Uni - Lie Of The Land 08 pt.1

Our first university project entitled 'lie of the land' involved researching land artists and techniques they use. We were then to plan and construct a piece within a small group in nearby wooded area. I think the assignment was partly planned to be another ice breaker to get us to mingle with our class members. I missed the first session so I can't claim much credit for the ideas but it was my idea to wear the suits though which almost turned it into a performance arts piece. I was involved in a lot of the video editing and editing images ready for presenting. We're to hand in a sketchbook showing thought process and personal study etc. in December but I haven't really done much with that yet. I'll post up things from that when I get more done.

Photo Collage Looking Up From The 'Grave'

So basically we decided to dig an odd shaped grave which, completely coincidentally, turned out as a cross but we had no intentions of turning it into anything to do with religion. The idea that was pitched to me by my team was it was to be an interactive installation. Apparently you're supposed to lay in the grave and basically relax, the view from the grave was framed and it was actually really calming and relaxing. Although I wasn't convinced by the idea at first I went along with it without resistance because I felt I had no right to complain since I'd missed the original ideas meeting. As it turned out, the final result was quite a surreal yet enjoyable experience.

We had to fill in the hole after we'd taken pictures and recorded video so that when we left the area it was safe for other people.

Here are some more randomly selected photographs from the day of construction and the day the site was scouted out by my group.


It should be noted that the photographs and footage in this post may have been taken or recorded by any member of my group. As well as myself, the group included Katarzyna (Kate) Majchrzycka, Robert Maclese, Daniel Lunn and Oliver Ludlam. The girl with pink hair, Alice, was over from another group to see what we'd done and was not in our group.

Uni - Summer Project 08

During the summer before starting University this year we were sent a project to complete for starting. I assumed it was to assess our ability but as it turned out it was used more as an ice breaker within our assigned groups. We had to make a collection of ten or more very three-dimensional objects of the same type and produce a series of drawings and studies. Upon arriving at university we then presented our drawings to a small group and received constructive criticism and then critiqued the other group members work.
My collection consisted of branded drinking glasses. Here are two drawings. Please excuse the poor scan quality.

Six Beer Glasses - Pencil

Green Coca-Cola Can Glass - Coloured Pencil

I chose drinking glasses because I thought it would be really interesting to work with the refractions and reflections but as it turned out it was very challenging. It was still fun though.
Some self critique: The first sketch I feel could do with a lot of cleaning up and I'd like there to have been more contrast. I should have finished the second picture. It really hurt my eyes trying to focus my vision on distorted objects and such through the glass and I couldn't leave it and come back because I was using natural light. I would have had to set aside specific time each day if I was going to leave it and come back to it, but I had a lot of things that needed to be done ready for starting university and I wasn't able to commit specific time to this project.

Art Dump

This is supposed to be an art blog so to kick things off I'll dump a few random images here. future posts will be more structured and have better descriptions and maybe some news about what's going on in my life.

Northern Cardinal Speed Paint - Painter X

Large Headed Robot Sketch Exchange Response - Photoshop CS3
Ogre Shaman Sketch Exchange Response - Photoshop CS3
Random Guy Speed Paint - Photoshop CS3
Diver Speed Paint - Photoshop CS3
Spider-Man Bad Guy Rhino Sketchbook Page - Pencil/Marker

I'll upload some of the summer project work I did soon. Stay tuned.