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!!!

Urban Decay

For the next project for the course, we have to choose 2 words to do prints of. The 2 words I have decided to use are 'decay' and 'architecture'. I'm still not sure whether to combine the 2 words to do 'decaying architecture' or to focus on the 2 words separately. The 2 pictures below were taken by my girlfriend, Joanne, while we walked around Manchester yesterday specifically to take pictures of decay.

The picture above is of a sign on a building site that is old decaying, the black lines on the picture is paint that has been weathered so much it's peeling off.

This picture is of a billboard that had a load of adverts posted on top of each other and that had been ripped off. The billboard currently has no advert on it but I just thought that all the ripped paper on it looked really cool and a good example of urban decay.

Some Cool Pictures From Prague

In Feb 2012 I went to Prague with the college. I love travelling and experiencing different cultures and seeing different things, to be honest I would love to travel the world! 

The following 4 pictures are of some things in Prague that I thought were really cool and interesting, mainly graffiti because there was so much cool art over there!

The picture above is of a vending machine in an art gallery we visited while in Prague. I thought this was pretty cool because the contents of it are spray paints and paints pens specifically for doing graffiti! A guy on the foundation degree (I shall name no names!) bought a pen from the machine which broke when it dropped down, when the guy took the pen out and opened the lid, the paint all over the floor! The woman working at the gallery went sick about it but most of us thought it was quite funny!

This is a little graffiti tag that was on a wall opposite our hotel. I love the fact that it's nice and simple, the lettering and the actual text 'Never forget, never forgive'.

I like the street art in the picture above, it's of the back of a street sign with graffiti on it. The actual sign was done on paper then pasted onto the wall, I've seen quite a lot of street art done this way and thought this was a really good way of doing street art because it's quicker to put up than spray painting (and therefore a better way of not getting caught by the authorities!) and also the artwork will be more accurate because the artwork is done in safety of your own home!

The sheep on this picture is also done on paper and pasted onto the wall. I don't know why I like this piece, I just thought it was cool!