Wednesday 16 February 2011

Art is something I have always loved doing. I would like to create designs that the public are able to see, catching their attention, something that stands out from the rest. I feel that colour is important when designing because a good design needs to make you look twice and in my opinion colour does this.
I have also come to realise that art is a way of expressing a mood, a feeling and each design or piece of design has its own story to tell.
Lately I have been using Radim Malinic, Tim Marrs and Matei Apostelesu as inspiration, all there work is completely different but there are different aspects from each person that I like and try to incorporate into my own work.
I like using mixed media techniques, building up layers and not always been sure on the outcome and if something goes wrong you try again on top of that and usually it ends up looking better and less original. My particular favorite technique to use is the cellulose thinner. I really like the grungy, worn effect that it gives, it is very vintage looking. When I’m working on a project, I usually start off with the research, then start practicing  different suitable techniques, then I gather together which pieces blend well or that I think will look good together, I then make my final piece in Photoshop. I do this because I think it gives it a more professional look and Photoshop gives you many more tools which a person is unable to do and keep the work at such a standard.

Fashion of the future

Hand drawn icon, for the fashion of the future project.

New Dawn

Stamp I made, inspired by Shepard Fairy.

World Culture- India

World Culture development work, mixed media techniques used.

Monday 14 February 2011

My town

My town magazine, mostly primary sources used to put this together.

Political piece

Fashion of the decades project: development work using transfer techniques.

Fashion drawings

Fashion of the future: fashion drawings.

Fifa: Advertisment for the game

Fifa advertisement, made with developed mixed media pieces and photoshop.

Mixed media piece

Mixed media piece

Catwalk of the decades: From a political view

Fashion of the future: T-shirt I made using cellulose thinner and political images.

My town: Phonebox

A simple image of a phone box drawn using different techniques; watercolours and wax crayons, all layered on top of each other.

Development work in photoshop

Mixed media piece

This started of as an image, then was coated in coffee, tea bags, anything I could find and just layered it up on top of each other.

Collage of Indian Culture