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.