An inspired floral head dress

An inspired floral head dress

Drew Barrymore

Nasty Gal

Lana Del Rey

I really like floral patterns and prints, and as Summer comes near prints have come back in fashion. After watching the video to the song "Born To Die" by American singer-song writer Lana Del Rey, I was inspired to create something as dream-like as the video. This head dress will be used in future Lana Del Rey inspired photo shoots, which relates to one of the jars I will be creating. Lana Del Rey was one of my main inspirations for creating a floral head dress as I believe this related to the dreams element of my final idea.  The concept of the music video was thought up by Lana Del Rey and the outcome is quite beautiful. Yoann Lemoine is the director behind the video which has had many positive comments from publications such as Billboard and Rolling Stone. Yoann Lemoine is a musician himself, but most known for his creation of Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" video and Drake featuring Rhianna's "Take Care" video. The video itself is like art, and each shot works as a photograph. In the future photo shoot I will do with the floral head dress I created I would like to create a photography which is quite beautiful.

Images from http://blog.meemee.com/

Creating the head dresses

I created two head dresses made with artificial flowers, head bands, beads and super glue. I like the outcome of the piece, and will use this in a future photo shoot.

A David Shrigley inspired 'lost' poster

David Shrigley

I like the work of David Shrigley and I have researched his work in the past. After visiting his exhibition, I found this sign online again and wanted to create my own sign. I like Shrigley's lost poster because of the humour of the piece. I too wanted to produce something that could have the same effect on the on looker. Although, it is not as funny as the work of Shrigley I hoped for my audience to like it. Unlike Shrigley I based my work on a fictional character; Wally from the "Where's Wally?" books (See images below). I remembered these books from my childhood and I thought creating a sign that played on this idea of a lost Wally would stand out to the passer-by's. Shrigley made his poster very simple done in black marker pen on white lined paper. This makes the poster look more realistic, and it is not until read that we realise that this is a joke. I think making it simple also makes the details more clear, and stand out as letters are capitalized. With my poster I wanted it to look quite realistic and used scrap paper, and pen to create a paper. I used handwriting which was not too fancy, in hope that it would stand-out as real.

Source: http://blogs.ccs.northants.sch.uk/

This is the Wally character I based my work one from the "Where's Wally?" books.

My David Shrigley inspired 'lost' poster.

Source of David Shrigley image: http://www.davidshrigley.com/

Photography Editing Ideas- Felt Tips and Photography

Felt Tips and Photography

This is the work of  Minna Gilligan a 20 year old artist based in Australia. I like that the work looks quite childish, reminding me of colouring with felt-tips when I was young. I think this is effective because it looks fun. The range of bright colours makes the piece bold even through the colouring is not done neatly and white paper come through. The use of repetition and symmetry in some of her work works well to make the piece quite weird and quirky. The use of  photography and felt tips, makes the work more textured. 

Find more of her work here http://www.minnagilligan.com

Transforming my photography in Minna Gilligan

I really like the technique used by Minna Gilligan and wanted to transform a portrait photograph I had previously created into a Gilligan style work. I used marker pen and felt tips to colour the background of the image. I like the fun the colours bring to a black and white image, and I may trail with this technique in the future.

Using jars to present work

For my final piece I have decided to create jar art which is from 'Initial Idea 3'. Jar Art will allow me to recycle ordinary objects and transform it into something interesting. I will show the encounters I have had in dreams through each of the jars I create. I think presenting my work in jars allows me to experiment with something that is quite odd and uncommon to do work in. The restrictions of a jar because it is glass and safe is restricted means, I will have to work carefully to present a piece within the work.

- Joseph Cornell

This is the work of  artist and sculpture Joseph Cornell. Here Cornell has created jar art, by placing interesting objects into a jar. I like the simplicity of the work, and the range of objects put into the jars. It reminds me of the seaside and looks quite peaceful. Joseph Cornell is an  assemblage artist and considered as one of the pioneers of this type of art. Assemblage is very interesting as it puts together found objects to create works of art. I like this, and I think this heavily relates to the type of work I wish to create. Looking at Cornell's work has inspired me to continue with this idea of found art, and I think I will use this idea along with other techniques to create eye-catching dream jars.


Joseph Cornell: http://www.josephcornellbox.com/

- Heli Miikkulainen-Gilbert

Design by Heli Miikkulainen-Gilbert find work here.

I like the staining of the glass, so when light reflects on it, it reflects the colour. Although, the objects placed in these jars are house-hold goods, it has shown to the diversity of what jars can do. I really like the jar with the candle inside. The glowing of the light inside the orange stain jar looks great.

La Revanche du Crocodile ("The Crocodile's Revenge"), 2011

Juliette Joseph (Grenoble, France)


I really like this piece. Using a box Juliette Joseph has created a story through the piece. The miniature cans hanging with string from the top of the box works well with the theme of the box. I like the wall paper of the box, which is scraps pieces from a book. It goes with the quite vintage look of the box.

Lewis Powell, 2011
Juliette Joseph (Grenoble, France)

This piece looks quite shrine like. When I look at the piece it's quite intriguing, as I look at the religious connotation within the box such as the cross and rosemary. Although this is not a jar I like it because a box also have constraints to where you can work within. Looking at this has given me ideas into how to decorate my jars, and having a mixture of hanging objects and objects on the sides and floor of the box looks great, and works well to make it more dimensional.

Dada Box, 2011

Juliette Joseph (Grenoble, France)


This is another piece by Juliette Joseph. This piece is quite random, mixing various objects together. I like the weirdness of the piece. I think hanging objects works well and this is something I would like to add to my  jars, so make it more diverse. The mix of photography, texts and objects makes the piece more interesting to the eye.

This work is by Victoria Roberts. More can be found here.

The work is antique which explains the brown, orange and grey colours. I like how it looks quite old and used, but has come together to create art. This piece is influenced by Joseph Cornell. As Cornell is one of the creators of assemblage, which is a type of art which brings together other found objects. Looking at assemblage, I think a lot of the work I will be creating in jars, fits this type of art as I am putting together found objects that represent my dreams into jars.

Cabaret, 2009

Eduardo R. Escobar

I've Lost My Head!, 2008
Karen Hartley




This jar is quite weird, but I like the oddness of it. I think this will suit some of the themes I have in mind for my jars. Although, the piece looks quite simple the outcome is quite bizarre and I like it.

Sunset in a Bottle, 2006

Celia Calder

This is a jar, where the side have been decorated and the inside is filled with coloured sand I like this.  I like the colourfulness of this, making it look fun and quite quirky.  

This jar has been filled with mushrooms, and although it is nothing too fancy. I think because mushrooms are quite odd objects this looks mystical.

Source: http://vragmag.com/

Photo experiment

ZOE

Once I took a trip to Madamme Tussauds I saw that I wanted to create my portrait photograph. This is quite a simple photograph first I took a portrait, then used the belongings of her bag that represented her to lay out a representation of her through objects that she owns. Similar to like in MadameTussauds, how they used clothes to represent the waxwork model, I wanted to use the belongings in she bag to represent her personality and characteristics. I then edited both images in Adobe Lightroom, them put them into Adobe Photoshop to merge both images together. I coloured her belongings in purple as it is her favourite colour and the effect it gives looks great because it look like a stencil. I think I may continue to practice with thi technique if I continue with photography in this project.

My Trip To London

My trip to London's Madame Tussauds 

The bus trip.

Morgan Freeman.

Kate Moss.

Andy Warhol.

Steven Spielberg.

Marilyn Monroe.

Audrey Hepburn.

Horror part of the museum.

Muhammad Ali.

Queen Elizabeth 1.

King Henry viii.

Stephen Hawking.

Robbie Williams.

Jimi Hendrix.

Amy Whinehouse.|

Michael Jackson.

Beyonce.

Elvis Presley.

Bob Marley.

Mahatma Gandhi.

Winston Churchill.

Margaret Thatcher.

John F. Kennedy.

Nelson Mandela.

Samuel L Jackson

In order to learn more about portraits, I went on a trip to Madame Tussauds which is a wax work museum in London. The museum was founded by sculpture Marie Tussaud who died in the 1850s. Now the museum has a range of different waxworks including that of musicians, the monarchy, infamous criminals and film stars, which generates a lot of tourist attraction. I hoped by going on this trip to see waxwork I could see a different way of creating portraits. The waxworks look realistic, and amazing to look at close-up when you are able to compare the human person and the waxwork. Although, I will not be creating waxwork, I think looking at this technique was highly interesting. It also showed me the importance of making sure the clothing fits in with the subject. The clothing that each of the waxworks wore represented their personality and how the public view them.

When creating my portraits through photography I will need to show the theme through the clothing my model wears, as costume as well as location are important when creating a photographic piece, if you want a particular theme to be transferred to the audience.