Life Drawing

Life drawing plays a very important part with in my course, as we spend at least 1-2 hours a week in the life room studying our models. I really enjoy life drawing and the different techniques and mediums we use.
These are just a few:
. Acrylics
. Pencil
. Charcoal
. Inks
. etc...

We also chose artists that we have been researching from each project and create a piece of life drawing in the style of their work...

Aurbrey Beardsley

Created with inks

Drawing People

Where ever I go, a always seek opportunities to be creative. I carry a pen and pencil with me at all times just in case I find something I want to jot down or sketch. People's appearance is a big interest of mine, it fascinates me how each person I see will be unique to the next. I focus mainly on the head to shoulders when I study,draw or paint someone. Along with my pen and pencil, I am never without a camera, I take photographs of EVERYTHING! If I see someone I think has a interesting face, I cant help but want to draw them, so I might ask if I could take a photograph of them. I find that most of the people I draw are middle aged to elderly men as to me, they have the most texture and detail on their faces. The people who stand out most are those with a distinctive feature, for example either:
. Beard
. Moustache
. Long Hair
. Wrinkles
. An enlarged feature:
                    . Nose
                    . Lips
                    . Eyes
                    . Eyebrows
                    . Etc...
The latest one I finished is from my holiday to Italy where I stayed with a family friend, her husband and son. Luca, her husband, has really interesting features: I love his long hair, beard and moustache and his eyebrows. I really enjoyed drawing Luca and am very proud of how it turned out. I gave then the drawing as a present when they came back to England for a visit.

 Luca

Observation - Fine Art

Arnulf Rainer Inspired 

A lot of my work is inspired by the natural elements, and this project is no different. I decided to observe the following:

. Burning Wood (Fire)

. Trees and leaves (Earth)

. The Sea (Water)

After a trip to Paris visiting Art Galleries and Museums, I was captured mostly by the work of Arnulf Rainer. I have studies his work in previous projects but never in depth. After creating mountains of artist research and primary/secondary research I decided to create my work in a similar style as Rainer.

After deciding what my subjects would be I went out to take my photographs. I created many samples and experiments keeping in mind Rainer's over painting techniques. I painted over coloured and black and white images, finally deciding on black and white due to a more dramatic outcome.

I printed out my images in A2 and started to paint over the top.
Here are my three finished pieces...

Animation

For this project I was to create a short animation to go with a song of my choice. It could relate this to the lyrics of the song, or I could create my own story...
We looked at many different types of animation including:
. Paper
. Photo Stop Motion
. Collage
. Clay
. Sand
. Hand Drawn
. etc...
We also had to create our own techniques related to one of the above. I chose hand drawn, but instead of drawing on paper or a chalk board, my painting would be on a window. I like to call this Window Animation.
The idea was to paint or draw onto the window whilst keeping in mind and relating to, what you can see through the window. For my window animation I created a short story about a UFO flying past, it lands on a building that I could see thought the window, flies back off again and tree grown in its place and the sun starts to shine. This was to represent how we may need more help in the future to keep our planet a safe and healthy place if we don't look after it now.

Here is my window animation....

UFO

After exploring all of the different techniques I found I really enjoyed making Paper, Photo Stop Motion and Clay animations.
Here are my experiments with the above three...

Frog

Through the corridors, Through the Street

Things???

After all my experiments were complete I decided to make a clay animation for my final piece. This is because I love it's 'charming' and 'child-like' look. I selected my song and created a narrative to follow. I decided to take one or two lines out of the song and create my story around that.
Here is my final piece for Animation...

Communion Cups and Someone's Coat