After talking to Derek a few days before we decided it was a good idea for us to have another meeting before easter half term where Peter was present to include his opinion in my current work and what route to take.
After looking through my sketch book and telling Peter the ideas and research me and Derek had came up with he said this was a good route to take but I wouldn't have much time to do the screen printing so I was to stick with my collage and painting experiments for the moment but get myself prepared to spend a couple of days in the studio when I came back after easter.
He also said that going down the symbolism route was a great idea and that I could tell stories through their outfits or even make images of personalised outfits to express the person wearing them. I thought this was a good idea and he gave me a book to get influence from over easter. This book was all about western wear and how they wore outfits and had these outfits personally made to express their interests and life experiences.
After these meetings it was a great weight of my shoulders as i now know more of where im going with my work and what to work towards. Peter told me to stop working in my sketch book and gave me A3 and A2 paper to work with so that i could produce larger, more detailed and different processes into my work and work towards producing final images for the degree show.
Saturday 9 April 2011
Peter Blake...
Below are some of the images I found and where influenced by that had been produced by Peter Blake that involve symbolism.
Tutorial with Derek...
Ive been pretty bad at updating my blog but I'm going to try blog the last few weeks as best as I can now. So here goes...
After slacking quite a bit with my attendance at uni I thought it was about time to sort myself out and arrange meetings with tutors about my work. Firstly I arranged to have a tutorial with Derek Rogers.
I hadn't done quite as much work as I should of by this point but I wasn't sure where my work was actually going and what kind of outcome I would end up producing. Im still a little stuck with my final out come but after this meeting I now have more of a rough idea of what the project will entail.
Whilst looking at my painted images of women in carnival dress Derek suggested looking a lot more into the work of another one of our lecturers Peter Lloyd and working along side him in the print studio as he had specialised in screen printing. The effect I had got from my paintings would work well and look very similar to the effect I would get from the screen printing process. He also suggested looking into the work of Peter Blake who had done images of tattooed women and mexican wrestlers that involved symbolism in their outfits.
While looking through the rest of my sketch book we decided a good way to go about my work was to add symbolism into the outfits as my images at the moment had potential but they were just drawings they didn't do anything or give the viewer anything interesting to look at.
Me and Derek then went on to have a conversation about how I can incorporate this symbolism by looking into hidden meanings, stories, folklore of the carnival and caribbean into my work. He suggested researching carnival in more detail looking at the characters and stories, looking at the bad and the good sides of carnival and the culture. He also suggested looking into notting hill carnival, how, when and why it started, looking into this would produce a good idea of trying to subvert the cultures into my images.
I thought this was a good idea and I am going to spend my easter half term experimenting with different processes seeing what outcomes i can achieve.
After slacking quite a bit with my attendance at uni I thought it was about time to sort myself out and arrange meetings with tutors about my work. Firstly I arranged to have a tutorial with Derek Rogers.
I hadn't done quite as much work as I should of by this point but I wasn't sure where my work was actually going and what kind of outcome I would end up producing. Im still a little stuck with my final out come but after this meeting I now have more of a rough idea of what the project will entail.
Whilst looking at my painted images of women in carnival dress Derek suggested looking a lot more into the work of another one of our lecturers Peter Lloyd and working along side him in the print studio as he had specialised in screen printing. The effect I had got from my paintings would work well and look very similar to the effect I would get from the screen printing process. He also suggested looking into the work of Peter Blake who had done images of tattooed women and mexican wrestlers that involved symbolism in their outfits.
While looking through the rest of my sketch book we decided a good way to go about my work was to add symbolism into the outfits as my images at the moment had potential but they were just drawings they didn't do anything or give the viewer anything interesting to look at.
Me and Derek then went on to have a conversation about how I can incorporate this symbolism by looking into hidden meanings, stories, folklore of the carnival and caribbean into my work. He suggested researching carnival in more detail looking at the characters and stories, looking at the bad and the good sides of carnival and the culture. He also suggested looking into notting hill carnival, how, when and why it started, looking into this would produce a good idea of trying to subvert the cultures into my images.
I thought this was a good idea and I am going to spend my easter half term experimenting with different processes seeing what outcomes i can achieve.
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