Christmas Holidays! - Now What?

Today was our last day in college until after Christmas, when we get our assessments, so what's the plan now?

Well, I'm hoping to finish off my sketchbook for starters, then I need to put in a few more artists I found recently into my Contextual Notebook, however, I do have a couple little things that I plan to do.

First off, I plan to create another scored/folded paper, but in a much larger scale. Maybe incorparate some colour this time? I also want to try and see if I can do some painting. Not sure how this will turn out just yet, but lets see how it goes!

That's my quick update done for today, I'll still post some updates whenever I feel like I need to. To everyone else who is finished college until the new year, here's hoping you have a great time back at home, and Merry Christmas!

Geometric Shadows - Video

I present to you, my video for my geometric shadows!

I decided not to include any audio in this video, because I didn't want to take away from the focal point of the whole video. This is not the entire video! The video itself is actually split into two 15 minute videos. I didn't upload the whole video because, well, I can't! The video is way to large to be uploaded from home. I can probably upload the video where there is somewhere that has a fast upload speed, but enough about the technicalities of the megabytes of a video being uploaded, here's a short version of the video (the quality of the video was lowered also, but it is only a quick, preview video!):

Here's hoping I can show off this video on an Apple Mac sometime soon! Perhaps for my assessment?

That's all for now though, see you later!

CCS Visual Notebook

As I mentioned before, I'm currently working on my A5 CCS Visual Notebook, which contains all of the main topics discussed in our studio's Thursday CCS seminar with Susan Halvey. As part of the seminar, we were asked to create this notebook filled which was visual in nature. Here's a few of the artists discussed in our seminars:

Damien Hirst

For The Love Of God

2007

Diamond covered platinum skull

171 x 127 x 191 mm.

This skull is encrusted with 8,601 diamonds and it's asking price was £50 million, which would have been the highest price ever paid for a single work. The pear-shaped pink diamond in the forehead is the skull star diamond. It's price cause uproar, and others stated that his works are all stunts. John Lekay accused Hirst of plagerising his piece "Spiritus Callidus #2", and Hirst has more than eleven others pieces which are said to be plagerised from other artists.

Marcel Duchamp

L.H.O.O.Q

1919

Color reproduction of the Mona Lisa altered with a pencil

7¾ x 5 in.

Duchamp haas drawn a moustache and a goatee upon this reproduction in 1919. Underneath the Mona Lisa are the letters "L.H.O.O.Q", and when these letters are pronounce in French ("Elle a chaud au cul) it translates as "She has a hot ass"! It soon became one of the most famous acts of degrading a famous work of art. It is a piece that is said to be "Anti-Art"

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I have a video of the shadows of my geometric pieces hanging in front of my wall, so hopefully I can upload that tomorrow, but I still have to decide what sound to include in the video. I'm looking for something subtle, something that adds to the atmosphere of the video, rather than taking it away.

More updates soon!

Tomma Abts & Thomas Heatherwick

Hello!

I've been really busy all this week, just trying to prepare more work before our assessments, and during this week, I found many new artists which are definitely helping me a lot with my project, so here's a couple of them:

Tomma Abts

Mehm

2005

Acrylic and oil on canvas

19 x 15 inches, 48 x 38 cm

Tomma Abts creates these paintings filled with lines that create geometric shapes, and these overlapping lines create a great sense of depth among the flat background. The shapes created are almost three-dimensional, and as the viewer looks at it, we can immediately make presumptions on which shapes are standing out in the front, and what shapes are being overlapped behind. Abts is a great source of inspiration for me in terms of how I can approach painting into my work.

Thomas Heatherwick

Angel's Wings

2004

Sculpture

11 meters high

Heatherwick created this pair of metal sculptures to act as a cooling vent for a London Electricity substation. He experimented with combining isosceles triangles to form this complex, geometric form which catches light beautifully. The shape of these structures is like scoring and folding paper, which I am currently working with, and so these structures helps me think of new ways to score and fold paper to catch the different tones of light which creates these geometric shapes.

The amount of artists which I have found recently are a enormous help, which is great. I've got to sort out which is my strongest pieces of my work for my assessment  which will be talked about on Monday, and I also have to finish off my CCS Seminar Notebook for Monday, so I guess I'm a bit busy this weekend!

But, that's enough from me for now, see you guys soon!

Further Shadow Experimentation

Hey guys!

When I stuck up one of my 3-D pieces on the wall on the way to the Vis Com studios, I was really interested in the soft, subtle shadow created by the light coming in through the window. After I recorded it with my camera, I wanted to re-create that shadow somhow, even though that shadow will be gone at a different tim of the day, so I decided to trace the shadow with a 2B pencil to create a smooth transition between the stronger parts of the shadow, to the lighter, more faded parts of the shadow. Here is a photograph of the artificial shadow, but to be honest, it is much better to see this in person:

I was planning of applying the same idea to my other 3-D pieces after I photograph them on a clean, white wall with good lighting, including the following pieces:

So that's my plans starting tomorrow! Thanks for reading, and bye for now!

Recording Geometric Shadows & Scoring/Folding Paper

Hey guys!

So today I was talking to my tutors and they seemed really interested in the photographs of the shadows created by my geometric pieces ( which can be seen two posts below this post) and they said that I should take more photographs of the different types of shadows created with my other 3-D pieces. I also put a few photos through Photoshop and edited them, however, I seem to get a better reaction from the natural, non-edited photos.

It was also suggested that I should work more on the scored and folded paper which Elaine showed me at one of her 3-D workshops, but this time on a much larger scale. Sounds like fun, since the scoring and folding technique is quite quick and simple to do!