Roundabout activities- week 2

Tuesday 18th September 2012
Photography- morning
Drawing with light
This morning we went in to the photography pathway to explore and have a taster of what photography is like, me and Megan got stuck in we explored any different methods on how we could make our photos more interesting. With drawing with light you have a long exposure, which allows your image to take im more light and movement we set ours to 30 seconds.

Textiles- afternoon
UAL
Objective:-
To create a series of experimental drawing samples using a range of papers. Your focus should consider surface and textures.

Consider:-
line- straight, curved, broken, organic, crisp, thick thin, continuous
Texture- smooth, eroded, flat, varied, rough, opaque, transparent, gritty, sleek
Colour- blended, solid, broken, greyed, dusty, bright, subdued, layers

Here is part of my work which I produced.

Then when I had produced a background by testing and experimenting with the protein dyes I ripped it up and used it with many other pieces of material to make a collage. From that I drew umbrellas on to it from the overhead projector to get some unusual shapes. On top I drew in bold with conte crayon Darwen tower as I looked at a painting done at Blackburn museum. Which gave me an end product for the mean time for next time were I can stitch over the conte crayon to make the tower stand out better.

The work below is simular to Paddy hartleys work, also I looked at Alice Kettles work.

Pathways -All

Thursday 13th September 2012

• I went in to pathways today to explore the ideas and what type of ways I can be pushing my work forward in to, by developing further the pieces of artwork chosen at the trip to Blackburn Museum.
• Spoke to Jo Conlon today to see were I was starting my work from, from the ways I have already experianced.  Between us and the pieces of artwork I chose at Blackburn Museum we decided to chose the darwen tower painting with the new top on it.
• So I went away and found several artists in many pathways in which I could take future and influence in my work. Also made a list of ideas on what I could do with the painting later on in my work.



1st Steve Pickles Lecture 2012

A few groups today had a lecture in the Victoria building, showing a slide show presented by Steve Pickles.
I was present but due to feeling really under the weather, I wasnt able to take notes. I apologied to Steve after the lecture and ask if would very kindly send me the slideshow which was shown. He very kindly let me have it:

Roundable Activity- Week 1

Tuesday 11th September 2012
Roundabout Activities
Media- Morning
Artists- Len Lye 1935
           -Stan Brakhage 1963
film scratching
24 screens per second shown in film




Len Lye - Kaleidoscope Biguine D'amour  print Dufay colour
Len Lye- kaleidoscope 1935 dufay colour

Stan Brakhage- mothlight.
- killed moths from the light which showed the video, so used the moth wings to make a very effective detailed video of moth wings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaGh0D2NXCA

In our roundable activities today I did media for three ours in the morning we made a film but drawing and scratching in to it to experiment with textures and looks.

Here is the layout of my strip of film
1-4 Gen in blue                           
5-9 orange finger print smudge
10-15 green background dark green on top
16-46 blue dot gradually forming a swirl
47-49 red smudge
50-74 multicoloured lines
75-99 flshing finger prints
100-101 blanc
102-114 red smudge
115-118 blue and black checked
119-136 flick shots of guy jumping over heardles                                 
137-142 2.31 seconds written on                                                                        
142-154 colour with colour written on
155-160 by genna written on
161-220 colour with experimentation on

Fine Art- Afternoon

Gerhard Richtar artist
- using a squiggy to drag paint over an image or a piece of text to discise or change an image.
- repeat this method several times with my own images
-collect some for collage for next time to develop my work with the influence of Gerhard Richtar in to my work
- Also another artist who does simular work - Robert Rauschenberg.

Bibliography

Artists which I research and reference:

1. Len Lye- kaleidoscope 1935 dufay colour
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaGh0D2NXCA

Artwork from Blackburn Museum 2012

Our foundation course looked through current years sketchbooks to see what type of work has been produced before and how to approach the course in general.
With the work just shown after work, we visited Blackburn museum to study three or more pieces of artwork, to reflect on such as: drawing, photos, emotion, video, film etc.
I chose three very different pieces of artwork:
-Horses,   George Cole    Presented by Miss Stock 1924
-The end of the butterfly chase    E.A.Hornel    Presented by John Duckworth Esq 1912
- Darwen Tower
- Alto Rhapsody  Ronald William Webb
- Hesperus William Linnell purchase 1905  When Hesperus calls to fold the flocks of men

See Blackburn Museum page above for more about the trip to Blackburn Museum

Lecture by Richard Cross 2012

On Wednesday 5th September 2012, us as a group all got stuck in and had a talk about many things then in the afternoon we split in two group as we are a very large course and had a lecture by Richard Cross all about free art.
Free art
- Blackurn and Manchester Art Gallery
- Withworth Art Gallery
- Liverpool Tate
- Walker Art Gallery
- Artists
  -Lucien Fraud
  -Peter Doig
  -Francis Bacon

After that we swopped over we went in to media to watch the process in making studio videoing, it was something very different and looked simple to make but the video looks very difficult and effective.
 

Part 1 Experimentation

Part 1 will be including:
-Drawing Qualification
-Blackburn Museum
-Dolphin Holmes
-Walker Art Gallery
-Roundabout Activities;
      .Fine Art
      .Media
      .Photography
      .Textiles
      .3D
      .Graphics
      .Printmaking
I started the Foundation University of Arts London course on Tuesday 4th September 2012. We had a meeting to introduce us to the course and staff who will be running it, and what they specialise in. We were all handed booklets and timetables letting us know what we are doing throughout the year. This gave us a students a good impression of the course.
Then we had a wonder around the freshers fair in the University Centre. But we were then suppose to go for a lecture but with some arrangement issues, the lecture room was already booked so we were able to go home. Which wasnt very good as we cant just solve things if its not been arranged properly, to go home.

The Beginning

Here is the start of working towards a Foundation University of Arts London in Media at level 4.