Developing Structures!

Well I've not updated my blog in a while, shame on me!

I have been working on my last project of this year and loving been in the workshops and experimenting with materials once again.

My concept for this project is Structures and comparing buildings to the human structure.

I've been focusing on the features of each and selecting my own  photos and using anatomy books for inspiration. 

Looking into our Skeleton and using this as a starting point for my samples to develop.

Here are some of my samples so far and my bay!

Right now I'm at the development stage of my project so I need to finalize my concept and start designing!

Update.

I've been thinking about the whole learner agreement part of this project this week.

I think this is the hardest part considering all the other weeks have been fun with experimenting with materials and finding out new techniques.

I have a lot of samples to choose from and this week we also had a group crit.

The rest of my group picked out samples they really liked and how I could make products from them and what I could do next.

I really love getting a second opinion or more on my work because when you look at it for too long you start to over think what other people would find interesting.

I'm still not 100% sure what I want to make but I'm thinking about a decoration object and then accessories

focusing more on jewellery and ceramics.

A lot of people liked the cylinder shape so I've been working with that, my tutor suggested I work with a sphere shaped moulds to try it out and experiment so that's my plan for Monday, I really like the idea of sticking with the rounded shape because it was successful in jewellery and I want my pieces to look like a collection in the end.

In my own time I'm trying to get back into painting, I'd love to take some photos of my own and paint them later on so they're more personal but at the moment I was just browsing the internet and came across this.

 I really love the style of Francoise Neilly and expressionist painting

I did this using acrylic paint with pallette knifes and black ink with brushes on a plain while canvas.

Project update; point of field.

Hey guys so the last 2 weeks I've been in the Jewellery workshop whipping up some samples and breaking lots of saw blades.
I'm really excited what I've been making and I've been really enjoying my theme and using plastics.

I've also being making some ceramic decal tiles and playing around with plaster bats, painting colored slip on them then covering them in normal porcelain slip to create a colorful tile.

Finding Inspiration: Visits part ll

Some more images and places you can go for inspiration:

Mima: http://www.visitmima.com/ Unfortunatley I didn't take any photo's at Mima but one of the rooms was actually under construction at the time anyway.

The Dorman Museum: http://www.dormanmuseum.co.uk/WWW2/index.html

which was very useful for anyone who needs history research and is just a all around great family museum.

Huge collection of Linthorpe pottery and amazing Christopher Dresser designs

and a random photo of tribal layout I found quite interesting:

 

I also visited The Winter Gardens in Sunderland: http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/sunderland.html

which  displays somewhere inbetween History, ceramics/glass and of course The Winter Gardens them selves.

Finding Inspiration: Visits part l

Hey guys so I've been collecting lots of inspiration this past week.

I went to The Biscuits Factory on Friday night and took a few photo's below for inspiration.

I only took images of objects that inspired me during my current project but there's some fantastic paintings there and beautiful larger sculptures.

http://www.thebiscuitfactory.com/