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