London drawings

drawing collage from London photos

bigger single drawing of the tube rails. focus on line and tone - pencil, compressed charcoal, white paint and soft pastels.

Photos from London that have influenced my printmaking and drawing studio work

Mono-printing

mark making with ends of paint brushes, fingers and palette knifes:

Life Drawing

                                          3rd life drawing session on 17th October 2013

2nd life drawing session on 10th October 2013

1st life drawing session on 3rd October 2013

Studio space presentation

with Kate Smith, Anna McCone and Matthew Vaughan.

The word ‘Studio’ is Italian meaning: an artist’s workplace, a photographer’s studio OR a place where art is taught or studied

Role of a Studio? A place to be creative, to bounce ideas off each other –inspiration from peers/

Why artist’s need studios, the use differs with the different mediums:

       Dance – to practice

       Painting/printmaking – experimenting

       Music – practice, write

       Photographer – take photos, experiment

Have you ever visited another artist’s studio, other than the ones a university? Yes, at the 2 Queens Gallery – rent is: £65 p/c/m full space OR £35 p/c/m half space.  

What was it like? Mostly messy, lots of work everywhere, you could tell that the artists spent a lot of their time in there.

What do you think you should use your studio for at DMU? Experimenting, pin up work, talk through ideas with peers – bounce ideas off each other.

Considerations within the studio space? Basic health & safety, respect each other’s space, work and way off working.

Pitfalls of shared studios? People stealing ideas or materials/equipment, others could be disrespectful/messy not consider other’s feelings/space

Studio are used differently by different artists? Photographer’s studio – edit/take photos. Music studios – think up songs/write them, record them.

Memories

A series of Photos showing time passing, objects of my childhood that I have a memory of but not a strong

one - the more faded the photo the less I can remember of the memory. I shot these on a white background 

so that the object was the only focus.

Slinkachu Research

Slinkachu

He photographs ‘little people’ in our big world, so the scale is all out of proportion and when he’s finished he leaves the scene that he created in the street to puzzle the people that pass by. He is a London based artist but travels all over the world with his work. He makes small street based installations and photographs them from far away and close up. You could contrast him with Banksy, who also does street work, but you could easily walk straight past Slinkachu’s work and not realise its even there – where as Banksy’s work is pretty hard to miss. 

Inspired by Slinkachu's 'Little People' Series

I decided to look at Slinkachu for the first project, I liked his use of scale and humour. I didn't have access to any form of small model people to take the photos with. The nearest I could find was the green army men off Toy Story and that was online, they wouldn't have arrived in time. So I decided to make little people out of blu-tack and painted them, as a start while waiting for the army men. 

What is Art Presentation

'What is Art?' presentation by Louise Child and Anna McCone: