Evaluation for Townscape Photography

Evaluation and Annotation Townscape: Photography

Unit 2, 3 & 7 UAL

Unit 2

I really like Dan Mountford because his photos stand out because they are so different. Also I like the use of space in his photos like the building coming out of the head. I also researched Duane Michals because it’s similar to a story board and it had a lot of personality in it. They inspired me to add more personality to my photos and use more of my environment to my advantage like the trees making a pretty effect of a building.

Unit 3

The photography I researched is Dan Mountford and I would consider him contemporary. He influenced my work because I looked at how he used different pictures and made different shades and colours with them which he did with a bird house and a bush the bush made the bird house look at lot darker and added tone to it. I tried to do this with my picture of a old man smoking a pipe I added a couple of pictures of trees and various branches over the top and the effect came out really well because the old man smoking a pipe has now a really pink face and white branches throughout the north east region of his face. You would find work by Dan Mountford in a gallery or on the internet. I would put Dan Mountford’s under just plain simply photography. I would put my work under just average photography as well.

Unit 7

The different types of photos I came out with were from two different types of cameras a digital and film camera. My digital photos came out quite well I just a load of images of things around me. I also walked while taking photos and made panoramic image and layered them on top of each other so it looked like it was vibrating. I also took images at different angles so I could layer them like I did with my panoramic images. When I used the film camera it was quite a nice day so we got some really good shots but when we discovered that there was no film in the camera which was a total accident we got more shots when it was raining and a lot darker but it was good because we got a really good variation of shots.

Figure Evaluation

Figure Evaluation

3D Wire Head

I enjoyed the wire head making once I got the hang of it because when I got the jaw in I figured out where everything went and in proportions. I used the spot welder to connect everything together and used thinner wire to create more detail and I could fix them without using the spot welder so that added more detail as well. A few years ago I visit Yorkshire Outdoor Gallery and some remembered about these giant metal heads and I found out that Jaume Plesna was the artist who made them.

Life Drawing

I was really nervous about life drawing at first because I had never done anything like it before. The first drawing we did was point and line in HB and the second was point and line in pen with tone and the last one was a using willow charcoal with tone.

Printmaking – Dry point print

When we did this we etch our face with a pattern on it onto a sheet of plastic then we rolled ink on it then put it through the printing press with paper on top of it then the ink would transfer the etching of our face on to the paper we did it with different types of paper like graph paper, coloured paper and with different materials like yellow leather. But the problem with printing on the material was that the material would sometimes slip and smudge the ink if there was too much ink on it so it would ruin the print. But sometimes the smudge would come out well.

Photography

We were doing narrative photography so photos that tells a story. I researched artists like Duane Michals and Cindy Sherman. My story was Aaya running round the college campus with balloons. After we had taken the photo we went into the darkroom and developed and enlarged the images onto the film paper. I really liked using the darkroom because I have never had any photography experience before I started college.

Twonscape Evaluation

Townscape Evaluation

Perspective Drawing 

When we first started doing perspective drawing I didn't really have any previous knowledge of this topic except doing something like it in maths in high school. At first I found it quite hard because I had no idea what I was doing till Jo gave us a few basic rules like your eye line is the horizon and vertical parallel lines share a vanishing point. After a few practice runs drawing it over again and getting Matt to check it's right i finally got the hang of it. I could improve more if I practice a lot more and spent more time doing it.

Visual Studies

I did my painting from a picture of a dark alley way. We have also been doing drawings, paintigs and collages. I researched townscape artists like Frances Russel Flint which i really liked because of the brush strokes he uses and how they are a little blotchy.

Textiles

In textiles when Jo gave us the brief  for a body supported structure I had no clue what I was going to do. When I did some research I found the building in London called 'The Shard' which triggered the inspiration for the woven triangle I made out of red wool and wire so I could position them. I did research on Iris Van Herpen and Alexander McQueen .

3D Sculpture

When I made my sculpture I started out cutting up a box but then I really didn't like it so I started over and cut out the shapes of a skyline and cut loads out and painted them white and painted a cylinder white and at different angles some overlapping on each other and some sticking up higher than the cylinder.

Printmaking- Mono - Printing

I really liked this type of printing because less complicated than other types of printing we have done. Plus some of my prints came out really well some not so much became I but to much ink of the sheet of metal.

Photography

I really liked using the photographs we took and layering them and changing them because I really like some of mine like my pigeon and the old man with the pipe. I look at artists like Dan Mountford which I really liked because he took his photos and layered them to make a third photo and never used the computer or photo shop to enhance them.

Illustrator 4 weeks photo

Illustrator Photo

Experimenting

Experimenting with pucker and bloat tools

Roughen

When using the roughen tool you can either use the relative which makes large jagged spikes or absolute which tames them and makes them smaller. The detail can either add or take away the spikes. Also you can use the smooth or corner tool which does what is says on the tin and will either smooth over the edges of the spikes or make the sharper.

Experimenting

Pucker and Bloat - I puckered a rectangle to - 200 then expanded the appearance and puckered it again to -1 then it came out with this.