Forgotten // Solution 2

This is the second solution to my A2 art coursework. Click HERE for full summary, from solution 1. 

The second solution again aimed to achieve an eerie atmosphere, this time through the idea of 'Shadows' - when you walking alone, maybe through a wood, and it feels like someone is following you, that your not alone, yet you cannot see anyone. Artist inspiration from Gormley's figured, one located in my local city.

Achieved by using thick tracing paper with pen drawings of 'eerie' old looking trees, layered up with cutout sections and figured 'hiding'. Figures were later cut, generated on the 2D Design programme from photographs I had taken, onto a grey 'clear' acrylic plastic and wrapped with silver wire. This combination created interesting shadows.  

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Photographic Series

 

Developing my interest in photography, I completed a set of photographic series. Within these series I manipulated, layered and worked into my photographs.

 

The series featuring natural floral imagery, I experimented with tracing paper layers and cut outs in order to enhance particular areas and textures in the photographs. With left over 'cut outs',  I photographed the flowers through the circle 'gap' giving a blurred effect.

 

I created a series of photographic responses to the work of Eduardo Recife. Here I have used paints and stencils to layer and overlap the imagery. Typography has also been included in the outcomes. 

 

'Altering Reality' - a the trio of 'Oxford knitting' photographs. The Oxford knitting added a unique twist on the iconic surrounding in my local area, I was hugely excited to have come across this and have photographed and developed further by simplifying the Radcliffe Camera  and surrounding buildings.

 

 I also experimented with beach photography by working into the images with beach 'doodles' and quotations. In this silhouette image I added a stereotypical seaside quotation, the typography followed the direction of a wave. 



 





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Exploring Type

 

The independent project was to enable me to explore typography further. Within this sketchbook, I explored different types of typography and fonts, several typographic designers and different techniques to create this type.

 

My favourite parts of the project were the paper cut photographic typography piece, the layered coloured design, the multi layered cut out and the handwriting project - where I collected a sample of peoples handwriting from my Sixth Form. It was interesting to observe how much extra care they took when writing when I asked them to; this concept was something I originally hadn't thought about.

 



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Creativity

 

This was an AS Graphics project for Typography. My intentions for this project was to explore both digital and handmade techniques.

 

I explored multiple medias and techniques; stencils, printing, laser cut, photography. The idea that these techniques represented the 'message' I wanted to put across using the quote, "Creativity is intelligence having fun" - Albert Einstein. Each layer used a different technique to create typography onto acetate.

 



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Riot

 

For this project I researched into layered scenery and puppetry, eventually developing the idea of creating a layered piece to represent the St Scholastica Day riot - something local to me.

 

For this project I used the 2D design programme and laser cutter to create the layers, which I put together with foam strips, allowing shadows to form from the red backlit frame. 

 



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