22.11.12 TUTORIAL REMEMBER CONCEPT

This week I have spent drawing anything that comes to my mind. From the last tutorial I think I could develop my ideas well by looking wider.

TUTORIAL NOTES

Have I got a little lost along the way? I need to remember the concept!
Story behind the drawings to reveal concept.

"You'll be sleeping with the fishes" The Godfather

I need to keep drawing but narrow my ideas of what I need to draw.. keep the concept!
How have other designers achieved this?


Dan Funderburgh

MULTI HEAD EMBROIDERY

Experimenting with different methods to create pattern.
The multi head is a piece of equipment i have not used yet. At this stage I am only trying the equipment to help progress my ideas for the next unit, I did it to see if I would be able to develop other methods to create pattern design through 3 dimensional stitch which you would expect to see but appears as something else once touched, possible that it has been digitally printed on the laser cutter.

The process of threading up the machine was relatively simple. However I made a mistake of not generating the stitches again once I had made my stitching pattern and resized it. This meant that rather than being an area of fill stitch that should be a block of stitch there were small gaps. I actually quite like the look of this, it was wrong but maybe a happy accident...
From doing this I have now got another skill for the next unit and it has given me another view of how I could recreate recognisable pattern but flip it on it's head eg. creating lace through the multihead

15.11.12 TUTORIAL

Spent this week bringing colour into my project. I have been working very two dimensional and want to bring my components into my work.

I had an induction onto the muilt head embroiderer and spent Wednesday morning putting together my design to stitch up on Thursday I feel I understood the method well and it could work with my idea to remake old ideas and give them a new life by adapting the multi head embroider to look like lace.

TUTORIAL REVIEW 

I have rethought my ideas for presentation and decided to do a simpler photoshoot that does not require such thought into location and styling. I will shoot the model in white garments and use the displace method on photoshop to create the printed garments.

After listening to my course mates process in their projects and Alex’s feedback I realised I need to look back at my initial research and experiment with everything I have. I have got stuck on using my imagery of mouths and recreating that. My project has the potential to be very strong but I have stayed working around one idea and got bored of it and am struggling to progress further.

I need more visual context to work from, I have been able to think about processes and technic but I need to spend longer fine tuning it truly show the emotion in each drawing. I am going to spend a day looking at objects that could work within this., either finding context that from a distance looks like one thing and then reveals another

Eg. illustrator lips into paisley design.

Terrious beasties – looks like 18^th century French textile.

Or adapting something ugly into beauty. Methods to do this could be by taking a flower and photographing it at each stage to see the beauty die out of it and using this to draw from. Taking something that when it is in it’s first cut but finding beauty once control is taken away.

Development that is not in your control.

Running dye down fabric

Hiding unsettling imagery in textiles we recognise.

Cauliflower ear

Twin tower – not know what it is then informed and more shocking.

Burning objects that we recognise.

Dan funderberg – looks like traditional textiles but with venus fly traps

Objects to bury the print. Half pattern half imagery you don’t know is there.

Israely designer – all images are of people having surgery

Things to draw

Boy burying his head in his hands

People shopping with bags

Lamp posts

Scorpion from dads photos

Lizard in sri lanka

Dead carcass in sri lanka

Twin towns falling

Someone sat on the train

Someone asleep on a bench

Someone walking there dog

People fighting

Child crying – iconic image of girl crying

Iphone with violent sceen on screen

Gun

Policeman

Handcuffs

Get imagery of tradition textiles and on tracing paper adapt to mine.

                                                     

JENNY SAVILLE

I want to develop my own way of working that captures the emotion in each pattern I produce. 
I have been looking at different artists to see how they have developed there own methods. Jenny Saville paints extremely beautiful/disturbing imagery. Her paintings are usually much larger than life size. They are strongly pigmented and give a highly sensual impression of the surface of the skin as well as the mass of the body.  

The paintings seem effortless, as if they have been done in a rush but every brush stroke has been thought through thoroughly. 
Depending on the imagery she uses also triggers what colours she brings into the painting. Those where the model seems pained and tired she uses much deeper colours. Whereas when the model looks vulnerable and unable to control what is going on around them she uses much more neutral tones (above)

Her work reminds me of Lucian Freud, who is known for his thickly impastoed portrait and figure paintings. His works are noted for their psychological penetration, and for their often discomforting examination of the relationship between artist and model. 

8.10.12 BUILDERS EYE

My builder came to my house this morning with a black eye and i asked to photograph it. I thought it would be helpful when trying to tell a story behind an image. We do not know if this black eye was due to a fight, an accident or choice of exercise.

This image has made me aware of how many colours are possible on and in the human body. Bruising is evidence of trauma, whether that has been an accident or deliberate.

3.11.12 GLIMPSE

WHP PAUL KALKBRENNER

took these photos on my phones panorama setting. Loved the effect they gave where the strobe has allowed you to get a glimpse of that second in time and then it disappears in darkness a second after.
using darkness and light to allow a pattern to develop could fit well within the trend of interactive arts at this present time.

1.11.12 TUTORIAL

Tutorial Notes

Realised I work well with everything infront of me layed out
Experimenting with size, how does that effect the imagery... does it make it more or less powerful.

This week I have just gone for it, everything that I have collected so far I have looked back on and tried to recreate it in another way or method, I did this to give myself more to work from. At the moment I think my imagery is limited and this is because I have picked a concept that requires explaining but the concept should be known to someone when they look at my work.

I enjoyed the freedom of this task I set myself and it helped to remember the research that I have done but have not progressed with and developed.

TUTORIAL REFLECTION
the imagery works better when large, people thought that the shapes were butterflies, this could be something to progress with to trick them into thinking thats what they see.
These types of images where produced by printing onto acetate and then enlarging on the photocopier. This caused a slight blur onto of the image and the lips looked as though they had fallen ontop of each other. So far my colour pallette has come from my own imagery or drawing of bruises, I could improve these images by painting or embroidery.