week 4

We reflected on master paintings such as Gustave Courbet, Velazquez, Picasso and drawing their paintings in our own personal style. We used an old school projector to project them (in black and white). This was difficult when the sun started coming through the windows ...it made us really look carefully and made all our work more interesting! On this workshop set, I focused on the use of line and texture which I found harder especially on the large scale black one done on the floor, you can tell I spent a lot more time on the painting on the bottom rather than the top one (done in half the time). None of them are yet complete :( Something to do this weekend before my critic next week!!

I am now known as the one who spills yellow ink! It went EVERYWHERE! I tried to use it to my advantage by creating patters with the tissue on the dress while drying it up!

Although this week has been ridiculously busy I still managed to squeeze in a couple of blind drawings at a half hour lunch time concert, which I thought would be relaxing, but as you can see by my drawing it was LOUD and JAZZY! I liked the release of drawing these, making me feel more positive. It's not my best by far although I love the shape of the bass player (and shadow)on the left, would make a cool sculpture and I like the fact the door in background looks like a confused face!

FINALLY the end product of our 3 minute Pulp Fiction! It took us a whole day filming at the flat and at TGIF and then another day for editing. Was great experience though and a lot of fun! There are a lot of continuity mistakes though! Keep your eyes peeled in the toast scene...

Film essay title: Ways in which Danny Boyle portrays the value of money in Millions (2004) and Slum Dog Millionaire (2008).

FILM ESSAY AND PULP FICTION COMPLETE, I FEEL LIKE SUPERMAN

In Photoshop we used the tool gradient (left) on the two technicians Steve and John. We then had to make a centaur - I did it slightly different! It was done quickly so should have merged and erased the horses head better so you can't see the line between them. After class I edited some photos applying the use of gradient and rendering.