SO YESTERDAY WAS MY BIRTHDAY!
I'm scared now though, because I'm 19, this is the last year of my teens and my friends keep telling me I'm nearly half way to 40 :/ I'm sorry but what! I feel old! I have no new finished work as yet, but I have started putting my portfolio together, I bought some good quality plastic wallets to present my work in and my folder will have a bit of  a spruce up too, but I don't know what I'm going to do with most of my work that's not going in because it's all so big :/ ideas? I have no storage in my room and I have no space left in the cabins at college unless I want it to get ruined.
I've looked at so many uni's now, and I think I have my top 5. I think. I'm so excited to move out and be independent. I'm even more excited to start the rest of my life doing something I love and would never be without. Art. ♥. I'll miss all my friends of course, and I hope I can get a transfer for my job, because I love H&M.
I have three briefs to do. I have a Graphics one, which is a little silly I must admit. Duster slippers for cats?! HAHA! and "Seven" is the title for art and photography. I need to get started really :/

So this is basically what I've done in foundation...

Well, admittedly it's not all my work. That would be crazy. I have three sketchbooks. Graphics. Photography. Art & Textiles combined. This is just some of the work that's in my space on my wall, there's also my Graphics posters that you might have seen from an earlier post. I've recently become fascinated with lines, evenly spaced creating what I think is something really quite beautiful if I do say so myself. All the lines are hand drawn and not traced so there are a few wobbly parts, but would you really expect perfect lines drawn free hand? The below piece wasn't actually going to turn out like this but I'm so ruddy glad it did! I dripped coffee on the paper, but the drips turned out slanted because I did it whilst the canvas was vertical on a washing line we have in our cabin to dry our work on. But oh my god, look what I just found! http://bumbumbum.me/2010/04/21/heike-weber-installations/

This is gorgeous!

Abstract ink printing and hand drawn lines

Watercolour, leaving negative spaces

 The below piece was one of the first things we did with Shaun, our art teacher/head of department. It was a group exercise. One person starts with pencil, charcoal and then pen, layered up to create different details and textures. The charcoal works best on this one.

This is Emma. Who was on my art foundation but is sadly no longer with us. I don't normally draw but I thought I'd do this for Emma, in memory of her and to practice my skills a bit more. Some people have given me a few comments on it in college, but, well done me for doing something other than painting and sculpting!

This is my work space within the cabin, we had to present our work that we've done so far, you can't really see it that well but there is a maquette hanging from the ceiling on the right hand side and some 3D stuff on my table and a paper maquette on the wall above my table. So far I have done, mono printing, lino printing, printing with ink (pink piece, top left), painting with acrylics, painting with watercolour, drawing with charcoal, graphite pencil, HB pencil, pen, clay sculpting, made a hat, and used an empty bottle filled with strips of paper that say "binge" repeated, sculpted with wire and string, sculpted with paper, sellotape, string, foil and tree branches to make a tree, I've written a short story, made a textile postcard and used Photoshop. So far so good I think on the whole experimenting with different medias.



MY MANIFESTO

For me, as an artist, art should be exciting and should be able to inspire and spark something in a person’s mind and imagination. My work tends to be based around 3D design as I aspire to be a stage designer. My work has always been abstract and I find it’s something that most people initially reject as “art”, but I think if abstraction is given a chance it can be personally related to, as everybody interprets art in a different way, as no two minds think exactly alike.


My ideas for my artwork mainly spark from my everyday experiences, from sculptures I see in galleries to architecture that surrounds me, photographs and quotes I find online, photography has even influenced the way I see things. The list is endless but essentially everything I see, do, touch and hear influences the way I interpret things and comes across in my final piece of work.


When it comes down to my creative process, I have always aimed for one thing in particular. If I can make just one person think “wow” or influence them in some way shape or form then I will feel content and satisfied and this is what drives me to create more and more work. When I saw Henry VIII at the Manchester Royal Exchange theatre, the set utterly blew me away. The way it was so simple yet so powerful, and the way this simple set was adjusted and transformed throughout the play was so clever. Without this, the performance would not have been the same. Ingenious creations like this are what influence me.


Artists that have inspired me over recent years and have grown to become two of my favourite artists are Robert Rauschenberg and Michael Bosanko. I love how Rauschenberg’s paintings are an assortment of found objects boldly displayed against a bespattered background. What I like about Bosanko’s work is that it’s so cleverly composed and to me seems almost dream like, with his use of vivid colours against the dark nights sky are just enchanting.

http://google.co.uk

http://www.michaelbosanko.com/portfolio106527.html


Doing photography has developed my artistic eye and I always try and see things in their best composition. Being brought up in a major city, most people actually overlook a lot of the architecture of the buildings that surround them. I like to be able to look above eye level and see a completely different side to what surrounds me, which most people will never take notice of, I find this fascinating and almost like an undiscovered secret of my own.


Without art, my life would be completely different. As a person I can change my mind frequently but one thing I have always been sure of is what I want to always include in my life and what kind of career I want in the future, and it’s an artistic one. My ultimate dream is to be a stage designer for theatres and with my passion and drive, I believe I can make this happen.

Before I begin. Why is the quality of photographs so ruddy horrendous on Blogger?!

 This is "The Tree" my group made in art foundation, the aim was to "activate" your space so my group eventually decided to make a tree made purely out of newspaper, sugar paper, masking tape, string and real branches that had fallen off the tree's outside. The end product was when we blacked out the entire room, placed one dulled and yellowed light at the base of the tree creating gorgeous shadows and shapes on the ceiling and walls. We hung maquettes from the branches and net material that was hard to see from the ceiling so when you walked around the tree they brushed your shoulders and made you shiver. We got great comments from the teachers and the sixth form students saying things like "I can't wait to start Art Foundation". It made us all feel so much better. This was also one of the last things our friend and fellow student Emma & hearts; helped us with. This is in memory of her. Always and forever.

This is a photograph I took when in Barcelona. My friend missed her mum and was always on the phone to her, and so the inspiration of "the telephone" came about. I loved how the shadow on the wall makes the stone brighter. I also love the shade of blue on the phone box, feeling almost "retro" if you will.

 

I took photography at A-level and was experimenting with shutter speeds with my friend Lauren and this is one of the products of our time flashing lights and jumping about in front of the lens in my bedroom. By flashing a light of and on in different poses we were able to capture faces and body parts in one still image, but my having a long shutter speed we were able to include light trials, creating a layered image without editing.

This is something we started doing in Art Foundation, I'd done loads of this at A-level so I produced a fair few, but this is one of my favourites. I might upload the series I made later on, I'm not too sure yet. I get a circus feel from this image and by lowering the opacity it isn't so harsh on the eye and seems softer behind all the rust and vivid colours. Unfortunately I find that Blogger is a let down on the quality side for images. This is a lot sharper.

Art Foundation - Graphics.

Grunge, Grime & Glamour club night art work

Hand drawn & Photoshop

Art Foundation - Graphics.
Grunge, Grime & Glamour club night advertising poster.
Hand drawn & Photoshop