Roundabouts - Fine Art - Photos

Today I caught up with the Fine Art pathway where we tasked with appropriating, manipulate and alter 'found' images. We could do this by obscuring the photographs with paint or collaging them together to create new combined images.

Before we started editing the photos we look at the works of Gerhard Richter, Robert Rauschenberg (who both edited found images using paint and mixed media techniques) and John Stezaker (conceptual artist who combined images to create new).

These are just a few of the photographs I edited inspired by the artists using the medias of paint and varnish and collage. 

 I admire the the way the varnish and the paint have reacted with each other on the photographs to create textures and patterns. 

I think I will experiment with the first image shown to create a pattern for a fabric because the printed textures and pattern would transpire well onto the fabric. 

The colour pallet I have used have a Autumn ambiance that would suit a winter/fall fashion collection.

Roundabouts - Textiles and Fashion - Manutex Printing

In the forth roundabout session we attended the option Textiles and Fashion. In this session we experimented with mark marking in the form of manutex printing; a form of pattern printing that can only be printed once, unlike most printing making.

When manutex printing you draw your chosen image or pattern onto the silkscreen and pull it through the screen using a print paste on to material. 

Rather then print onto cartridge paper I experimented with appropriating fashion magazine images. This wasn't very successful because the paper had been printed on previously meaning that the ink didn't soak in. 

Roundabouts - 3D - Wire Structures

This morning we spent some time creating wire structures and drawings using the the spot wielding machine. The outcome of the task was to reproduce a drawing of a primary photographs, objects or drawings.

I selected the paper origami dress I constructed in a past exercise for my inspiration. Looking at a small area of the front bodice I experimented in reproduce the folds into 2D wire drawing. 

To develop the wire drawing example further I created a collage using the sample to loosely show the idea of how wire could be used as a garment material.

Roundabouts - Photography - Light Painting

This afternoon the group were given the task to create a selection of photography images expiring the technique of painting with light. 

After the group session the photos were sadly lost. 

However, last year I completed the UAL Diploma in Photography as a night course where were experimented with this technique so I am able to show past work I have produced. 

For the first image I experimented with the a static light and a moving model to create an abstract laying effect that gave the image a eerie, sinister aesthetic. 




In the second image I have use a traditional technique where the light source moves rather the the model. However I used a additional light source to cast a shadow on the face to add to the atheistic. 

Roundabouts - Media - Scratch Film

This morning we started the roundabouts where we try each examples of work that can be made in each different pathway.

This morning we began with the Media pathway, where we created a scratch film.

The group were shown examples of scratch films from the early to mid 20th century such as:

Stan Brakhage's Mothlight 

Len Lye's Kaleidoscope 

After viewing the films we were tasked with making our own version. Each person in the group were given four seconds worth of 16mm film.

For my four seconds I worked straight onto the film using permanent markers in a imprecise manner to give a contrast to the more structured seconds that my piers created.