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.

Pucker and Bloat

Puckering

Using pucker makes the shape pull inwards like the photo underneath.

This shape has been puckered to -200 with a a stroke of 3pt. 

Bloating

When using the bloating tool the more you bloat it it becomes similar to a flower but then spikes appear from the center.

Free Distort

I used free distort to change the shape of the rectangle. Then expanded the appearance so instead of the rectangle being selected in selected the new shape.

First Lesson with Illustrator

Hitler's Teddy Bear

We made this in the first lesson we had on illustrator. We made it by making different shapes colouring them and putting them together to make the teddy bear shape.

Evaluation

Evaluation

 I originally was going to create a Andy Warhol style portrait of myself but I got half way through making it and really didn't like it. During the project I did struggle a lot because I had never had any previous experience with Photoshop and I found it quite confusing and difficult to figure out. But after a few weeks I got enough basic skills using Photoshop to figure it out. When I came up with my book cover idea I thought very simply because I didn't understand Photoshop very well. Mandy had previously taught us how to use a brown paper effect which is a image covering another and change the opacity so you can see the photograph underneath. I used this technique but I made my own overlaying picture. When making my overlaying picture I found various different photographs of things I liked I changed them all to black and white because I prefer darker colours. Then I cropped them into different sized triangles and fitted them together like a jigsaw and I used the brown paper technique to change the opacity of my overlaying picture so you could see a photograph of myself underneath.

Action Plan

Action Plan

If i was to continue this project I would totally change my book cover even though I really like my final on. I would take a more artistic approach and use my artists research more to achieve this. If I did a second book cover I would want to make it more artistic. for example I would use the portrait of myself in acrylic paint and scan it into the computer and merge it with a picture of myself to give it more of a painting feel instead of mostly been done with Photoshop. I think I would be able to complete a good second book cover within 4 or 5 weeks in the graphics class.

jonathan yeo

 In the early 1920's while recovering from Hodgkin's disease Yeo taught himself to paint. He became know in the 2000's because of his lifelike portraits of famous actors, comedians and politicians. People like Dennis Hooper, Rupert Murdoch and actress Minnie Driver sat for Yeo.
In 2005 London's National Portrait Gallery held his painting of Erin O'Conner. All Yeo.s paintings look very lifelike this is why I like them.

Rosa Fedele

 Rosa Fedele
Fedele does her work in many different medias such as pencil, charcoal, conte crayon and pastel. But she prefers to do most of her work in oils because she thinks they are more classical.