Perou - Dirty Sexy Things

Perou is a photographer that last year made the programme 'Dirty sexy things' for Channel 4, he is a well known fashion photographer and the programme was a fantastic look in to his hectic life. These two photographs are my favourites from the entire show the colours are striking and would stand out in any magazine.

Photographers Gallery - The World In London

http://www.theworldinlondon.org.uk/

CHAD - Noh Ali Abakar Hassan

Photographer: Kate Peters

I came to London as a refugee and lived in Hackney. My first memory of coming here is seeing Trafalgar Square. I like to go out on the weekends and I think I'm the kind of person who likes to live amongst many different cultures. I've made a lot of friends and like London, and my new life here, very much

The colour contrast in this is brilliant the man really stands out against all the greenery. Its also a very typical British wood and to have him standing there its looks alien to him compared to his native landscape.

COOK ISLANDS - India Dane Ngatama May

Photographer: Charlotte Player

"My Dad built our house, and it was one room, with a showeroom with no roof, and a toilet that was joined onto the house, but sort of outside, and then as I grew up the house slowly got extended."

The focus in this is very odd as her arm is the sharpest in the image, however her face isnt completely out of focus so it just looks as though she has moved which gives a nice effect.

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Catherine Teya

Photographer: Anastasia Taylor-Lind

"Because I'm very busy I don't really have the time to enjoy myself very much and I don't go out so much, but what I like really is just the freedom – London is so big and you can do so many things."

The still woman infront of the moving bus creates a fantastic image as it create a definte seperation of the background to the foreground. As well as the this the double decker bus resembles London relating back to the website.

FRANCE - Jessy Burrow

Photographer: Hayley Louisa Brown

"The only place you can study fashion is in London because there are so many opportunities for working with disigners, little projects, photographers..."


The collage of images works very well her showing the woman from many different points of view it looks like a fashion spread from a magazine. Mainly I like the editinf as it gives a very vintage effect wit hthe smokey fading pages and foggy images.

iPad Life Drawing

We watched a video on Youtube that was created using an iPad to create an animation to give us an idea of what we could actually do with and ipad.

Undivided - Blush ft Snoop Dogg

Here is some of my work

Fine Art - Day 2

We got more practical on the second day of fine art and began to use many materials to make print the shapes of objects on to paper, we also used projectors to be able to colour in shadows. 

Fine Art - Day 1

In the introduction to Fine Art we began to look a metaphors and the potential behind them to communicate ideas.

We looked at a Pirelli tyres advertisement and the metaphor is that despite the guy obviously being an athlete he is wearing heels which are completely the wrong shoes to run in therefore he has the power, but there is no control. 

3s'

• Semantics
• Sensations
• Structure

These are the things you need to consider when analyzing metaphors behind art work. 

In groups we used the 3s' to work out metaphors with artists work.  We looked at a piece called 'ghost' by Rachel Whiteread, on first glace I thought it was a bit dull until we began to think harder at the meaning. We came up with the feeling of being on the outside looking in and that the mould of the room is something you can't see buts always there.

Vanitas - A still life in which the object refers to death

Using music we looked at lyrics to find metaphors.

Love the way you lie - Eminem feat. Rihanna

'Maybe thats what happens when a tornado meets a volcano, all I know if that I love you too much to walk away though' 

Waterfalls - TLC

'Don't go chasing waterfalls please stick to the rivers and the lakes that your used too'

Stop Crying your heart out - Oasis

'Your destiny may keep you warm'

Born to Die - Lana del Rey 

'Lost but now I am found, I can see but once I was blind'

We then chose one idea and experimented by putting ideas together on paper.

Textiles - Day 3

In day three of textiles we carried on what we had already been doing working from our previous work again making observational drawings and layering them to create surface patterns. Colour schemes were very important therefore we had to experiment with ones we wanted to use in our sketch books as well as the materials.

We also looked at some work of other artists such as Timourous Beasties to get a glimpse of consumerism Textiles.http ://vimeo.com/47612140 . We also looked at Textiles within fine art and the work of Susan Stockwell http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/videos/a/video-a-chinese-dream-by-susan-stockwell/

Textiles - Day 1 and 2

The first day of textiles was very similar to some of the illustration taster as we focused on our observational drawing skills. We firstly working in our sketch books as a warm up we looked at different parts of a set-up of objects re-drawing them in various ways in different materials layering them.

We then did this again on collaged and white paper to experiment with materials.

We then progressed to print making working from our drawings.

With the mono printing we wanted to layer the different colour and experiment with surface pattern.

Queensbury Hunt

This piece has a textiles feel to it because of the patterns printed on the ceramic, the different plates layered together work well to make it look like  a form of 3D artwork as well as a practical object.

Again images printed on to ceramic, this print is one of my favourites from my research as the people clinging on to the edge is quite comical.

Rosenthal

The material here looks nothing like what you expect it making you think twice about it being an actual pot. It looks like a still from a video and is very surreal because these solid objects look like they are made from liquid.

Another Interesting surrealistic piece, the vases becoming the very thing you don't want them to be, smashed or broken. It's almost quite humorous as I imagine a viewer would be very shocked to see than the product had been damaged only to realize that it is supposed to be like that.

Applied Arts - Day 3

The third day revolved around ceramics. We looked at some different examples of clay such as terracotta and bone china, and also both mass produced products and one off pieces. We also researched Artists on the internet:

Rosenthal

Queensbury Hunt

After this we made some quick thumb hole pots to get a feel for the material and then later we produced some coil pots out of clay.

Then we added white slip onto a slab of clay and made patterns and drawings from it by pulling away the slip off the surface of the clay.

At the end of the day we watched a clay throwing demonstration by on of the technicians which I really enjoyed.

Applied Arts - Day 1 and 2

I have paired the firs two days of applied arts together because on the first day other than theory we mainly went through health and safety. Our first task for the theory was to research one Artist from a list and put it in our sketch book.

On the second day we began to make our cube blocks, we did this by creating different tester pieces from the techniques we had been taught in the health and safety walk through on the first day. My favourite machine in the workshop would probably be the fly press, I really liked making indentations in the metal and creating interesting patterns.

^ This is my favourite side on the block, the tester I created out of steel came out the best out of them all I think. I twisted some wire into some random patterns and placed it on to the metal then used the fly press to press the pattern on to the steel. Then I burnt the metal to create interesting colours on it, it reminded me of reptiles skin.

Photography - Day 2

In the second day of photography we were told we would be looking at observational photography. We were told to look for a few different things such as colour and juxtaposition and make sure we always considered composition as we weren't aloud to crop our images in the editing process. We were given some digital cameras and sent out for most of the day in to chesterfield to take photographs, I took some on my iPhone and my partner on the camera so we got a bigger range of photographs, here's a slideshow of our best 15 images.