Georgia Griffiths

The painting above is my final piece for the 3 day project. I chose oil painting because it is my favourite medium and I wanted to test out a new style of painting that I was shown by the tutor. Usually I would work with more of a subtle tone and method of applying the paint onto the paper. This time I worked with more colours that I could find from observing my face, layering up the textures to give quite a rough finish. The piece is unfinished but it was a really good practice and I am quite proud of it. My research really helped me to understand the concept of self-portraits, looking at the messages beneath the skin and how aspects such as colour and composition can be used to reflect this. I was especially inspired by Egon Schiele , as his self-portraits seem very honest and display a bold defiance against conventional norms of beauty. His work is quite moving and simultaneously unsettling to the viewer, which is why it draws one into his work. I was shown a new t...

Here are some developed photographs selected from my 20 negatives. Shooting, Developing & Enlarging The process of shooting, developing and enlarging these images took me a total of 2 1/2 days at college. The most exciting part of the process was probably when the enlarged photographs went into the developer chemicals and you caught your first glance of the enlarged image in the dark. At points waiting 2 minutes for the photograph to be ready took an agonisingly long time, but it was so worth it! However there were a few photographs that didn’t turn out how I would have liked them to once they were enlarged, and there was also one that had an obvious thumbprint on it which was a shame. Even so, I have learnt so much from this project, probably more than my year of AS Photography!   Overall I really, really enjoyed this project. I especially liked the freedom of being given a film camera with 20 shots and being let loose to adventure wherever we wanted for a good 3 ho...

I was not expecting to be sculpting a whale out of a bar of soap today, but here we are! In fact, I really enjoyed it! The texture was really nice to carve with a craft knife, however the bar of soap was quite flat so it restricted me in creating the roundness of the object I was observing. I feel as though I could have also created more depth around the features of the whale in order to make it more dramatic, but of course there was a limited amount of time to create the model. Above are the objects and materials I had to hand to create the model. I feel as though this process really helped my understanding of the toy I was observing, by recreating it in a 3D format. The whole project has already given me a lot more thought and consideration towards how toys are made and the simple, yet well thought-out structure. Here is the finished model within the time that we had to create it, although I still think it needs improvement I am please with the chosen object and...

Today I was introduced to 'ice drawing'; the art of drawing with coloured blocks of ice. We were asked to create various observations of the objects in front of us. This proved very interesting as the rough blocks of ice made a very scratchy sort of texture.  To make things even more interesting, I experimented with adding soft pastels over the ice drawing whilst still wet. This gave a wonderful pasty effect and is demonstrated in all three images shown. It also worked well for adding more colour depth and texture to the image using both wet and dry materials on the same surface. I think this method is really great for capturing that childhood-like essence of drawing, especially in this project as the main focus is on toys. However, I do believe that this technique could be interesting to use on portraits or structural sketching. It would be interesting to try this on coloured paper as well for a more dramatic effect.

Over the course of this project, I managed to come up with a lot of different designs that had the function of becoming flat pack, whilst also having the right design for self-assembly. I started my research from gathering research from online resources such as Pinterest. I put together a mood board and then began to imitate certain designs that I thought were quite interesting. I began sketching designs in order to gain some understanding of how they could be put together. I then used various materials to create a small-scale design. Card and cardboard was quite a good material for my designs as they are both lightweight but sturdy enough to hold their shape and provide function. Although I was quite skeptical about this project at first, it was a good exercise for me to think outside of 2D art and look at functional designs that could also be appealing to the eye. I had never designed furniture based products before so now I feel like I can look at flat-pack self-assembly based fur...

I found this project really enjoyable. The title we were given was 'Everyday Pattern', so I decided to look into the patterns that we see everyday in nature. I did this through my own primary research by studying different leaves in particular and recording this through taking photographs and making sketches. I took inspiration from two artists: Hannah Rampley and Dorothy Tucker. Hannah Rampley creates designs of layering different plant imagery using screenprinting and stencils. Dorothy Tucker had a really interesting way of using embroidery to manipulate an image. I took inspiration from both artists that is evident in my own work, however I have combined both approaches to create an interesting final image. Despite thoroughly enjoying this project and becoming quite motivated with new ideas, I don't think I will specialise in Textiles. However I would really like to bring in certain aspects of it into my chosen specialty. I would really like to experiment more in prin...

The first rotation of the course was Illustration which was quite exciting! The project title was 'Wild'. I responded to this using a variety of ideas, but the one I liked most was the 'wild woman'. Whilst exploring my ideas throughout the three days, we had tutorials on relevant skills and techniques. For example we were given a basic introduction to PhotoShop which was good to refresh my memory and remind myself of features that may possibly help with future work. We were also taught how to screenprint, which is something I hadn't every tried before. We printed onto paper through a screen that had already been exposed with a pattern. The effect was really interesting and so I decided to use one of the prints as a base and background for my final piece/idea.  It was also really interesting to see the work that others had produced and the different ways that they had responded to the project title. I really enjoyed the project once I knew what I was doing, howeve...