January 2011
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dear GeeGee →
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Bad intentions coloured
It was the hottest day of the year and the frog was getting too hot. He decided to go search for some water to cool down in.
He stumbled upon the lovely pond but there was only one problem…
In the pong swam a fish, this fish was even more beautiful than the pond. The frog was greedy and did not want to share the pond with anyone.
”A beautiful fisssshy like you...
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Artist study.
Stella Im Hultberg is an Artist whom I’m studying for a University project. As part of the project we have to re-create pieces of art from our chosen Artist. I chose to re-create “face 16” but using watercolours and pastels instead of ink and graphite (see below). http://www.etsy.com/listing/64528483/face-16 (original Face 16)
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Explorer
I’ve been experimenting a lot lately and its making me feel a lot more comfortable with my work. I’m really enjoying the freedom to try different techniques without pressure of deadlines, I feel like I’m finding my own style finally :)
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Listen
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I need an owl.
(work in progress. Photoshop)
I need a wise old owl. Sometimes I just want to rant about my life to strangers and to have them listen. I don’t care if they reply or not. Its just good to get it out your system when no one else will listen. I need a wise old owl.
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ITAP 9: The experts
Alphonse Muchas (1860-1939)
Today Alphonse Mucha is recognized for the bridge he created between “high art” and commercialism a great example of this is his Box for the “Gaufrettes Vanille” Lefèvre-Utile biscuits (see below).
Mucha showed the people of his time and us that commercial work doesn’t have to be bland, it can be a powerful piece of art full of beauty and...
30 day challenge →
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Day 1– A photo of yourself and description of how your day was. Day 2 – A photo of something you ate today Day 3 – Your idea of the perfect first date. Day 4 – Your favourite…
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ITAP:8
“Can a photograph really capture what is going on in a persons mind?” Jillian Warian.
The answer is no, it can not that is why Wendy Ewald did a photo collection of people and got them to write down what was going on in their minds at that moment in time.
Text can change the way you look at an image and text can also completely change the meaning...
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ITAP 7: Overcoming mindsets and Managing a...
If your given a brief in which you don’t really like the expected outcome then you have to break the rules a little. Think about what aspect of the brief you don’t like and question how you can break the rules. You have to think what if I did this? Why can’t I do this? You have to try and be playful when trying to break the rules because you can’t take it so far that...
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ITAP:6 Testing and Interpretation
Being illustrators we have to make sure we are constantly testing our work and getting it out to the audience but how do we do that? One way is blogging our work but you can’t just make a blog and expect it to be an instant hit, you have to circulate it and get people to look at it. To do this you also need to be looking at other artists blogs and leaving feedback in doing so...
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ITAP:5 Three act structure and the heros journey
“Every movie needs to have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.” This quote is by a famous film maker called Jean-Luc Godard, he believed that every film has a structure: BEGINNING : MIDDLE : END or you could call it ESTABLISH : CRISIS : RESOLVE. In the first ACT we establish what is happening around us. We get placed into the scene...
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ITAP:4 Utilize your creative brain and develop...
Our brain is split into two parts, one side is for organizer, it evaluates everything that we do and make the logical decision and evaluations. The right side is rather like a child, it wants to play and be creative not sit around filing things the illustration above shows this well.
When we are being creative say trying new things and or completing a brief we have been set we have to...
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TAP 3:legibility and visual hierarchy
What makes a communication legible?
Whether something is legible depends on what the object in question is, who it is for and what is its purpose. For example the legibility on an iphone app is going to be different from the legibility on.. say an information leaflet. On an iphone you need the type to be readable and because of the screen size you don’t want chunks of text where as...
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ITAP 2:Practice and Inspiration
“Note book after note book after note book because I feel sick when I forget potentially good ideas. I don’t slack, I take photographs, I draw, I scan, I photoshop.” Paul Davis makes a very good point here, if you wake up in the morning after an inspiring dream and don’t write/draw it down you are going to forget it, what a waste. That’s why as artists we...
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TIAP1: WIP
Notions of originality is a topic which got discussed in a lecture we had, which I though made a very good point because when creating a painting, photograph or even a commercial your idea generates from somewhere. To be able to create any of the above you need to be inspired, when you are inspired you take an element of that inspiration into your own work some people would call this...