Progress video!

A short time-lapse video showing my progress through out this project.

Exhibition Ideas

After looking into the exhibition spaces in the studios, I have been thinking more in depth about my presentation of my final piece. A though we won't be able to display our work in the college I will be having everything set up in  different location (my home as I feel it fits the theme) and having some photographs of set up to go with my portfolio. I plan on having the 3 A4 portraits within black frames (I feel that black would make them stand out more). The portraits will hang above the chair. I want everything to be straight and parallel to each other as to tie in with the geometric nature of the art work and it'll look best that way. Here is a digital drawing that I did of my plan:

Working on my chair!

This turned out to be a fair bit more difficult than I expect but it's getting there.

I feel like the colours have turned out really bright which I'm happy about but the biggest problem that some of the pieces of would weren't holding with just glue, so then I changed to nails but then that wasn't working so I switched to screws so hopefully it'll work out this time!

Collages

I've been working on different collages but using Photoshop rather than cutting up the images and I really like they way that they look.

These are the sketchbook pages depicting this colleges. 

Using apps

I found this app called Visulator where you can create lots of different geometric patterns. I really liked the way they look and it's easy to use and I could use them for backgrounds. They work quite well with the work that I've been making and tie in well with my drawings but I'm not sure if I like the contrast between the digital media and the hand drawn elements.

I like that I can change the colours and patterns. These ones were created using the Triangular option which I like best.

There is another option called Gradulate but I don't like this one as much as it's quite hard to control and I don't think that it has as good an effect. 

Sketchbook pages

Here are some pages to show my progress :)

Who, What, Where Concept

For this project I'm keeping it personal (which seems to be a formula that kinda works for me) so I've been looking at the influencing men of my life: my Grandad, Dad and brother. At first I was looking at creating 3 chairs that represent them, as within our house they have all had/have chairs that were theirs, a static place that they always seemed to be. Where- as I'm more restless and don't have one spot in the house. However from working on it and researching I've decided that I'm making my own chair. Taking my place, although not just in the house, the chair for me can fold away, portable, implying that I cam be restless, move or even leave.
However I'm going to have 3 portraits of them hanging above the chair (when it is set up as an installation) that will have red string tying them to the chairs, to symbolise family ties, that family shouldn't hold you back.

To Vlog or not to Vlog

Originally I was going to vlog most of my progress through out this project as I enjoyed the video classes that we had last term. However it's something that keeps slipping my mind and I tend to only film after an event rather than during so I think I'm just going to make an accumulative video towards the end to sum up what I've done and how I did it. I might have a separate one for my final piece and concept so that it doesn't end up too long. 
I do like documenting my work in this way I think it's an effective way of getting my point across but I do feel kinda awkward when I'm filming, especially when it's in front of different people. So, I think I'm going to continue with it as it will help to build up my confidence and maybe I'll actually be able to create videos as a part of my work or even a final piece once I have more confidence and I've built up my skills.

Portraits

I've been looking into some different ways of making portraits, different styles, colours and medias. I can't decide if I want to include a self portrait or leave it to just my Brother, Dad and Grandad.

Body Casting

This week we learned how to do body cast in Allison's class, which was soooo much fun. Amy and I worked together for this and we did each others hands, they turned out really creepy look because of all the details and the fact they are pale white.

So if you're interested here's how you do it:
Equipment: Alginate, water, vaseline, mod-roc, paint brush, plaster (power) and something to stir with.

• Start by adding 50g of alginate power to every 100ml of water and mix them into a gloopy paste (try not to get any air bubbles in it.
• Pour it on to the hand and make sure to cover the whole thing.
• Then leave it to dry, you'll know it's dry once it's went bouncing and doesn't change shape.
• Once it's dry cover it with a thick layer of mod-roc.
• Once that's dry peel of both the mod-roc and the alginate to revel to mild.
• The block up any gaps or holes where the plaster could leak from (just use more mod-roc for this).
• Mix up some plaster and fill it up (make sure that there is no airs, so tap the mould)!
• Once dry remove from the mould
• Then bask in the glory that is a creepy mould of your own hand!