29/11/15

For my graphics project I've been given the culture of the Middle East and I'm going to be designing the packaging for a light bulb. For my illustration project I think I'm going to pick the 'Heart on Your Sleeve' article about smart clothing that can monitor your heart rate, respiration and speed etc.
While I know i came to the viscom option because of my love of illustration and my plans to continue it onto further education I am feeling far more inspired by my graphics project brief. I just hope it doesn't lead me to ignore my illustration project slightly as that is the course I am most interested in, even if I don't find the article particularly exciting.

22/11/15

The art deadline is tomorrow and I honestly feel incredibly happy with the work I've done however having the extra two weeks for this project what with half term and the penzance trip meaning half the college was away was a big big help. If we hadn't had those extra two hidden weeks, my lack of inspiration at the start of the project would have caused some serious problems.
Over the past two weeks I've been working with my idea of mixing my 'isolated' sketches with my abstract work. I've been using as many different methods as I could think of, including printing, hand and machine embroidery, posca pens, paint and drawing with light etc. I don't feel I ended the project with a set *final piece* as I think I could have kept this project going for a long time and I might attempt to work into it some more during the christmas holidays.

8/11/15

Still struggling slightly to find motivation or inspiration. I decided to go and sit in a coffee shop in the centre of town and do quick sketches of everyone that I saw a bit like the drawing I did of the men at my work, playing on the idea that anyone and everyone you see will feel isolation in someway. Everyone is fighting their own battles whether you can see it happening or not. I like the idea of mixing this style of simple, black sketches with the same sort of abstract stuff I worked on at the start of the project.

25/10/15

The fine art project has been launched and I’m struggling for inspiration, I think I’ve decided to go with the word ‘Isolated’ and focus on people in isolating situations. On a quiet day at work I noticed two men sat drinking together but not saying a word, I grabbed a pen and some till roll and stood behind the bar to draw them. I also did a few abstract, colourful experiments while at college. I like the idea of combining these two styles, however I’m seriously struggling to see how I can turn this into a whole 3 week project, hopefully I’ll return from half term with some new ideas.

 

18/10/15

The deadline is tomorrow and while I feel my sketchbook is full of a lot of experiments and information I’m kind of gutted I didn’t have enough time to finish my final piece, even though I know it was only a 3 week project and no one was expected to finish them. I decided for my final piece I was going to make a 3d structure of one of the buildings I’ve been studying and ‘re-vamp’ it with colourful embroidery thread. While a dabbled with a few ideas I settled on using cardboard as it was easier to get the most done in order to show what my ideas were for the project however I love the idea of creating something bigger using laser-cut wood. Maybe another time.

11/10/15

I finally managed a trip to Parcel Force this week, had to blag my way through the gates at the train station so I could go and stand on the end platform in order to get some decent pictures of the building, however there was a train in the way that wasn’t due to leave for a good 20 minutes so decided getting on the train, walking up and down it and sticking my head out of the window to get my pictures was the only way! It did mean I got that extra couple of feet closer to the building so I guess it worked to my advantage. I then printed all of my favourite pictures out in order to sew into them and experiment with other ideas. I also got a couple photos of Bristol Cathedral and I want to work church structures into my project. I ended this week with a trip to an exhibition in Stokes Croft called ‘Derelict Dolls House’ as I thought it would give me some inspiration for my project.

                                        

04/10/15

After the launch of the project title at the start of this week I spent the rest of the week getting very excited about plans that I didn’t really manage to pull off. However, within the first half of the launch I had already decided which artists I wanted to look at and which type of architecture I wanted to study. Abandoned buildings have always fascinated me and I was very excited to get started on a project that allowed me to focus on them. I planned to go and photograph some old buildings I had seen around Bristol and always wanted to break into, some ideas surrounding the old parcel force building behind temple meads had really started to take shape in my mind, however I didn’t manage to get out and photograph any of these buildings this week. I made my mood board and a couple sewing samples, which inspired a few new ideas as well, but next week’s goal is to get out and get those pictures.

27/09/15

Dismaland!! Very exciting, very dismal, quite cold. Project however is going slightly off course, spent a little too long on black and white, so while I’m rather happy with how that portion of my sketchbook has turned out, I feel the colour section was rather neglected and I struggled a lot more to produce work I was actually happy with as I had a lot further to fall than when I was in the comfortable boundaries of black and white. I’ve hidden more and more in my sketch book as the week’s progressed and I am now severely lacking in large colour pieces and I’ve had a bunch of ideas I’d like to pursue with about 0 days left to do them. 

20/09/15

I’ve realised this week that I’m going to struggle slightly balancing work and going to a college so far away from my house with all this coursework on top of it, but I’m sure it’s going to be worth the extra effort, however Tuesdays ‘trip’ to Bristol sure helped me get my extra couple hours sleep. I less sketches than I would have hoped on that trip but I’ve had a lot of fun exploring ideas with some of the photos I took, I’m finding it harder and harder to stick to the black and white guidelines and I can’t wait to start colour however I think I might have to overlap a little as I haven’t got a volume of work done that I’m necessarily happy with. I did manage to get an A1 piece done though so pretty proud of that I suppose. 

13/09/15

This week started off with a fairly dreary trip to weston sea-front, however I think the wet atmosphere made for a few fairly interesting sketches and it made it an awful lot easier to keep to the black and white guidelines. I'm really happy with this project title as at the moment as I feel it’s a rather loose term, and I can have the freedom I want with it, however I’m not entirely comfortable with the scale of the work we need to be producing, I supposed art foundation is a time to be pushing myself though, I guess this is a chance to see just how much I can push myself.