Life Model Photographs

My class was given the amazing opportunity of photographing our LifeModel. This is the kind of opportunity you really can't pass up on as it's so rare so I jumped at the chance! The photos were required to be simple, close ups, black and white and above all artistic. 

It's kind of nerve-racking at first but then you get used to it, and it becomes as simple as photographing a bowl of fruit, except this bowl of fruit will listen and move as you ask her too. Interactive bowls of fruit are definetly the best kind...

Anyway here are the photos! I'm in love with studio photography and editing on Lightroom thanks to this, and working with a model in such unusual and sensitive circumstances can only be of help when I want to go into fashion! Oh, and not forgetting I've got my first university interview coming up, soo nervous!

Paper sculpture setup photos

To start putting my portfolio together I set up a mini studio to start taking photos of some of my sculptures in. I can't very well take them all in so some photos on a camera is the more intelligent way of going about this!

They were taken with a Nikon D3000, A somewhat out of date DSLR but still brilliant non-the-less. It gave me a chance to try it out before I get my one this Christmas!

Enjoy =]

Art Foundation - Concept Project - Instabox

I'm sure you are all very aware with the craze of Instagram that is taking over social networking sites everywhere with inventive posts of beautifully sepia-coloured food, shoes, coffee and railings. Wheras most people rave about it, I find it simply funny, and have based my concept project of virtual/reality on making a mockery of this application. And ever so slightly one of my teachers inane use of it.

My initial aim was to create 3D box versions of typical Instragram photos complete with filter, boarder and tags. Our work had to bring something from the virtual world into the real world and then post it back online for all to see. However, I soon came across problems such as painting a filter on plastic and getting it to look remotly Instagram-y. And so in response to this I decided to bring the box to the enviroment I was recreating instead of trying to do a miniture version of the area in the box. It isn't the most well made thing in the world, but it's all about the idea behind it not the final piece.

I am still yet to add more to this as I am due to go on a trip to Liverpool. Here I can perfectly recreate an image my teacher has taken (tags and all) by going to the place in which it was took and putting the filter over it, I will then leave it there for people to look at (most likely wonder what on earth it is) and then realise quite how silly this whole concept of taking photos of cups, food and shutters is. 

No offence is intended, all a bit of fun, I sincerely hope my teacher doesn't kill me, or I get kicked out of the exhibition in which I plan to add this filter too...maybe I'll just take a quick photo of it.

I wanted to take photos of the boxes via Instagram...but we don't all have swanky Iphones and Androids. Conformists.

The photo I chose to recreate.

It looked much better in person I promise. The idea of leaving your art to become part of the landscape is really interesting!

A second photo I chose to recreate, a close up of artwork in the 2012 Liverpool Biennial.

I constructed another box and put it over the artists work. Think of it as an unwilling colaboration. I made sure not to damage the artists actual work!  I left it up for all to see in the Biennial, now many 18 year old art students can say they have their work up there though.

I do hope the artist wasn't upset.

Art Foundation - Paper Project

And so I begin the Art Foundation! It's been so long since my last post, but I had a really good summer, got a bit of art done, but not enough to upload sadly. Anyway my first project is as uninspiring as first projects usually are - the paper project. As a class we have just been manipulating paper to create sculptures and interesting surfaces and then drawing in various medias from this. 

This is the introductory period, we do six projects, all one week long until we then specialise in our chosen area and develop one project further. 

Here are some images of little things I've put together for this project. :) (The drawings arn't the best I know they are suppost to be messy and abstract...I think)

Fmp (again)

This is the last post for my final major project as I have now finished college! Although I have to say I miss being a BTEC student already, theres something quite good about being the best in what you do in your year simply because you're the only people doing it. You almost feel like you're ahead of other people because you've had SO much more experience and your projects are much more detailed then a full on a-level student. I'm going to miss that in the foundation course next year. Either way i've still got the skills behind me, I just hope the teachers don't treat me like I know nothing because 90% of the people on the course will have never done a full time art course before when it's all i've been doing for two years. 

Regardless here is some photos of one of my dresses and my jacket I made for my final project, These are taken on my (image quality chalenged) camera and are simply the only images I have as I don't have access to the ones taken on the college camera (bar two) but you can still get the feel of the garment and the photoshoot with these bad quality photgraphs. What a shame they arn't better.

This one is quite obviously better quality as it wasn't on my poor little camera. 

The next images are of my exhibition space, I felt it was so important to convey the lifestyle my project was based on as appose to just being another display that would not stand out in a room with so many other peoples work. To make the viewer feel as though they were in this London office enviroment, and that it could even be theirs one day, I used as many realistic props until it was almost cluttered, which hopefully people didn't feel it was overpowering. There was the slight problem of my work not standing out but if they were to be more prominent it would complely loose the point of getting across this scene of somebodys life and people would just think "Why is that in this office?" I wanted my garments to be as much a part of contributing to this look as the files on the desk (hence why my jacket it strewn across the chair and the dress is in a drycleaning bag) against the plan my other dress was on the mannequin, I guess compromises have to me made when you have demanding teachers.

P.S. I am so sorry about the length of this post. AND I GOT THE HIGHEST GRADE POSSIBLE D*D*D* (Distinction starred! equivalent to three A*s not 3 D's as many people first think)

Final illustrations for FMP

I've finally managed to get all my hand and graphic illustrations done for my FMP, I'm not entierly sure if they are right of not, either way at least they are done. I've been so busy with all my work lately I just hope I get a good grade at the end of it all. 

The first is simply a concept garment design whereas the next two were designs I scanned into the computer from my folders, I altered the contrast so now they look really basic  which is a let down, but I only scanned them in because I want them to be in my exhibition without taking them out and disrupting the "flow" of my folder. 

The last ones are just general illustrations, one is of Freja-Beha-Erichsen, becuase nothing says androgynous and quite like her, and I find she really relates to my project and the combination of mens and womens fabrics and structures. The other is simply because it was fun to draw.

All the drawings are either done with fineliner and biro and then scanned in, or on GIMP with my bamoo graphics tablet, both of which are my usual medias.

Havn't really got much else to say except sorry for the lack of posts, I'll be setting up my exhibition on monday so I'll put some photographs of that up soon. :)