Sexuality/Comfort- Symbiosis symbol

Each person in my group had to come up wth a symbol of our contribution to the visual manifesto, like a huge collaberative drawing/pattern, so below are my experiments on how to symbolise my creature. I decided to concentrate on sexuality and comfort so bound and crawling duvet looking objects which i then simplified into the top image... a basic pattern to work with.

The second image is my first real screenprint, it was great and I plan to do many more in April..yay! Unfortunately i havent been able to get a good photograph, so i may have to scan the image instead

Looking at

I've been looking alot at brain deformations such as Split Brain (I can't remember the correct initials but I believe its ACCD or along those lines) but its when the 2 hemispheres in your brain are disconnected, therefore your speech and sight do not always work alongside each other. For example if something is seen by the right eye, the left arm can draw it, but the person cannot verbally explain the item. It shows how important the subconscious is and how much it effects our physical processes. This led on to things like agnosia (the inability to recognise objects), prosopagnosia (the inability to recognise faces also known as face blindness). Then this also led onto things such as microcephaly, which causes people born with the syndrome to have a small head..what interested me was that these people are seen as messengers from god in pakistan and are thought to bring wealth and good fortune due to there rat like appearance. So beggars steal or buy babies and children with microcephaly to make money, infact one child could be bought or sold for around $1200, so numerous children will be taken on by begging familys, often as the only source of income.

Author project..part 1

here are a few of my preliminary sketches for designing my suit based on my personal needs for survival...with my main needs being the need for attraction, comfort and being able to draw these were some ideas i came up with for the suit and the immediate enviroment for the suit.

New Flyer

Flyer for a bbc introducing show for the band Elephants. Bunch of great guys and a great band to... www.myspace.com/fullyelephants

Beeen looking at...

Megan Whitmarsh, and how she composes big pictures using lots of small images, more like icons.

Author project!

heres some of my sketchbook work for my author project. I'm trying to come up with a personal survival kit. I've been thinking more about personal comfort and what keeps me mentally well.

Half Man Half Robot!

Started a new project, on a tangent to the chair theme I was studying but still along the same lines. Using the shapes and forms I was making in my drawings of a 1937 dentist chair, but using the fact that 1937 was the year of the first sci fi convention to my advantage. By creating a narrative about a man living in Wales(Terry) becoming bored of his old tired joints, so replacing them with mechanical joints. I considered making a book for a while, but I want to first make a series of 5 images, and not restrain myself too much with a book form just yet. But I can see myself redeveloping the ideas and images into a book form. Unfortunately the story seems slightly too dark for children (yet again!). Anyway! On to the pictures of my progress so far!...Unfortunately no sketchbook photos yet.

Looking back on old work....

I was looking over some older work, and was interested in some of my old ideas, but wanted to rework them with newer things i was doing. The first thing i was looking at was some artwork i did for a friends demo a couple of years ago....



So i Started sketching some ideas out...I've recently been using collage as a sketching tool, which has been pretty useful...it takes longer than drawing but ive found that its easier to work with sometimes if my ideas are quite obscure...





Then I finally worked on this painting, its still in progress but its pretty obvious where its going.... as i only really have detail left to do...

Collaberative work...If Your Dogs Collective

Sat down a few nights ago with Rosie and Aisha and did some much needed collaberative work, to make a mark as our collective. Was really great fun, we decided on the theme Battle..and all worked on A1 sheets then passed it on to the next person. You can see me working on the piece aisha started in the first 2 pictures, I promise to get a finished photo.

New Girls..

Some new sketches of girls Ive been drawing, kind of gone back a step and taking the features into much higher detail than usual, but its been a nice change and developement in my sketchbook..

Hunterian museum

This is from a trip to the Hunterian museum, its this wicked place with all these old scientific videos and specimens, like fetus's in pickle jars and skeletons etc...its really really amazing and recommend it to anyone!I actually did a whole bunch of sketches, but my camera was being super super lame, and as I no longer own a scanner its hard to get good shots of my work....i will scan more of these sketches in soon!

fetus of a hyena

researching- tea party

Started looking into artists on brief list, and researching others i knew.
was unsure on how to approach the layout, pattern, large image, collage or repeated image. Starting to think about mixing pattern and collage with my own drawings to create a large flowing piece simalr to Chris Ofili,Peter blake and Anne Polashenki...(see below)
also maybe bringing text as pattern or merging into pattern in simlar ways to Sweden graphics.
Also looking at maps and how charlotte mann creates drawing over spaces, of what "should" be there, like the idea of using an artificial 2d enviroment.

webby thinking

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