University.

so its weird being here, and not living and breathing my art work. its taken all summer but im getting into drawing again. going to post a few shots of my final project, maybe put up the oh so funny argument between me and my american muse. 4am blog posting, cool. drunkydrunk , happy halloween everyone (: gonna start playing again with thisss and doin me doodles and paintings and crap, just to keep me sane in this academic weird as world. night xx

Body as a landscape/ Ambiguity

i missed the briefing of this project due to over sleeping (oops) and so im not very eloquent with explaining what it was about..
it was in response to a relatively unknown artist who takes ambiguious photos of body parts and flips and rotates them and repeats them to create a new image. I made some kaleidoscope images with mine. (:
parts of my body were altered with facemasks and graphite powder.
so the original image was something like this.. 

then fliped and rotated and merged and so forth.

and then desatrate and re colour...

and then i flipped it and repeated it over and over.

...heres a few others too

amplified portraits

No updates for a while, I'd like to say I was in Plymouth so couldn't access a computer, but thats a lie, I was just in Plymouth not doing much art (:
Finished my new Berlin moleskine.. when I get a new camera I'll upload some pictures.
Here's my work from today's Fine Art Photography project- "Amplified Portraits"
Inspired by work from Arnulf Rainer and Helena Almeida, we took photos of ourselves and then painted on top of them to amplify or exaggerate.

Helena Almeida

Arnulf Rainer

We took photos shouting out possable emotions for us to act out. I was giggling through most of mine. Got some nice ones, I think.

After painting over the top of the images we re scanned them - will be ordering proper prints of these from dear old photobucket.

quickie experiments

forgot i did these before going away (:

starting off with a sexist ad from the 1950s, I reversed gender roles, as shown in the bottom one. Used photoshop to add colour.
The idea came from the stories about men wanting sexual harrassment law suits filed against women, and while i agree 100% that if they feel they are being harassed they have every right to make a complaint exactly as a woman would, i want to point out that through out history, women have always been undermined and pinned down, so of course we will get all pissed about things like this being blown out of proportion.
i think ill try and find the link to the article im on about, when ive finished the other drawings, but ive been travelling for 9 hours today so im going to bed now (: night night x

Berlin, and why i have nothing to show for it

so very soon im going to start a new shiny moleskine all about Berlin, and use photos that others took to create it and memories and that, because mine got stolen in a wine bar. along with my whole bag ):
after the incident in Brussells I've been super careful with it, and just dont know how it happened, i didnt leave it on its own or unattended or anything, there were people around it the whole time. Anyway i got my purse back, cus it had my ID and room keys they tracked me to the hostel I was staying at. Got it back, and the grand total of 8 euros and a tram ticket good for 2 more days had been taken, fucking pathetic people.
The issue is, its obvious we're a group of students, so why would someone take a bag assuming theyd get anything decent out of it? the contents was, my gloves, a broken camera containing my photos from the zoo, my moleskine, a little bit of cash, unuseable debit cards, some train tickets for plymouth, and my keys. so absolutely nothing useful to this prick, but all of them so, so useful to me.
I think I've stayed pretty calm so far about it, didnt get all "smash stuff up" angry about it (: im maturing.
so hold on for one day projects about Berlin, and also completed fine art stuff  that im well up for doing. The trip has truley inspired me, but a ramble about it wont be much fun with out pictures.
despite the bag fuck up it was an amazing trip (: so glad we went. torn between the bunker and the zoo as being my faveroute bits.. love love loved them both.
So anyway figured I should post a little post about it, seemed the proper thing to do (:
x

War Photos

Today, I played with army men.

the Time mag is part of the assesment criteria. I think it also adds a bit more depth to the project.
Oh the horrors of war.
My Dad was in the army, has been to most of the recent conflicts, and so I suppose it had some bearing on my life. Means my view on war isnt exactly like the films show. Apparently the war on afghan was mostly waiting around for their squad. But i guess he wouldnt talk about things that had upset him, or things that he would fear would upset me.
andyway heres the results, enjoy.

Aftermath

some initial edits and photos for the "aftermath" project
going to play around some more before i send off for final prints
we had to create a still life that may have come from a war scene, or post apocalyptic scene and so on
i guess mostly due to poor planning, i chose to do food, and chose food stuffs that would be the kind of thing that people store in case they survive an apocalypse. also, i wanted brand names to be seen on the pictures, such as heinz and coca cola, kind of as a remider of the empires that once were.
its all very dusty. theyve been there a while, and after the initial blast, were damaged.

theyre all pretty similar at the minute, so thats why im going to play some more, now that i have lovely new photoshop (:

Sculpture day/Moleskine extracts.

My silly sleepless head is making me forget things im doing halfway through doing them. 
Pottered about the Ashmolean today, drawing stuff.
looking forward to working with clay from a life model next week, never done that before (:
didnt produce a lot, just moleskine work.
after lunch was Thomas Houseago again, and ive been there twice now, and wrote a big long essay on him before. Feeling sick still, my cough gets worse at night so i havent been sleeping well so went home, cleaned the house and fell asleep. (Y)

Ganna be filling a glass with gelatine and water, and little rinestones and see what comes out. (: also making a doll for EPD projects. doing it right this term.

Walnut drawing day

a day of drawing walnuts.
heres my little sketches.

I think I ate more walnuts than I drew (:

tomorrow is sculputre.. :/ hanging out at an exhibition ive already been to, yay.
half way through a big big walnut drawing.
my life is awesome.


* UPDATE* jess just told me they all look like vaginas ): and i have to agree.

Empire State/ Lost in Translation

We began our new and exciting pathways today. Mondays from now on is FA photography. Theme was "Lost in Translation" which started a bit of a dicussion about films.
our tutor wants us to watch "the Road" in preperation for next week. I've seen it before, and I swear we were just waiting for the annoying kid to die. It had some good bits but my god, how that kid survived the apocolypse is beyond me. But yeah, the cinematography was good (is that a word?) and thats what were focusing on for our post apocalyptic still life projects next week.
Anyway we played around with some text, translating it, seeing if meanings get confused and mixed up. I used peoples facebook statuses for mine.. But others were being a bit deeper, such as biblical quotes or looking at issues of immigration. My point for using the statuses is how jumbled and meaningless these constant updates are (she says as she updates her status "hey guys! new blog!") and i put it against an image of the empire state building. The building was meant to be a reference to the Biblical story about the Babel tower if you know it. If not, it sort of doubles as this symbolic american icon, and says about nationality and equality in "the great melting pot" that is america.
It was weird doing a one day project again, the panic really sets in when its half way through the day and youve done nothing.
Heres the results, Im more proud of some than others.

this is the very first one i did, probably the best of the lot.

you cant tell, but here ive played with the acetone so the letters come in and out of focus.

and the last one, its just all jumbly.

enjoy. next post will be about walnuts.

ideas ideas

for the first time in many weeks i find myself not busy, or snowed under a mountain of work or procastinating, and its an odd feeling.
maybe ill do an EPD, that might be nice.
i dont like doing nothing :/ spent all of today doing housework. clean house, but now im out of ideas, and have nothing else on tomorrow.
got a few artsy ideas, might make a start in a bit. i wanna use some fimo, love fimo.
review went pretty well (: yay.
daily blog entries arent much fun when i have nothing to say.

here we go. one finished heart piece.

says on the tin.

not sure i like it, am doing another one any way. at this point i cant be too picky.

♥

a lot of people think im a vegetarian; im not, its just i often prefer the veggie options on menus. and, i disagree with Halal meat (for reasons that really ought to be kept out of an art blog) so stick to veggie options in the college canteen and that.
Im just a bit picky i guess, i wont eat fatty meats, as it puts me off my whole meal. which is a shame, i like duck really but if its a whole roasted one, i just cant touch it till theres no gross slimy bits on it.
also, i cant stand lamb.
so anyway in the name of Art, ive spent a lot of today playing around with a lamb heart. (: not so bad, just dont expect me to eat it yeah?
heres some initial pictures, will post a final poster/advert in a bit.

second skin.

horray one poster finished. if i can print this off all shiny and that, maybe i wont be hurt too badly tomorrow.
idk how ill print it off thu
found some photo paper, A4 should be ok for now.
its really the best i could hope for.
anyway here it is.

oh, so i suck.

Massively so.
I said id post every day and evidently I didnt, as Ross pointed out on New Years.
Hope every one had a good one any way (:
Kind of went to Plymouth for a bit, then christmas craziness and illness (and laziness) has had me not doing a lot of work.
Currently freaking out about my time project, and bout my art review. Chosen to do it on Thomas Houseago, as hes currently exhibiting at MAO. Oh. i ought to be writing it now :/
Well back to doing  that. By wednesday, i would have finished my time project so look forward to that (: itll have to come as a big lump, as this is how im doing it.
also looking into making plaster casts, was hoping to do one of my mum's ever expanding stomach. (pregnant not fat)
Ill be quiet now cus ive got a LOT of work to do.