Art Foundation: Fine Art

Today has been quiet a long day. I had several ideas on what to do with the items (cassettes', chess figures and CDs)  I chose.
I already thought about cutting the chess figures in half to have a look at the negative space, as well as looking at the shadows the chess figures would cast. I am extremly interested in how the shadows can be such beautiful pieces of art work. The artist who gave me the inspiration is KUMI YAMASHITA (japanese artist), who has done some wonderful art work using shadows:

As I am interested in shadows and architecture I thought I create a mixture of both. I looked at a building in Tokyo, Japan the Fuji Tv Headquarter because it has an interesting shape with the sphere in the centre. It makes it look very modern as well as quiet sophisticated.

I decided to use the CDs to create the sphere of the building, as its very interesting. I used the CDs because it can reflect light with its shiny side, so it could give me a nice effect. I cut the CDs in the middle and than stuck them onto a CD with a glue gun.

I also used the chess pieces and white tack to make a mould. I put the chess piece into the white tack, than later on removed it so I could papermache it to get the form of it. I used paper that had text on, as it was in the recycle bin, to create a pattern of black and white. I than removed the mould and was left with the chess piece that i imprinted and paper mached.

Images of chess pieces and their shadows:

I placed the pieces randomly first, than I noticed what great shadows there were and made it look lik the shadows are that of people instead of chess pieces.

Today I did a lot of thinking on what my next steps will be for the Fine Art work.

Art Foundation: Contextual studies

Yesterday's lesson with Graham was very interesting. People look at paintings and see some as bizarre others at being colourful or just being pretty. In that lesson however I experienced a deep understanding of the message a painter would try to put across in his/her painting.

Everyone sees things differently, it is more or less seen as a fact.
The painting "The Ambassador's Secret" painted by Hans Holbein the Younger (German born) in 1533, shows many things such as the objects in the background being on two levels. There are two different globes - terrestrial planet and celestial, which can indicate heaven and earth. Also the two men in the painting show a scientific (men on the right) and a religious (men on the left) approach, which can all be indicated by their style of clothing as well as the objects there are.


Furthermore the most important thing that most people do not notice when looking at an image from the internet or just an image is that there is a skull right in front of the two men. Hans Holbein skewed (anamorphic perspective) the image of the skull, (which is something that people do today with software like photoshop) and made it so that it can only be seen at an 27 degree angle. If that was not enough well this might be... looking at the left hand corner of the painting which is also a 27 degrees angle, the image of Christ on the cross can be found.

 Christ in the upper corner...

Skull that can be seen at the 27 degree angle

This painting is really interesting with all the hidden images. 

Art Foundation: Visual Studies

Visual studies, I have been using an everyday tool to create a piece of drawing that covers most of an A1 piece of paper. I used black charcoal to create a background to draw on. It gave off a good effect and also made me concentrate on different ways to make the drawing look 3D. The item i chose was a potatoe peeler.
A Swedish sculptor Claes Oldenburg used everyday objects and created them in such a massive scale.

Art Foundation: 3D Design

In this subject area I have been experimenting with different materials one of them being copper. In the image below you will find a square copper plate that has letters indented into it. This gave me an idea on what I was able to do with that test piece and also see if there are certain things I might be unable to do, such as rolling the complete copper plate into the roller without loosing the indentions.

Also as my main project will be concentrating on architecture I have been looking at both positive and negative effect between nature (natural) and man made things (e.g. buildings). Using this I made a few items that look like spider webs, by using cocktail sticks and string. The idea came from different structures that are in nature, and these were inspired by spiders and their webs.

Copper piece:

Test models- spider web idea:

Bus Shelter (AS work)

This is a bus shelter that I designed and improved on. I used an existing bus shelter that was located in Curitiba, Brazil. I created the bus shelter so it would function mainly in the city or town. Due to that I had to indentify certain problems such as graffiti, vandalism, people who live on the street etc.

Images: Google Sketch up images of the bus shelter and the final model of my bus shelter...

Image of the bus shelter in Brazil:

Model of SIKH TEMPLE (A2 work)

The model was desinged by me because today in the 21st century there are many people who do not understand or care much about their culture or religion. Many reasons could be given, and the main ones I focusd on were that there needs to be a bit of modernisation to attract the younger generations.(images show completed model!!)

PSP special packaging

This is a special PSP packaging that was created by me at school. The idea was to make a new more attractive and theme based PSP, as Nintendo were releasing ther new products. the competition was rising and so to give the upper hand for Sony, I started to develop a special PSP packaging. The images you see are that of the final product.