I am currently making changes to my blog in order to make it easier to navigate and also brighten up the site. Whilst the blog wasn’t too difficult to navigate, there were a few things I was unhappy with. The site was a bit too dark and I have been unable to turn off parent pages in the dropdown menus. So, I’m trying to overhaul the site. However, I will still post my normal blog posts in the meantime. Please bear with me, as you may see several changes whilst trying to find solutions.
I’ve done a quick sketch for my Creative Composition class tomorrow. The emphasis isn’t so much on composition but more on line drawing. I’ve never done line drawing before..I’ve never even seen one being done, so it was a bit of a challenge.
This is quite an interesting course. We will do line, tonal, and shape representations, then we will work on image placement through various elements such as contrast of scale, isolation and absence of focal point. Finally we will look at visual transformations or temporal transformations. Thankfully we can use whatever media we like, so it’s a chance for me to go mad!
On another note, remember I said I’d been nominated for a special achievement award? Well, today I received a letter telling me I’d won the award, so it means a nice award ceremony, plus a prize and I get professional photos as well. The ceremony is on 15th December, so I’ll be sure to post a piccie afterwards, so watch this space!
I mentioned way back at the start of last term that certain classes would run all year long. Well my personal project (My Space) is one of those classes. To rehash old territory, I’m reworking my final piece from last term. Basically, I’m taking 4 sections from it and putting them onto 4 separate canvasses, which will be exhibited and sold at the end of the year. So, I tried out a different colour scheme today with different materials. I’m not certain whether I will go with these, but I’m going to try a number of different ideas. I ordered sets of guitars strings last night to add to the canvasses, rather than use string as I did on the last piece.
The first was done with acrylics and tissue paper with coloured wire. On the second I was trying my hand at encaustic artwork. First of all I squeezed out large drops of acrylic paint onto the paper. I didn’t have an encaustic iron, but there was a batik wax heater in the class, so I just scooped up the wax from there and poured it over the paint then I spread it with a palette knife. Can I call it encaustic artwork then? Not sure, but it’s the nearest definition I have. Anyway, the textures came out really fantastically! As I said, I’m just experimenting at this stage but it was really good fun, and I think I would love to add this to my final pieces.
Tomorrow, I’ll be working on my Creative Composition coursework, which means I’ll be using the sculptures I made for Analytical Drawing.
I’ve been absolutely swamped with work these past few days, so I haven’t been able to post as much, but I finally managed to get the sketches done for analytical drawing using my new objects – the ones I made from clay. I’m really glad that I had a go at creating my own sculptures because at least they are unique items, plus it was good experience, even if I toiled ever so slightly! Anyway, here is my drawing:
Anyway, hopefully I’ll be able to talk a bit more tomorrow. Depends how swamped I am. For the moment, I’m off to watch the new episode of Metalocalypse then bed! Night world!
I had my first sculpture class yesterday, and I loved it. Although, I don’t get to prepare my sculpture as yet. At the moment I am researching the brief of face manipulation. Next week I’ll start to make a cast of the face.
The aim of this part is to select a word from:
I chose the word Dismantle then did a mind map of all the connotations of the word. I ended up with gears, cogs, alternator belt, zips and a whole heap of mechanical words. There were others, but these words stood out the most. So, I’ve decided to do a face sculpture akin to a doll from Toy Story – you know, full of machinery, has been butchered, and stuck back together badly – a kind of Frankenstein’s monster.
I’ve no idea what it’s going to look like, but it looks fantastic in my head!
Oh, and going back to analytical drawing, I’ve scrapped the pieces I was originally working on and am going to base it on Painting To A Theme from last term. I hunted the city to try and find pieces of sculpture similar to the style of my paintings but came up with nothing. I was exasperated trying to find something, then on the way home, it hit me. Create my own sculptures! So, today I headed back into town, got some clay, came home and set to it. Well, easier said than done! What a nightmare it was. I had to create 3 pieces, and I spent about 3 hours trying to make them. It was frustrating the life out of me. I mean, it’s not as if I was trying to create anything detailed. Just something abstract. I thought it would be easy. Well, I got that one wrong. Anyway, they’re done now, and they’re totally pants, but I need something to draw for class on Tuesday, so they’ll need to do.
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