Reflective statement

During the study of unit 1, i learnt how to use photograph, words and even sound to record everything i experienced. For the Rough Guide project, keep drawing and taking picture is very important to develop my idea and concept. I think i will use what i have learnt about research skills in the future projects.
I think if i have more time to have a interview with audience about my works will be better. It is important to have a communicate with audience and designer.
Unit 1 also including study tasks and blog. To be honest, i have no writing habit before i use this blog. I thought it will take long time to manage. But now i think it is a good thing to keep a blog. Blog helps me to organise knowledge and information i got in these several mouths. It reminds me of what i have learnt in each technical blocks and study tasks. Not only the new technique i have learnt but also the problems i faced at that time and record how i overcome them.
However i don't think i finish unit1 very well. Every time i update my blog a little bit late. If i can post after the finish of technical block immediately. I would have more thoughts about process of each technical block.
I wish i can read more books before i writing the essay of study task instead of do some research online. Some of the writing task is difficult to me.
In conclusion, i will still keep a blog after this unit. I want to see my progress step by step.

Pre-Raphaelites

Pre-Raphealites exhibition in Tate Britain is one of our museum visit task. Normally, i am not very interesting in the painting in Victorian period. I have no idea about Pre-Raphealites brotherhood before i went to the exhibition. But i fall in love with John Everett Millais's painting immediately. 

His painting are so narrative and lively. People in the painting have their own characters and the stories were well presented. 

I was not only impressive by the skills of Pre-Raphealites brotherhood but also the avant idea of using nature views and normal story as their objects. They brought us a new area of paintings then we can appreciate painting out of religion concept.

Due to the admire of John Everett Millais's paintings i bought a book from Tate Britain. The pictures of this posts are all scan from the book.

The Blind Girl 1854-6 Oil on Canvas
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery. Presented by Rt Hon William Kendrick, 1892
This is a breathtaking painting by John Everett Millais. Colour of the painting are so warm and made me feel i was in the picture and lying on grass with these two girl.

Ferdinand Lured by Ariel 1849-50 Oil on panel The Makins Collection

Above: Dante Drawing and Angel on the First Anniversary of the Death of Beatrice 1848-9
Below: The Disentombment of Queen Matilda 1849

The picture above are illustrations for books. I like the one The Disentombment of Queen Matilda. You can see all details on the ladies' face. Someone shocking, laughing, scaring and crying.

A Huguenot, on St Bartholomew's Day, Refusing to Shield himself from Danger by wearing the Roman Catholic Badge 1851-2 Oil on canvas  The Makins Collection

Another point which inspired me a lot is the fashionable colour combination in these paintings. I was wondering if John come to 21th century. He must be a successful fashion designer.

Bibliography

Barringer, T(2012) Pre-Raphaelites Victorian Avant-Grade, fig61, 109, 50, 55

 

Print CAD

irregular pattern design

This is my first time to use photoshop. It seems everyone in my class have used it before.  There are some images in my mind but i don't know how to present it and achieve it in the computer. That is the most difficult thing to me. However the staff in CAD room helped me a lot. He teach me basic knowledge of photoshop and also introduce some tools that might useful to me.    

Repeat pattern

combination of doll heads and mark making pattern1

combination of doll heads and mark making pattern2

It is very easy to forget create new layer. But i can use photoshop now. I realised the only way to learn a new technique is more practises.

                            

Fuerza Buta

I have watched a show called Fuerza Buta in Round house. The show is extremely cool. People did performs in the house like running on the wall and flying(with swing) and etc. The most impressive one is some girls swim in the swimming pool which just on the ceiling. So all the audiences can see from below. 

A special vintage knit coat

There is a vintage fair in Hammersmith Hall this weekend. This beautiful knit coat catch my eyes immediately. The man who sell this coat told me it come from Mexico. I was so crazy about this coat. It just looks like a contemporary art piece hanging on the wall. I bought it even through the price is so high. I think it is worth to buy.

Print technical block - screen print

Screen print is so difficult to control! We spent only one day on our screen print which i think the time is really not enough for us. I wanna try more colour and shape combination on the print design. But every sample seen too rough due to we don't have enough time to prepare and get know of the colour.

I hope we have more time to test different colour.

The picture above is the design for screen print. Idea come from doll head. The drawing we done in first few weeks.

The picture above is one of the screen print sample. I used technique screen add on my design. Do the blue one and yellow one separately. When blue one add on yellow one it become green. So i got three colour of the polka dots without wash it three times:))

Extreme drawing

 Extreme drawing is a very interesting unit to me. I have never done such a big scale drawing before.  Today, we work in group about eight people. We use the chair we bring to the room to make a sculpture. Once we finished the sculpture we started to draw together on a big sheet of paper.

We can draw in any angle we want and switch the position later. We can even draw overlap on each others works. Draw without limitation made me feel good. 

After we finish the first layer of drawing we start to do wrapping on the sculpture. 

It took us long time to wrap around the object. However it is really fun. And we end up a abstract big drawing with colour.