F.M.P

For my F.M.P I was planning on producing a full size portrait painting using realistic colour with paints but as the deadline for the project was nearing I realised that I would not have enough time to achieve what I wanted to do.

While researching the human form, I realised that I was quite good at drawing eyes so I decided to concentrate on just drawing the eyes of my girlfriend Joanne, her son Logan and myself. The picture above is of my final piece for my F.M.P.

Flash Mobs: Explosion of Performance

The 2 videos in this post are of flash mobs, which are impromtu performances in a public place. I like to think that these are explosions of performance because no-one, apart from the actors involved, know that the performance is going to happen, so to me its a good representation of an explosion, it just happens spontaniously!

The flash mob below is of a wedding proposal on the London Underground

And the below flash mob is in Grand Central Station in New York U.S

This is one of my favorites, for 5 minutes about 200 people dotted around the station just froze, ordinary members of the public didn't know what was going on!!

AC/DC TNT Live!

This is AC/DC doing their song TNT live. I thought it would be cool to put on my blog for my one word project because my word is 'explosive' and because it's my favourite AC/DC song!! =)

Printing Project Final Pieces

The 2 images below are of my final pieces for the 2 word printing project

Decay is one of the words I chose for the project and the graffiti is a representation of urban decay.

The main background that the graffiti is on is a linocut of a brick wall, then I drew the graffiti on them using pencil and then either painted and used oil pastels to make the graffiti.

I really like the outcome of these pieces and even though I like drawing graffiti and like the look of graffiti, I think it is a good representation of urban decay.

The other final piece is to represent architecture, the other word I chose to use for my print project. Despite the fact the most of the work in my sketchbook is mainly based on decaying architecture or architectual decay, I thought it would still be a good idea to do 2 final pieces for this project to represent the 2 chosen words.

The above picture is a collection of etches, in 3 different colours, of a prison in Cuba called Presidio Modelo. The main reason I looked at this prison was because of an interesting engineering method called Panopticon, which is a way of constructing a building, mainly prisons and other institutions, so that all the cells or rooms in the building can be seen from one point in the building, making it easier for a guard to check-up on the people in the cells/rooms.

This is the repeated pattern I created in the Mac lesson this morning, it's a picture of henna tattooed hand done for a wedding. The main reason I chose to create a repeated pattern using tattooed hand is because I'm going to design a tattoo lifestyle magazine for our Mac lesson project.

Bit of a crappy drawing of an alleyway depicting urban decay!

Last Orders!

Here's another picture taken by my girlfriend, Joanne, of a f**ked-up pub in Salford.

I'm going to try and do a painting of this picture because I love it!!!