Week 4

This week I discovered this website so amazing. If you like art you will LOVE this art project google you have to look at it sad though as I think art galleries will suffer because of it.

This week with my art I have though of an idea I am happy to show in the exhibition. Still using the idea of you are here. It all started with the idea of the silhouettes from last week at the Hulbourne museum and then as we were taking photos I found faces in the rock shapes too. So I thought it was a fairly strong theme to continue with and slowly the more I drew rocks the more the faces would appear.

I then realized that my faces started to look like countries and I like how that linked into the brief so I then started drawing like 12 popular countries and I thought in the exhibition it would look cool if I pinned them to the wall and left a box of see through pins on the floor for people to put on where they have been.

My research then extended into watching a great show called Kirstie Allsopp's Hand Made Britain and I got the idea of getting lots of b&w print outs of bath and cut them into the shapes of countries I had drawn so far but with the extended meaning its where I live, but this is where I have been a link between the past and present.

I think I may show both of these two pieces of art simultaneously, side by side. I need to see the space first, before I can start visualizing what it will look like.

I also went to London for the weekend and went down Cork Street. Had lots of fantastic contemporary art and one gallery even gave me free old catalogues to help me with my research.

I also visited the Royal Academy and to the gallery behind the Royal Academy (directly opposite Abercrombie and Fitch not sure what it is called)

On Sunday morning I went to Whitecube Gallery to find it was closed and then I went around the corner to find a Waterstones and did some reallly really great research in there and took lots of photos of books there. I also looked out for cool packaging and design of books, as Mandy suggested it.

homeless man sleeping in Waterstone's with the book mens fashion on his chair!

Gerhard Richter drawing with his own contraption of a power drill pencill.

Week 3

BLIND DRAWINGS.

 

HULBOURNE VISIT.

This week has been a lot of fun I find I only really did much art on the monday morning when we had our group gallery visit to Holburne Museum. It was surprisingly fun. I thought it would be filled with just china and spoons, and it was but the way it was displayed made it worth while and enjoyable. I particularly enjoyed the cupboards you can open which are mainly for kids education purposes but actually all of us BACA students leanrt a whole lot from them.

The most enjoyable part of the museum for me was the 'make your own silhouette'. 

1. Put on a wig or hat of your fancy

2. Sit in a booth 

3. Turn on the light 

4. Get a friend to put a piece of paper on the outside of the booth in the glass window

5. Get them to tell you to adjust your position so you fit on the paper

6. Take a picture

Later on in the day we bumped into an artist along the canal who made lions and other structures predominately made out of old fence posts.

He let me sit on one of the lions :)

Picturesque canal scene

Week 2

So in my 2nd week I was ill so missed out on our trip to Corsham Court. I had sung a concert their last year and loved it so would have of enjoyed visiting it again with the full tour and history of the place. I did however get some art in this week. During my performance classes I sat and drew (as usual) I was a bit embarrassed to put them on my music journal as my teacher who was playing also marks it but luckily he liked them!