Nonsense Drawing Project

I've just completed an assignment we were given over the Easter holidays - to do 15 observational drawings then 5 nonsense drawings composed using elements of the initial 15 images.

I chose quite a wide range of source material for my drawings to give me plenty to work with for the second part of the project. I tried to include a few things that I'm less comfortable drawing as well - larger scenes, ellipses, and straight lines.

Once I'd generated plenty of observational drawings I worked on combining them into nonsense drawings which I'd been apprehensive about but it was so so fun! I don't think there's any point in explaining or analysing a nonsense drawing so here they are for your viewing pleasure:

Artists Book - Springfield 1

Today is a good day! Finished all my work for my hand-ins and I'm really happy with how most of it looks. Now for some overdue blogging...

So I finished my Artists Book project which I'm pretty happy with. I decided that to get my idea across more clearly I should present my wooden triptych and concertina book as a backdrop to a shrine or personal altarpiece. I got this idea across in a pretty obvious but still effective way using candles and little pieces of stone and broken glass and ceramics I'd picked up from outside the house the project centres around.

 As an accompaniment to the shrine I made a little "bible" which incorporates textures from the house in a column structure. It was when I was looking at bibles for reference that I came up with the title for this project, "Springfield 1" which subverts the address of the house as a nod to bible passage titles - "John 3:16", "Genesis 1" etc. I'll do a proper in-depth post about my texture bible soon and the ideas and process behind it.

One of my favourite elements of my triptych is how it folds so neatly making it really portable. I'm really proud of how it looks and even though the construction was pretty simple, it has helped me gain more knowledge confidence in joinery.

Cartocon - Designs

It's been a busy few weeks but we've settled on a date for the window display - next Friday (the 29th). Board the hype train here please.

I thought I should post my designs ahead of that to give an idea of what I've been working on and give a sneak preview of how it will (hopefully) look.

I started by doing some designs based on a tiled wall and the shapes of the art school building around it:

I wasn't too happy with this design so attempted a variation:

I then explored my pyramid drawings further and came up with designs incorporating them into the window:

Finally I made a design based on the abstracted coat hanger shapes, incorporating red wool stretched across the window frame inside:

I sent them over to Cartocon and Nathan decided that he liked the pyramid design best, but wanted it to cover less of the window and incorporate the woolen element.

So here are my final designs:

I brought the window painting up slightly so it blocks less of the window and added in the red "wool" lines behind it which I think makes the design more dynamic. I'm really pleased with how it looks and am getting really excited to see it completed!