Alike my " Go for a rollie?" print, i drew out the plan, aligned it and printed it. I decided on the colours red and orange because i felt they complemented each other and were different from the colours in my original print. Some of the colours didn't come out as clearly due to the letter and its background being too similar and so i filled it in with a white pen. Again, i am really happy with my final print and it turned out exactly how i planned.
On Monday/Tuesday I made a scoliosis spine out of wire to explore my temporary body changes as my spine curved throughout my scoliosis journey (my spine was originally straight, then bent, then straight again after surgery). I wanted to develop this idea further so today I decided to make another scoliosis spine however this one was more abstract and made out of recycled materials instead of wire.
I cut the plastic bottles into vertebrae shapes to make the spine
I then attached then with wire. The wire acted as a spinal chord. This time I wanted to make this light up. Out internal body parts (organs and bones) are always in the dark so this time I made my spine temporarily glow using the Diphenyl oxalate and fluorescent dye solution found in glow sticks.
This is the finished piece - the glow is similar to the glow of Dorothy Crosses Glow in the dark sculptures.
It is even more abstract than my wire spine sculpture however I wanted it to be just representational not realistic. however I couldn't bend and restraighten this spine sculpture to show the temporary changes of my spine during my scoliosis journey as the bottle cut outs kept twisting and getting tangled. This confirms my initial thoughts that the wire was the best media to execute this idea. Although this experiment didn't workout perfectly I was still left with a beautiful image of an abstract plastic spine.
decorative net deconstruction 11/10/2022
(apologies for the image "breathing"/moving in and out of focus)
taking down my textile net (still images of which can be seen here) took only five minutes, and was very easy to do as I am familiar with the simple knots used to construct it. Once finished, I tidied up the textile strips for future learners to make use of.
The background music is Raining Softly (ID 1827) by Lobo Loco, which is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
In Studio 7 today I continued with dry etching intaglio as I wanted to try out some colour to Huggy bear. I added a locket using a 2nd etching. I over wet the paper before which caused it to run a little. I also tried one print allowing some ink to still be on the clear panel to give a background effect. I tried to spread it in a vortex pattern. I don’t think it worked but it was worth a try. It is trial and error and I am learning all the time.
In Bristol between the 4th & the 14th of August 2022, the Daedalum Luminarium by Architects of Air is one of seven luminaria constructed of modular inflatable sections, strung together into a series of tunnels and chambers into which natural sunlight filters through tinted transparent pieces of fabric, creating an ambient environment riotous with colour. This particular luminarium was inspired by sacred architecture, with beautiful traditional patterns, especially in the main dome inspired by the ceiling of the Pantheon in Rome, showing just how beautifully traditional detailing can form the inspiration behind architecture that is nevertheless a unique expression of creativity in its own right. https://www.instagram.com/p/ChQYT9oD8qH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
cant tell you how bad it feels to constantly tell other artists to come to tumblr, because its the last good website that isn't fucked up by spoonfeeding algorithms and AI bullshit and isn't based around meaningless likes
just to watch that all fall apart in the last year or so and especially the last two weeks
there's nowhere good to go anymore for artists.
edit - a lot of people are saying the tags are important so actually, you'll look at my tags.
#please dont delete your accounts because of the AI crap. your art deserves more than being lost like that #if you have a good PC please glaze or nightshade it. if you dont or it doesnt work with your style (like mine) please start watermarking #use a plain-ish font. make it your username. if people can't google what your watermark says and find ur account its not a good watermark #it needs to be central in the image - NOT on the canvas edges - and put it in multiple places if you are compelled #please dont stop posting your art because of this shit. we just have to hope regulations will come slamming down on these shitheads#in the next year or two and you want to have accounts to come back to. the world Needs real art #if we all leave that just makes more room for these scam artists to fill in with their soulless recycled garbage #improvise adapt overcome. it sucks but it is what it is for the moment. safeguard yourself as best you can without making #years of art from thousands of artists lost media. the digital world and art is too temporary to hastily click a Delete button out of spite
I have since decided to take a different direction with my cardboard box; instead of creating a minature, I would like to cast an image of my bedroom into the box. I feel like it would still have the same symbolism as 'box-room' but just a different approach.
I decided this because as I was working on the miniature furniture, it didn't really have the look I wanted. I feel like if I had more time and experience with creating miniatures it would have worked better, but I feel with my limited skills it looked very primary school-ish. I will instead project an image and photograph the results. The phrase "19 years of existence, crammed into a box room" is what made me want to make the miniature but I feel photographing me, holding the box would be more impactful, as if I were holding my life's history in my hands.
Temporary Project - Mush Has a Photo Shoot (10/11/22)
Today I did another stop motion animation, giving temporary life to my inanimate plasticine friend Mush once again . I combined the skills that I learned from the two workshops I did on Monday. I took the gestures (temporary poses) aspect from the 'Me and You' workshop with the studio photography aspect of the 'Camera Work and Lighting Control in the Studio' workshop.
Here's my plan for the animation :
Before I began filming I stuck down any items in the shot that I didn't want Moving with blue tack. This is something that I wanted to improve on from my last stop motion animation
I then dressed Mush up like how we got dressed up for our photoshoot in the workshop. I used recycled materials - plasticine, a plastic bottle cap and a material string - to make his hat and scarf.
This particular idea was inspired by an episode of 'Morph' (by Aardman Animation Studios) I watched on YouTube in which the characters did a photoshoot doing iconic playful poses .
Here's my finished Animation:
I used the lamp to imitate the camera flashlight. During this Animation I experimented/explored different eye, brow and mouth movements. For the 'cheeky pose' I made Mush a second pair of eyes that are looking to his side as he turned around and I opened his mouth for the first time.
My peers have given me feedback saying how they noticed the positive improvement in the flow of the figures in my stop motion animations. They look less static and robotic. Practice makes perfect! (well not perfect, but improvements)
The unfortunate thing about working in community theater is I have to paint over beautiful paintings regularly to save lumber
Or murals that will get split up and painted over after strike
The temporary nature of theater is one of the reasons I love it, all this beautiful art that you can only see if you come for the 3 week run and then its only a memory