New Project for level 2

Right, i have been rummaging through my old sketchbooks and found my 2d-3d stuff from foundation. In which, i took pics andsketchs of various foliage and bits and bobs like scrap metal, fences etc. Using these things i messed about with texture,colour, negative space and form. Some of the results of i overlayed and turned into something else
Im going to start pushing these  key points as far as i can and see what happens. May start messing with photograms and pryography!Fun stuff :D

last one finished

this one is aout religious intolerences

Cant believe im finally done.now im going to start a project that i want to do (with possible links in what i did in my foundation course...
watch this space...(cliche)

think i have one left now

This one is about a lack of readily available healthcare

the one bove is about lack of council houses availble for younger people andthe amount of immigrants who have fancy cars in this country

close

 Two more done. Got the materials for one more.waiting on other 2.Getting there

 

 

This participant just generally hated the world

This one is about the pressure put on women about there appearance

 

the participant of this one didnt like how there wernt enough jammy dodgers being delivered to his home and how he'd like to land on his feet like a cat as he is fed up of falling over

This one is about how when the soldiers come home from war,the war is over, but there are still citizens of  the country at war who are sufferig

this is about corrupted parliment

how unsigned music isnt taken seriously

how tv programmes are boring and how people should make their own tv programme which will then be voted for and turned into a series

about how there are laws everywhere and how they stop you doing what you want to do

This are the ones ive done since las post, got 4 to do and 1 to finish as soon as ebay hurries up.going to do a write up tomorrow then thats most of the work done.so sick of this project, i really am...

next step

for some reason it wouldnt let me type after the images on the revious post so ill make a new one.

Im aiming to do 2 tomorrow and 2 on sunday,i need some materials to do the few im aiming to do on monday so hopefully i can do those then.Any remaining im waiting on other people so unil they get back to me ill start my write up in my sketchbook
. Im aiming to finishing my friday 20th august so i can have a good month to do what i want to do instead of this uni stuff.
 going to have a bit of chillout time now...until next blog...

Update on summer project for uni

been well ove a week(nearly two?) since my last blog. So far i have managed to get 9 out of 20 dreamcatcher made.I have spent a fortune at hobby craft and have thus far burnt my brain out.Im on an afternoon off cause i cant physically do anymore;im so mentally and physically drained


here are the dreamcatchers thus far:

This participant was against women having multiple children for the reason of having extra benefit

 

Against people mugging people for their own gain

against stereotyping

Against animal cruelty

How soldiers can escape war even though they have been in it but the citizens of where the war took place still suffer

How celebrities moan despite having everything and third world countries just have to get on with their lives

Wanting world peace

Wanting a greener planet and a clea enviorment

 

About being sick of the hecticness of modern society and just wanting time to relax and be calm

still waiting

why do people find it so difficult to put something in an envelope and go to the post ffice.been at least over a week now and still nothing >:(

Waiting

wel... that took alot less time than i thought it would. Made 12/20 of them in less than 10 mins, did all of them in 20. :)
 so now all i have to do is wait until my materials get here so can start making. I think once i get into it it wont take me hardly any time to make them all.Its the write up after which will bethe pain but i can plough through it...Staying positie still with this. I WILL have some time to myself this summer, be it only for a day or whatever

for now ill drink this cold cup of coffee ive forgotten about :/ 

materials

Not started uni work yet cause im waiting upon materials.bloody internet folk not being bothered to get their backside to the post office...tomorrow though im going to try and make my frames in preperation,then at least im doing something constructive
want to be able to have  a couple weeks to myself in which i can do some work i actually want to do and maybe have a possibility of being proud of

Got it all planned out

actually wrote out a to do list for me to crack on with and get this uni stuff sorted.at a guess itll take me a week and a half :) I bet something will cause me problems though...

got 3/4 books today, the Kalevala, The Poetic Edda, and Ecoshamanism by James Endredy. Waiting on a 2nd  Endredy book; Earthwalks.
Cant wait to read them,prob start with the Kalevala,let you know how that goes :)

front cover of Kalevala

Out the way

Ive decided to make a start on my uni work as soon as i get last recording today. Im sick of it haunting my mind, want it over and done with and gone
Still been listening to that wardruna playlist. Actually quite inspirational

hope my books come today...

something beautiful...

... that i stumbled across
http://www.wardruna.com/musicplayer/index.html

Positives

Right,I have 19/20 interviews done.wont take long to get the last one.then if i have a day where i just finish off explaining things in my sketchbook then take a day n eeach piece. If i start that monday. ill finish it by the 13th of august.Then i can spend the monday after that evaluating and wha have you. Then ill have a good month to do some of my own work. 2 and a half weeks of crap first bu once its over with its done.then i dont have to care about it till i go back
Also joined a modelling site as a photographer so hopefully ill get some comissions through that
Considering applyingfor an internship in something aswel at some point to get my experiance up for a job after uni.Still prob working towards lecturer as my fall back plan but do some film work where i can
Got to keep my chin up...

.Some awe-inspiring pictures of iceland i found. So beautiful,i will go there one day

pfft

So far i have just done what uni is conditioning me to do without realising. I have explained all my work leaving no room for the viewers thought.
I think uni is just there to brain wash you into being like everyone else. Its hard to seperate our own work and what you want to do when you constantly have some mini tutor in your head reminding you why everything you do is terrible. Thats what they expect off you by the ed of the course. To just accecpt tthis is what art is not how you see it which is such bullshit. In truth, i hate all the contemporary crap they shove down your throat and im esspeccially sick of hearing about Cindy Sherman and that god damn urinal thing by duchamp.
I like pieces that actually look like theyve required talent and consideration to make. Yes i can appreciate the ideas, thats this represents this and that but i wouldnt have it in my house as an artwork!!!
I want to create my own world, just zone out, do it and not care who thinks its crap or not. I need to practise seperating the world i put up with to get my degree and the world i want to be involved with....

Making Money

I've tried to set up a photography business to start my career off. Its going extemly slow
Ive had 2 shoots since starting the idea. But had many oppurtunites to take pictures for my uni work...as always seems the case

In a recent walk i did in church stretton i Made some nice photographs im prous off whichi could use for a future project i guess. But the deeper part of me just wants to create out of love not for assessment

To show one, but im not posting anymore just yet....

Current work

In my past work i have tried to get people t understand my way of thinking, not convert to it just to nderstand. Alas, it appears no-one cares for ancestory and spirituality. So with the work im undergo-ing im trying to find out what other people like and dislike in the world. Ive been interviewing people trying to get my numbers up to 20.All going well i shall complete that today. I shall then go on to make an individual piece for each one of these people and then push it to make a big ger piece which incorporates them all.Given the answers i have at the moment this is going to be hard, but what dont kill me makes me stronger...

If only i had confidence to paint and draw. Having it obliterated in my foundation degree. I wish to work in film, doing some sort of design for the characters or set. But alas thatll never be. I hate the institution for supressing my creativity but i have decided to just skecth occcassionally for hobby if nothing else and do work im not overly interested in just to get my degree. That way when it is ripped apart im not hurt so much and i may be able to keep some of my confidence

The above images are works by other artists i have copied to practise shaind etc. Namely John Howe, Alan Lee and i dont know the name of the other one but the painting is called Caliban.

This is the first of many life drawings i did. How i detest it. I have not a problem, one afternoon a week, but all day for weeks on end gets frustrating especcially when everything you do, no matter how hard you try gets torn apart by some grumpy old arse of  atutor. Yes constructive criticism, but forgive me for not being able to find the constructive side to "You cant draw at all i dont think this is your forte"I kid you not, a teacher of higher education!you'd expect  better wouldnt you?

This is my first watercolor aka my a level exam piece. I know its terrible

Due to my reluctance to draw my own face in a practise session of proportions ready for life drawing, i drew the vocalist from Turisas,Mathias Nygard in charcoal which i think came out ok. :)

...well it came out better than my recent god awful tribute to my favourite keyboard player Mustiis (ex)Dimmu Borgir :(

Backdating

I think I shall start this blog with a backdate to my University work. If the above video actually works, it shows my work from my lvl 1 up to now pieces along with the ideas and artists that inspired them.

However, I believe my work i did for my foundation degree was better; both for the eye and my own satifaction.

 Above are 3 photographs involved with the end of year exhibition. These were displayed in their own room along side 3 six foot x 2 foot canvases which represented the moon, fireflies and the earth. There was also a video of  a man (namely my bf) which showed lacerations slowly appearing on his back. All this was representative of a dream i had where the was a man sitting by a river, motionless, covered in scars. Insects flew around him in the moonlight. I tried to capture all of this

In earlier work in my foundation year, I successfully made m first oil painting. I drew some still life from an allotment and tookphotographs. I zoomed in on a section of plant which i sketched, photocopied the sketch onto assetate, photocopied the layered asetate over a photograph and painted from it. It proved quite successsful. I shall try to find a picture and post at a later date.

Recently, I had to go to a workshop at uni which would enable me to use their equipment, health and safety and all that. The one i am amentioning in particular is the metal forging workshop,(learning how to craft and scuplt metal using a forge).This rekindled up my fascination which the forge i had before university. From when i was young and watching documentaries in awe at the beautiful blades created in them to the time where i was learning first hand off a blacksmith at a re-enactmen show i was involved in where i made my first knife.
I cant describe enough how i miss the re-enactment. That portal to the past and the accessabilty to the old ways...Curse this modern society with his hectic chaos that seperates me from what i love