3D

In this workshop,  we were asked to produce an sample from the artists we were shown.  I decide to do Ostinelli and Priest because I was influence by their use of subject and the textures they produce within their works,  that could feel rough, bumpy in some area and        uneven.

But before we could make our samples out of white earthenware clay we did few drawings of our choose animal, did from obevetional animals mainly focusing on the head as the artists who influenced us is, Henry Moore who is a sculptor but also does drawing of animals,  using variety of lines to forms the shape of the creatures.

After that, I began to make the animal,  chooses

• Collected enough white clay
• Shaped a medium lump into a ball
• Sat it on the table, using my fingers began to rub at the sides of the ball so I could make it form the right head shape of the bird
• When satisfied with the head shape I started to add the eyes in. By collecting a small clay which I formed into a ball, by rubbing it in circular movement with my palms.
• Then, drew lines going in different directions at the bottom of the tiny ball, and where the eyeball could go. Using slip, I corsed it and placed the eyeball where I wanted it
• The step at the top was repeated for the left eye, with a tiny, clay rolled in a line and placed around the eyes, as seen at the image at the bottom with the eye.

• After, using a wooden stick with pointed edge, began to draw the furs of the bird in different lines thickness,  going every directions,  creating movement.

• Put enough amount of the white into a bowl
• Add water, using your hand mix the white....and the water together in a circular moment
• Collect a filter that have the holes which are big enough for the liquid to get through. I used size of '60'. The bigger the filter gets the bigger the holes.
• Because the liquid was thick and it was going slower through the filter into a bowl, I move it around in circular movement with my fingers, which made the liquid to pass through the filter quicker. 
• After painted it on my head, leaving the head unpainted as I want it to look black
• Repeated step 3 for the black, which I then lay over the white one
• Then added the....Over it.

In the other lesson we were asked to create a hirbid form sample in pairs.

Here are the samples. 

 The body of the doll and head were mold cast and glue together, using slip.

Coloured with raku for the body

The head coloured in

Graphic

Digital Montage

These image displayed here are images I used to create my final outcome samples of the drawing.

Digital Image ManipulaWorkshop-Photoshop

Using the rotation tool to move objects around

• select the layer, or object you which to rotate 
• choose edit, transform and rotate
• a bouncing box will appear around the object and by hovering  the cursor to the side of any corners, there will be arrows which will appear suggesting how the box could turn
• click and hold the mouse and rotate box as required. When the correction position has been reached let go of the mouse
• then press enter on the keypad or double click inside the bounding box

Using the transform function to resize selected objects

• select the layer or object you wish to resize
• choose edit transform and scale
• again, a bounding box will appear around the object and by hovering the cursor to any corners, arrows will show up suggesting how the box could be pushed in or pulled in
• click and hold the swift key to keep proportion while clicking the mouse it will push in or pull out the box as required. When you got the correct size, let go of the mouse
• then press enter on the keypad or double click inside the bounding box

Using blending modes to mix layers and create blended imagery

• in the layers palette, just under the word 'layers' is the blending mode menu
• by selecting a layer above another or other layers an effect can be created which can blends layers. Creating a very good outstanding finish
• carry on playing around with this mode until you find an effect that truly makes you happy

Using the pen tool to make a selection path

• open up Photoshop and the image you want to make a selection path on 
• select the path palette (at the right hand side of the workspace) and create a new path by clicking the icon at the bottom of the palette
•  go to layers palette and make sure the layer you wish to make path is on and selected
• select pen tool in the tool bar
• make start point by clicking on the image and then click in stages to complete the path. 
• make sure the path is joined by clicking on the original starting point where a small 'o' will appear at the bottom of the cursor
• turn path into a selection by clicking on the 'load path as a selection' icon at the bottom of the paths palette
• make sure you are using the layers palette, drag and drop the selected onto your required image

Using hue and Saturation to change colour of'selected objects quickly

• select the layer or object you wish to change colours
• choose select 'load selection'. In the dialogues box that appear make sure that the channel option has the layer and object that you wish to change colour of selected
• a selection will appear around the item you wish to change colour
• choose layer, new adjustment layer, hue and saturation 
• hue and saturation box dialogue will appear. By adjusting the sliders you will be able to change colour, saturation, (amount of colour) and brightness. Keep experimenting till you have the desire colour you want and click ok
• in the layer palette you will notice above the layer a hue saturation layer. By double clicking in the left hand of the layer thumbnail, the dialogue box can be relaunch and you can do the colour adjustment further  

Remember that the 'colourise' box can be chosen which makes the selection one tonal colour that can be adjusted as required.

Photographic Portraits

In this lesson we were set in twos where we took images of each other body parts on plain background. This was inspired by Kevin Meredith who is a British photographer. He is famous for his use of Lomo-LCA camera and his 'lomo' graphic use of styles.
 I am really intrigueby some of his works like the use of colours and textured backgrounds. But is not some I could really be inspire by when making my final outcome.



These are examples of his works. I like the bright sea blue colour of the image background in the middle that seem to blend in with the man's coat. The man wearing darker shade of blues makes him to clearly stand out against the background. The image looks centred.

http://lomokev.com/portfolio/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lomokev

Painting

In this lesson were told to do a piece of final outcome painting,  using oil paints and white spirt.

I started off by painting the board which already had a piece of work on it in brown, using acrylic paints and large brush. I applied the paints in various directions because I wanted, when a person look closer at it to see movements.

When dry, started to draw the bird on it from obsvational lightly, using a soft pencil. Considering the compsitions carefully so that the entire bird could fit accurately. After I began to apply paints. I painted the bird in darker colours because it was easier to mix with light colours and stands out well. Looking closer you will notice that the legs are very uneven so that could be work on later on. When the paintings were applied, the paints were left for a week so that it could dry a later as I did not want the paint mixing together when I put knew layer of court at the top.

After I began to work over it now in lighter colours along with the details of the feathers. When adding the feathers, the paints were stippled loosely because I wanted to achieve a rough, uneven texture surface.

A closer view of the painting.

Oil painting was used because we were expecting, or in with different media and 9 you can get rich colours within them. The painting of the bird which I have done have muted colours and different tones, showing light and dark areas.  

Some of the lines are curved, quite straight and quite pointed.

 The feathers within the body with lines which are thick and thin in various positions create movements. 

The thick lines make them appear stronger. Giving depth to the piece. The intense details of the various thickness of the lines reminds of peacock.  

The background complement each other as they blend really well together and makes each other them to be less overpowering for one another. However the bird stills stands out clearly.  

The composition is symmetrical and the textures is quite rough and uneven. 

The limtition of using oil painting is, although they can be recycled when dry but trying to blend in the colours while the paint is wet is very difficult. Although I let the colours to dry for a week but still it was wet so you will have to leave it for weeks or months for it dry correctly if you do not want colours bending in with we achieve other.

Inspirational artists homepage

https://www.behance.net/gallery/565328/iris
http://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/wangechi_mutu.htm

Experiment: Movements

Firstly these images were taken by me in a dance studio. The setting of the camera was set to apture and the shutter speed was set to 30 or 60 because the images were been taken indoor. Also I had control over it. Setting it at those numbers makes the images taken to be brighter slightly however at some point the flash was pulled  up because some images were looking dull and sepia.

It was really difficult to zoom in because when I did each time the focal point could be very blurry so I had to step forward and zoom back and turning the lens so that the image could clear.
This image with the legs at the left and right side remind me of a drawing of....

Hannah Hoch

Hannah Hoch was born on November 1 1889, Gotha Germany. In 1978 she died in Berlin.

http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2006/dada/artists/hoch.shtm

She is best known for her photo-montage where she uses imagery and combines male and female within them. Her pieces are about the political Weimar German Government. She's inspired by pablo Picasso and Kurt Schwitters. These artists works make her to think about the compositions of her pieces where she actually shared dynamic and layered style with them. Her art pieces focused more on narrowly of gender issues.

http://www.artfortune.com/hannah-hoch/artist-129538/

Dada was influence by the world war one. Artists produce horror artworks to shock people. Seeing people reaction to this piece of movement encouraged the artists to carry on making more works as they were fed up about the world as they saw no point of it happening, they didn't want to be part of it. So they tried to rebelliously make works that have something to do with nationalism, rationalism and materialism. This movement was abstract, whimsical, colourful, wittily sarcastic and expressionism. They have made surrealists art disappeared but some Dada artists has moved to surrealists like the Chapman Brothers who was influence by this movement.

http://arthistory.about.com/cs/arthistory10one/a/dada.htm

So looking at what was happening in 1916 Hannah Hoch decided to be influence by this and  speak out about her emotions about these rules through her work.


Das schone Madchen {The Beautiful Girl} 1920
Collage


The composition of the work looks centred. The objects are out of scale, she might have done this so that she could make the most important objects stands out well and the smaller size objects might look it doesn't look important. The piece looks quite packed. Some lines are bold and strong. The background looks very vintage making the whole objects on it to look old apart from the white light bulb that seem to stand out really well. The focal point on this piece is the white bulb. The artists might have done to make it see like the most important object she wants the viewers to pay attention to.

Charlotte Caron

Caron is a French artists who graduated with a fine art, honour in 2011. Her pieces are divided into four section- landscape, portraits, anatomy and vanities. These portraits series shows human in photographs which had paint on top of them, producing an animal features on the face instead of leaving the humans. Her artworks are very unrealistic and dreamy. Caron pieces give out the idea of animal like behaviour impression.

Colour mixing is very important to her. She uses DSLR to take her human images to get good quality. Caron uses different brushes like small brushes, using them for the stroke of hair on the beak and larger brushes to create shape.

I have decided to choose this piece of her work because I love how the vivid colours blend well and complement each other. The use of her limited two tones colour reminds me of a ghost and the movement of the tin lines dripping down reminds me of a running river. The lines are quite scrappy but yet creates interesting details. At first when I saw this I thought it was simple but it is very complicated especially since she uses acrylic paint. But the technique of painting is very difficult as you have to think about the lines, the brushes and firmness you use because it has a huge impact on paintings. The idea of the mask covering the model's entire face shows that the person is hiding their dignity and trying to become someone else no one knows.

The light and dark areas give out tone showing where the light was reflecting while the artists was painting this piece. Also looking at her pieces of work, you began to question yourself why did she use animal on the entire human face, but when you study this clearly you will begun to understand that animals and us are all the same. We were somehow made from these creatures which shows although we might be good on the outside but inside we are all animals full with evil on earth.

Although I do really like her artwork and love her technique but I will not be doing too much study on her, however, the use of her subject of giving humans different dignity make me inspired to actually think about something like this but, I will not be using her technique or doing a respond to her work, as she is not someone who is quite relevant to final outcome.

http://laurencarrphoto.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/charlotte-caron-analysis.html

 http://beautifuldecay.com/2013/05/31/photographed-portraits-and-painted-animal-masks-by-charlotte-caron/

Picasso

Picasso was a surrealism and cubism artist.  Surrealism artists works are less violent and artistically having juxtaposition so he put theses in with his use of vibrant colours and miss placed shapes so that his pieces could have deeper meaning instead of using darker colours.

The title of this piece is called 'the head of a woman reading." It was made 1953 and the medium is paint on canvas.

Picasso uses colours like a sunrise,  orange and red. There  are also monochrome colours. He uses a dark purple and a dark brown with red, darker blue and a slightly lighter blue.  On the left side he has the yellow orange in different tones to show light and dark.  The colours are flat.  In the middle you have the white with left side being brighter and the right side is dark. It's like he us trying to balance the emotions.

Some of the lines are quite thin while some are quite thick and bold making them appear stronger.  The lines are childlike which make them space out, they are also parallel.

There are triangle, some of it has semi-circles.  It contains some geometric shapes like a trapezium.

Picasso has used a paintbrush to create lines, some jagged and some straight. The painting is a portrait of a woman with her hands folding in front of her. The lines down the middle references Matisse. The lines outline the unrealistic colours that have been randomly applied to the model's face. The face is unsymmetrical.

The painting is very abstract. It has been distorted.

This piece makes me have miss feelings about it. The brighter side of the face make me think about the woman been happy why the darker colour on the other side gives me the clue of the woman been depressed. The idea of her reading whatever is in her hand shows that she might be reliving something tragic but yet trying to stay positive and remember the good time with the use of the vibrant colour at the left side.

The painting at the bottom is an inspiration of my mask which I did  in my book with pencil and decided to redraw it but this time trying to use the same techniques and materials Picasso uses. The reason why I chose to , ink him to my idea of making an African mask is because Picasso was inspired by African masks.

The lines in my response of his work is quite jagged, bold and thin. There are curved lines.