Painting under the staircase

I should have uploaded a photo of this sooner! It's my best painting to date, I think.

You'll probably all remember meeting me, just in the door as I awkwardly stood painting, with my easel, at the bottom the staircase in the stairwell near the canteen. It took me two days of painting in the dark little pokey-hole but it was worth it :)

Print (28 Feb- 11 March)

Honestly, I only got into the swing of things doing print in the second week. So my first batch of prints look like a kid made them! I would have got a better mark if I spent more time in the print room. But, I enjoyed it! I just hated the lack of space, but I won't rant about it.

Graphics (7-25 feb)

I was really considering doing graphics at the start of the year, but found it difficult. But I guess it could have been a whole lot worse! The word I got was 'sold' which wasn't the easiest for me.

I loved making the video though! And spent all the 2nd week at it...

Painting (24 jan - 4 feb)

I was really happy with the way my paintings turned out! I thought I'd do a whole lot worse, with the 2 weeks being so intense..

Shaking the cobwebs off

Apologies for the lack of posts since January! 
I should really have been keeping this up to date doing the 2 week projects! I was kept busy non-stop. So I'm just going to post a little example of my works from each of the electives in 3 separate posts on the way :)

My little animation

Relief Painting

After messing around with masking tape, and tissue making this picture:

I was advised by my tutors to make a larger one, using wood glue or PVA glue along with tissue to create a relief painting. I got lots of PVA down in the storage room and proceeded:

Almost a gallon of PVA glue, a reem of (clean may I add) toilet paper and tubes of white and blue paint later, I finished my relief painting! 

It's not perfect, but you get the idea!

Stencil prints

Basically, I drew out a simple outline of my famous bridge onto plain card and cut out the black shape, and using this a template printed it rapidly onto plain cotton with acrylic paint and a sponge.

I attempted to dye some of the cotton blue, with well-watered down blue acrylic paint, and printed the same bridge in white paint on it. 

I also tried making a 2nd one with a different picture and ultramarine paint.

Little bit of research

So I'm interested in paper art, and sculptures, I decided to do a bit of research on some other artists along that line. Pamela let me borrow a book and told me about Matt Shlian and Yuko Nishimura, which are amazing sculptors! Their works are out-of-this-world amazing!

(mattshlian.blogspot.com and http://yukonishimura.com/works-en.php)
 by Matt Shlian


I also came across this artist called Chris Burden who makes models of bridges out of meccano! 

In the middle of making a bridge

After a tutorial with Giordana last Monday, I was strongly advised to make more 3D work. So, I found a large sheet of polystyrene in studio 2, and kind of borrowed it.
Using a stanley knife I cut out little bricks out of the polystyrene.

Then I borrowed a glue gun from the storage room and glued the bits together to make the front of the bridge. 

That's how far I've got with that bridge so far