week 3

Drawing this week consisted 5 hours of staring at the still life below.

I started on an easel with charcoal and this technique made me feel limited. However still managed to change the scale of some items and apply different textures for each object including paper.

I then moved onto ink drawing which I prefer with sticks and paintbrushes and working on the floor :)

I like the composition of this and the subtle changes of the rope between pages but keeping certain continuities such as the mirrors but at the same time very abstract. The black lines are the outline of shadow.

 This week I did a blind drawing on a presentation on string instruments. I used elements of shading with pencil crayons too.

Photo of the week: I took this at half 4 waiting for my train at Bristol Temple Meads. I loved the lighting and the stillness of when I took this. I also like the detail in the empty blocks of apartments. Also the way the lines move and compliment one another by there darkness and colour.

This week we started to plan and film for our assessment next week. We did the film Pulp fiction. We arrived together on wednesday (without a camera) so watched the film and decided what scenes we wanted to do. We then got the camera from Sion Hill, but stupidly left it behind so when it came to 9.00 on Thursday morning we couldn't film straight away!!Back to Dartmouth Avenue got the camera then found out it wasn't even charged... so annoying so we then did more planning, making of signs, setting up scenery while waiting for it to charge! As we were then SO organised we did the filming very quickly a lot of the scenes were done at my flat and then we took a trip to TGIF and did the beginning and last scene there...while enjoying milkshakes :) Because we had lots of preparation time it meant none of us were really stressed just ready to have fun with it!

THE CAST

Jules

Vincent

Mia Wallace

Ringo

Butch

We then took some freeze frames while in TGIF for the last scene.

This week in photo shop we learnt how to make our own panorama so we went outside took several photos then came back in learnt how a panorama (the long way) by creating a new page the right size (multiplying the width by the number of photos) and then adding them on as layers and then cropping and adjusting colors by using levels and color balance. He then showed us how to do it by clicking 'photo merge' under file, automate and it does it better and quicker than you!! This is a cool artist John Law who was an old tutor at the University who did massive panoramas using about 50/60 photos and stitching them together so seamlessly. Here are some attempts of mine (NOT using the automate button!)...they generally got better the more I did!

week 2

Drawing 01.1.11
We started off drawing our faces this week but in no way a traditional self portrait. We were drawing by the sense of touch so on one hand we had charcoal and the other we were touching our faces and hair. We had our eyes closed as well. We did 3.

The 2nd half of the lesson we had to bring in 5 objects with sentimental value. I started off with an inuit bear sculpture made out of soapstone which I got for my 18th. And started drawing that and continued drawing it from small but rotational with pencils to huge pieces of paper on the floor with sticks, paintbrushes and ink.

I also did a bear on a car with a frosty back windscreen!I love this affect but I wish I had drawn the tail better-and not the way a 3 yr old would have!

Here are some more Blind drawings from this week. Pianists had to do demo's this week, different styles etc.

Films I watched this week include the Banksy film Exit Through The Back Door. I also watched Sunrise a 50's czech silent film. For one of my film assignments we had to find a film to rein-act we chose Pulp Fiction so I watched that. And also one of my all time favorites 50's An affair to remember. 

In photoshop this week we learn more about merging images. I generally got better at it the more I did.

Below I re-discovered the cloning tool...

I then learnt how to make words with pictures...honestly cant remember how I did it though!