during the exam which is the work of the street artist banskey who I have loved the work of for years but have never goten a chance to do some work like his. So I got to work doing loads of experiments for this and I really liked this 3-D experiment that I tried out on a city line of london that worked really well with its colours and stencil

My final thoughts on all the work that I have done though out the exam is that it took a very long time to cut out every stencil which could have costed me dueing the exam but in the end I pulled though and did some amazing stencils which are of.

• Tower bridge 
• Mayors office ( city hall )
• St Pauls cathedral 
• A famous red phone box
• and of course houses of parliaments ( big ben )

With all 5 of the posters done I have finished my exam and all in all I think that I have done a very good job maybe not of the big ben poster but the rest I feel are to the greatness of what I can do with my work.

Unit 2, Encounters, experiences and meetings: Exam Plan

This is my exam planner on how I will plan out this exam for the next two days, I have looked at what I need a listed my materials as you can see all I will need is spray paint, card and also a craft knife to cut out the stencils to spray on the A-3 sheet that will become my final piece for my exam.

Unit 2, Encounters, experiences and meetings: Poster Ideas

This is one of my experiments of a stencil that I created dueing a lesson, with this one I sprayed on one colour then I moved the stencil just a tad to the left and used a different colour which made it look a bit 3-D in a way.

Review of Ideas

• How have your original ideas / concepts changed from the start of the project? Well first I had the idea of doing a city landscape by doing it in Lino now I am going to now do a spray paint technique with it.
• How have your original ideas developed through experimenting with techniques, materials and equipment? I have tried different images that I have taken in london and different cutting techniques to get a different shape when you spray paint.  
• How have your original ideas developed as a result of researching the work of others? Yes I have seen some work online and I really liked the look of the spray paint.
• Do you think your ideas will continue to change and develop as your work progresses? Do you have any further experimenting / research to do that you think might change / improve your ideas? With my ideas I dont think they will be changing any time soon, Yes I will b further experimenting until I have found the perfect image to work with in my exam.

Unit 2, Encounters, experiences and meetings: Poster ideas and techniques

These are my experiments on some stencils and different types drawing techniques, such as simply drawing, stecnil work which started out being a drawing, coloring in the drawing and also drawing the coloring in of the drawing in chalk.

Unit 2, Encounters, experiences and meetings: Experiments

This is the first image that you start with and after this I will end up cutting out different parts that would then be used to spray onto another piece of paper.

Unit 2, Encounters, experiences and meetings: Primary research to pick me up

This is a exhibition and a place where you could meet the artist's and see their work and even try out some of their techniques they use to make the work, this was a extra bit of work that we could of done which I did and learnt alot from it and even had some fun looking at some of the artist's work.

Unit 2, Encounters, experiences and meetings: Lino cuttings

To start with you have to do a traceing of a image that you would like to do a linocutting for, so in this case I choose a bit of london that creates a skyline to cut out and make into a print for Lino. So the image above this paragraph is infact my traceing of the image that I will use when cutting out my Lino. 

This is my final image of the linocut, first of all you get the traced image of what ever you have and draw onto the paper onto the Lino, once the image is their you can cut into it with your Lino cutting tool.First i did the outline of the buildings which in that some had different widths so with that you will have to use different lino cuttings tools or just change the end of the one you have already.

LINO 

Characteristics:

Smooth,durable, bendy, tough, flat, hard, reinforced, can carve into Lino, thin, 

Potentials  

• Can print with it
• Carve into it
• emboss and rubbings 
• Reduction printing
• tough and sturdy 
• Print onto many different surfaces 
• Easy to do

Limitations

• Cant do to many mistakes
• not in 3-D
• hard to cut into
• Limited colour 
• Hard to tidy up
• Smells funny 
• Had to use white sprit to get it off the Lino
• Long time to dry
• Time consuming 
• Not easy to get details in to the Lino

                                                                                                        

Unit 2, Encounters, experiences and meetings: Initial ideas

This is my initial ideas for my final idea, to start with I used this chance to look into more indepth anaylis on david shrigley which is what I have done in the bottom left hand corner. I have looked at two of his pieces that really shine out to me which is, one the dog that is stuffed and put on display to say that he is dead,two the sort of diagram that says "I remember he told me to look up, so I looked up then my hot dog had gone", This are my favioute because of the weirdness of the pieces.Here is the link to his page david shrigley

My first idea which is the poster idea on the bottom right hand corner is a poster of something that is related to new york city, so first I used the statue of liberty which was the first thing I thought of when I thought of new york. So when that was done I drew the words out new york in my own typographical way in away.

My secound idea is for my postcards in which I did to different ideas,One idea is to use the ever so famous london bus which would become the shape of the postcard which is a good idea but yet I think my other idea for my postcards is a lot better than the bus, the idea is that it is big ben or the house of parlerment is a better shape out line than the bus with a better drawing on the other side of the postcard in its self.

My last Idea which is what I will use most likely use as an idea, it is the idea of a artist sketch book but Im using a different method in this idea which is using a concertina which is the idea of when the customer opens the book it will open as I have shown on the top left hand corner and will have annotations and loads of sketches front and back of the concertina.

So with all these ideas in mind I will hopefully and most likely use the idea of the concertina as it is what I like to do all in one project and also has the idea of the book which makes it so much better for me.I would most likely use paper/card and pencils to draw all my images, maybe I could use paper card/paper for the cover of the book, I may also need to use a craft knife for the front cover as well.

Brief qustionare

-I have selected this brief because it s more me with drawing and illustrations.

-I am planing on looking at primary and secondary research one from me going to london to draw all day, and the other from the internet.

-Hennie Haworth, Lizzie finn, Danny allison and one that wasnt on the brief was David Shiregly who was a bit like me in away.

-I would like to experiment with loads of different techniques that would have to do with my subject which is travel

-I am planning on make my self a poster of 5 different illustrations

exhibition review

The exhibition that we went to for a college trip was an exhibition for two artist called, jeremy dellar and David shirgley.In which the exhibition was held in london, the gallery its self is called the Hayward Gallery london.
He was born in Macclesfield on 17 September 1968, he also studied in the lesson at the foundation level at a college in macclesfield.Jeremy Deller studied at dulwich college in london, england 
My two favourite pieces from the artist's, one my David Shirgley is the piece in the exhibition which is the dead stuffed dog that has a sign in his hand that says "Im dead".


The reason why this is my favioute bit of the exhibition as it is a dog that well has been stuffed that shows off the fact that it is dead and also I like the weirdness of the whole thing.

The coffee shop in the gallery is interactive and the coffee their is free so all the people in being behind the counter serve free tea all day long and this is the interactive art which is a really good idea and you also get free tea.














The piece of art with the mouth and when you walk into it a film is playing which happens all day long was propley my lest favouite piece of work in the gallery as it was boring and wasnt very intresting although I did like the idea of you going into the artist mind as in going into a mouth.


With david Shrigley I didnt have any piece by him that i didnt really like, this guy is a artist that I could end up being one day and in all this he has become a famous artist that has really inspired me to become more like him ion away.




The whole gallery and experance of it all was great although I thought the first artist" Jeremy Deller" wasnt as good as the secound artist that we saw which was weird so their for like my line of work and is more like me.With this in mind I really think that David Shrigley is really going to inspire me to do more work like his in my exam piece as he is my new favioute artist. In my view I think that jeremy trys to act more like David but doesnt do as well as him because he is alot weirder and a lot better work produced in his work.

observational drawings

exbition drawing

When we all went up to London on a trip to see an exhibition that really inspired me to do more work like the artist that we saw, so when it was other I thought sense we was in London I may as well draw some of the scenery around here and we got told to of course, first picture is a piece of art outside the exhibition which I thought was really well done.The second picture is of the house's of parilements which I thought was done very well.The last picture is of a egg that's cracked which may be saying that society is broken or may juts be a cracked egg.

Paper installation

This is a task which involved a group of us to make a scene out of paper, and the bits that I have circled are the parts of this which I have made a drawn out my self in some case's

paper experiments

Trip pcitures

Indepth analysis Sydney opera house

The piece of work that was done by a small group of people no more than at least 10, the groups manager was darcy prendergast and along with his freinds they made the sydney opera house and its surroundings out of things that you can easyly buy at the shop ( staples ).The whole idea for this is so that you could win a trip to Australia which is why they choose to make one of austraillas most touristey part ( sydney ).
With in the work you can see the materails which you can buy in the shop staples which are pens,markers,pencils,paperclip,glue,ruler,string,crayons,eraser and last of all tip ex to color in the sydney opera house. Some keywords that would best fit this piece of work would be that it is very creatively done, it is orginal and as far as I know it one of a kind, it is also very 3-D like in the way the building in the landscape have been made.
My personal opnion on the work is that it is very well done, although it doesnt look very realistic for me it makes it look so much better as it has a sense of this work could be real. I really like the way that everything that made this piece of work is in the shop of stationery staples.All in all i think it is an amzing piece and the work looks so much better because it has been done by about 10 people so its not all one mans doing this work.

indepth ananylis

This piece of work done by the artist Hort is a really good example of paper techniques as it shows that you can make even the simplist of works into a really cool and funky way. So to start of with the artist uses only what looks like card and paper which makes this piece of work even better as it is ver simple but yet very affective.Now with the shadowing of this the artist only uses the windows for the boreing buildings so to say by cutting evey single piece bit by bit which makes this piece of work look boreing at first but when you look over to the color side of things you can see the artist has either colored the buildings, the trees and the bikes by hand or has used card/ paper to create such simple shapes.The way this piece is done makes it look 10 times better, as the piece makes you feel more like everynow and then you can take away something boring and make it fun which is shown by useing primary school colors to go back to your childhood in away. With all this in mind the piece really stood out to me to be a really well done piece of art/work and it makes sense to me so in that makes it great for me to look at.