From the Toybox to the Paperbox...

Vintage Myth - Only a mint-perfect garment is worth buying. 

'If you want to think in terms of colour, you have to have imagination. If you have no imagination you will never be a good colourist. It is necessary to copy nature with imagination , this is what makes a good artist. Colour ought to be through, dreamed, imagined, this is what makes an artist!'

As Foundation Art continues and elements of life change I continue to ponder on what makes the perfect artist? What makes the perfect development stages to ones work?
The answer to both these questions is that there isn't one which makes creating and delivering work can remain and become even more challenging.

Finishing ceramics has become a blessing to me and we didn't get on and felt like a drowning in treacle most of the time. I was becoming impatient with it and would never adopt it as my future trade! The clay was ruthless, one wrong move and you where gone. The toy box represents the idea of that all the fun and games are over now and the serious work must begin!
Currently we are now looking at Paper Fashion and how that influences design and the way paper can be manipulated and worked with.
This project is more my thing as it involves looking at and using my favourite thing!
ORIGAMI!!

Working with Ceramics!!

 

 

Vintage Myth - A torn seam equals a lost cause.

Another day, Another Dollar was once said and represents how the past week has felt. Working on my sketch book but the beginnings of workings with Ceramics!! As the first part of the course winds to a sudden close I begin to evaluate my progress from where I began 3 weeks ago to where I am now. I have completed my final design work and displayed the progression and have began constructing my final ceramic piece!
Working with Ceramics was harder than I thought and began wondering and dwindling in my thoughts into how I was going to get through the phase of 'Dannn, I'm not very good at this, can I sit this one out.' I had to do it and move forward with encouraging the clay to work with me and not against me. Life goes on and I persevered with the clay and ended up using the moulds to create a progressive piece of work. I realized that there is a fine line with clay, it can easily be too wet or too dry and finding the balance is hard but easy to rectify. Overall I am enjoying working with clay and finding it a useful material to work with.
Let's just hope it doesn't explode in the Kiln!!

Vintage...
Vintage is a way of expressing yourself through recycling old goodies and transforming them into something new. (Up cycling). Vintage is seemingly determined through the age of an object, being that of 20 years old, but I feel other factors make something vintage rather than labelling everything of that era and generation 'vintage'. The term is so widely used in today's society and is seem to be processed against everyone and everything.

Personal life...
My brother and sister are both settling into Uni life and enjoying themselves and am glad that this has worked for them!!

The Design Process begins!!

Vintage Myth -  If it smells musty now, it’ll reek forever.

As the days go on and Foundation Art continues I feel a sense of moving forward with my work and learning a lot about how I work. I was told to put everything that was in my mind down on paper and I feel that this blog is about questioning my thoughts and also the ideas of Vintage and what lies behind its glare. Her wicked sights are set and I am here to unfold by opening up the truths and lies that lie within the love people call Vintage.
As the days bimble on and the Arty Adventures continue, The mind of Andy starts to wander as he makes hard work into making a machete. I found these hard to make as you have to visualise it and then at the same time collapse it and creating a net to then reassemble making sure that tabs are placed in the correct places. I feel my machete represents my sketches and the idea of Form over function! I found this process difficult but worth while and my process is displayed. Today I worked with clay as a work of forming machetes and found this process to be hard as the clay dried quickly and continually needed wetting to keep it workable. I ended up with more on my hands than for the construction process. Also I'm not a fan of when it dries onto your hands and creates a dusty feel, this happens when it dries.
Overall I am happy with how my work and the progression! I have so many ideas running through my head that I find it hard to get them all down on paper!!

Personal life...
Big news!! My Soul Sister left for University today and I became so proud that now she has finally made the big move! I am emotionally drained but I will be fine!! My brother leaves on Saturday!!

 

How weeks come and go...

Weeks come and go and this past week was no different. Lots has gone from little old confused me to a lot of laughs along the way. Firstly the ceiling above my desk is still leaking which I don't mind because it keeps me entertained but have been promised it would be sorted! *Hint Hint*.
Sketch book continues and I am beginning to love Crating and the advantages of drawing in a more 3D nature rather than relying on shading and different biro tones. I love working with different shades of pencil from 8B to 5H they all offer a different way of working.
I began looking at the bathroom and felt inspired by deconstructing and reconstruction a bath tap and a shower head. The sketches speak for themselves and have demonstrated a range of different perspectives and ways of manipulating them. Crating has inspired me to lift my work.
Artists inspire me as much as my family and song lyrics, Emil Alzamora is an inspirational artist who looks at creating extraordinary pieces of work that he often distorts, elongates, deconstructs, or encases his forms to reveal an emotional or physical situation, or to tell a story. I am fascinated by his work and felt inspired by a number of his pieces, 2 being where he takes a simple object and layers matter over the top which was finished in porcelain. This has inspired me to do it myself as I move forward to my final pieces which I am developing at the moment.

What a week it has been, not just in College but in my personal life!
People are heading to Uni and my best friends have departed to start a new life. I felt I have left a heart-print in there hearts and hope they don't forget my key principle in life! Be who you want to be, not what others want to see. Be yourself and never regret a moment in your life! I wish them every success in the future but am looking to spending a year at home with my amazing peers that are on Foundation and loving my time! Hard times ahead!! Anyhoo, Since my last post I turned 20 years old! 2 Decades guys, now classed as Vintage... Well, Vintage in Denial.

The first blog post...

Hey Guys, The past few weeks have been a whirlwind and a lot has happened! Firstly I turned down University to continue my studies and refine my skills and have a wonderful Partner!
This is my first blog which is called Vintage in Denial which is about looking at my progress through my Art Foundation, I am a lover of anything and everything vintage, the idea behind the title was that Vintage has been made contemporary and people see everything as Vintage. Vintage is classed as any object 20 years old from the day it was made.
The picture represents the idea of combining contemporary with Vintage as the shower head represents the idea of a flower and the absorption of water. I will continue to build on the image and play around different perspectives. The idea of combining the old with the new but in a new and twisted way enables me to manipulate the individual elements within!

My blog represents who I am and what I want to be.

So far at College I have looked at pottery and perspective, Also Construction and Deconstruction which involves drawing objects in different ways and manipulating them in different methods and way, also I began looking at crating which involved the drawing of boxes and drawing objects within them! I enjoyed my day and I am looking forward to the week ahead and continuing my blog!!
Guys I hope you will continue to help my build on my blog and the content that should be placed within it, I have been inspired by my tutors and Chelsea who is a big influence, she knows what works and how design is created. My best friend!