up and coming

Sorry I have not written in my blog for a while. A mix up with my meds caused a huge blip in my daily life for a few days, only just levelling out. What I can say is, that even though I was very down, I still managed to attend my lectures, but it was not the best of times..

Anyway back to my art… I have started a number of new projects based on zoomorphic art.. at first I was under the impression that this meant art of imagines of pollen, germs etc from under a microscope. however it is Art that imagines humans as animals 

 

Below is a brief summary of some of my works in progress

1/ I originally started making maggots and flys out of clay, however they appeared to me to be too comical for my liking, although my figures tend to be comical. 

2/ A clay sculptor of a man in the foetal position covering his ears..  I liked this as it gave an impression of despair. 

3/ I took the silhouette of my head and made a wooden cut out to use in an extractor. This produced a huge sausage of my head, which I then cut in to hundreds of slices. The to me fitted well, as at the time I felt like a parasite on the face of the world….. I loved that whole concept .

4/ I made clay bricks, 12 in total. Each one will have carvings and sculptors of the human form. I intend to lay the together with mortar once fired.  I also looked in to saucing green bricks but this is proving difficult at this moment. 

 

Please note all these pieces are works in progress

Blue blue you

Its been coming on for a few weeks now, I have woken this morning in a huge downer.. I do not want to go and do art, talk to people or even smile at them. I feel worthless, I  have little or no empathy for anyone. I want my bed, I want to hide from this tiny ugly world.... Yes I feel this is relevant to my art work, my moods, I mean, there change my style, my ideas my hopes and what and how I produce pieces etc., So me stating I am down is very relevant...

I feel, in fact I know, people avoid this side of me, were my manic side they appear to love, till I get out of control, and people then panic.. Funny thing is I kinda like this side. the depressed me, the deep me, the world becomes clear, real, outlined in a thick black marker, were as my manic side, is colourful, tinted, bright almost glowing, beautiful but not real nor raw...

My week has not felt great and I have been out of my comfort zone.. technical drawing is not my best, i am thinking that this is due to my dyspraxia, another uncomfortable aspect of my week was a session on "mapping" this floated my boat as much as a huge lump of concrete strapped to my feet. It really is not my thing, looking at artist that use this technique and i feel nothing, no inspiration, no emotions at all to be honest. 

Now whether my discontent for this week has been down to the subjects or my mood is debatable, but today i am more inclined to believe its a mood thing. hopefully my mood will pick up over the weekend and i will be able to grab something from this week.

I did however create a man in a fetal position, with his hands over his ears, this was out of clay.. I like it, still unsure whether to fire or not?

So there you have it, a crappy week summed up in a few paragraphs. 

Card in the multiples

I started these sculptures as just a cut out of my silhouette;(knowing me that's how you spell a high heeled shoe) I did this time and time again to form a huge stack of multiple heads.  I love the landscape effect it has created.

As a by-product I also created the negatives of my silhouette , which under different lights products great effects.

So not to waste too much of the card left over, I created  another silhouette of my head using swirls and bends, all collied together .   

 

Finally I bolted yet more multiples of card together to create what to me looks like a chaotic piece.. Personally I did not bond with this piece.  

All in all I really enjoyed the results of the work I put in to these pieces..  

change faces and ideas

This week I have continued my focus on the body, particularly the head and face. On Monday I made a number of head shapes out of wire, However i was not to impressed with the outcome, due to the fact that wire was far too easy to ms-shaped by knocks etc. It also did not portray a face as I expected and looked more like a bent wire frame. I also tried using a wooden frame, with Welding rods drilled though, what I was hoping was that I could mould and shape a face protruding from the rods. This ended up proving difficult due to the rigidity of the rods, however this could be looked at again in the future, it’s just not right for a facial sculptor at this moment in time. 
I have enjoyed the week, but dam i have been tired,

 

Life drawing also played apart in my week and as mentioned before fitted in with my inspiration’s of moment, facial features etc. below are a few of my sketches, mainly 2 minute pose drawings.

After moving aside the wire idea, i moved on to stencilling my head with the use of an overhead projector, on to a piece of card, since then i used that one piece of card as a template and continued to make more and more stencils of my head. I intend to make some form of sculptor once I have enough...












It’s been another difficult week. I have found that I am unable to focus on more than one thing at a time, this tended to lead me to get in a twist.  Especially If i can't work things out in my head. Again I have been hugely tired and if I am honest a little grumpy at home. I am blaming the change in season and the dark evenings, however those around me have raised concerns and a small med change has taken place. So Wednesday evening I took a step back from my art work, I am not saying I am giving up, I am just accepting that I cannot do everything and i cannot always fulfil other people’s expectations
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reflection of the week..

Not much in the way of sculpting this week. my focus has been on drawing.. 
Ok this how it began... Drafted my personal statement,( seriously i saw one example that stated, rather than seeing a rusty nail, they see, gold, silver, browns, ) my focused on my inspirations like
People. Facial expressions, gestures, movement.  Nature. Shape, form, colours and the cyclical nature of life in general.This then lead my lecturer to understand where i was coming from with my ideas.

So i started looking at skulls, drawing their features etc. at first as usual i was heavy with pencil( the shakes make it a little hard work being light at time) but i experiment with just using the pencil end. I also looked at drawing using points. I moved on to drawing myself (shudder)

Oh Thursday i did life drawing( different qualification, but fitted in nicely with my week) I loved it, not a straight line in sight wooo hooo, felt a little sorry for the model(cos I'd be uncomfortable stood naked in front of so many people, but she stated she zoned out which eased my mind. 

Friday i used graphite powder, closed my eyes, felt my face and mapped it with the graphite and my fingers... turned out some great pieces, i also did a paper draft of a 3d model of an abstract face i designing (photos to be added later)

I have enjoyed the week, but dam i have been tired, no change to my medication, and not depressed, so i can only take it that the dark evenings are having an effect on me. 

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Another protect completed

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  Another project completed this week I was, taking impression with clay of everyday objects. Then using plaster to get the relieve impression.. I then placed the impression on rods and secured then to a wood bases… I like the way they have come out on my photos