new project 3rd year...

okay, so the research starts again! as were completely on our own with this brief the tutors have made it really clear how important it is to base it on something that interests us. Im still writing the final statement, but my initial idea was to base it around war or past events like the twin towers...and aiming it a young target audience, carrying on with keeping my work 3d I wanted to make something that could maybe be acted out?

After talking through i've realised how broad my subject is and started to focus much more on the holocaust as its come to the time where soon there will be no more survivors left. I've just bought the book "when hitler stole pink rabbit" as i've read a lot of good reviews on it as its based for children but doesn't patronise the reader.

summer pieces...

These are just a couple of pieces I got asked to do over the summer for family.

sewing!

for a while I've really wanted to try out using a sewing machine within my work, I saw this in

a shop and it made me realise how much can be done with it, especially with all the spare materials that i keep! can see where my student loan will be going...

watercolour..

I've never managed to get the hang of watercolour's and decided to try it a couple of times over the summer, the only one I am happy with is really the blonde girl, but I was surprised how I enjoyed it a bit more than I remembered.

reference

http://www.jianhui.co.uk/lookbook/

(not sure if I like the new icons, have know idea if I've managed to make that a link!)

found some of jianhui's work for sale at the fashion and textiles museum,

loved the use of all the beads and the intricacy of his work.

photoshop course

I did a photoshop course of the summer, which will hopefully help me a lot this year! they gave us a lot of images to play around with while we learnt the tools, and so I decided to do a few drawings from them...

fashion and textiles museum

I no...not the best photography! but found the illustrations really interesting so wanted to a quick photo, there was a Tommy Nutter exhibition on when I went to visit and even though the museum was really small, it was well thought out and had a lot of his work on display

Jade Folawiyo

I saw Jades work at the design museum and it just made me realise how you can use pretty much anything to create art! her work was made from metals and the ways they tarnish in chemical reactions formed the actual work...sounds pretty complicated to do but think it really pays of in the work.

design time

loved this- the paper flipped open and created different words/numbers

design time

A lot of my work last year ended up being in 3-D and after doing my placement where a lot of the company worked on product design, I thought I should take a better look at the design industry!

heres a quick sketch from on the way...

(have no idea why this is red?!)

the tate modern...

Im basic my dissertation around the photographer Diane Arbus, and herd about her work being in exhibition at The Tate, so went along to have a look!

I've seen so many books of her work and images online I wasn't really expecting to feel or find anything different there, but I actually found so many more photos that I hadn't seen and (already feeling like I personally know the woman!) they all seemed to make a much bigger impact seeing them all together. Heres a few of the photo's I took of her work and quick sketches I made while there...

the tate modern

personal research...

from my work last year I really thought I would benefit from seeing current work and regularly going to exhibitions...my summer aim! I have done better than I thought and along with my placement i've decided I definatley want to go into 3d work for my project next year (i seemed to keep falling into it anyway, so hopefully if I actually plan it to, it might work out better!).

in the next few days I will put up the work I came across etc!