My Narrative Project

My Narrative project branched off into looking at my childhood such as my first holiday to the Isle Of Man, games and playgrounds. However, over the easter my mother gave me all my cards and drawings I had done when I was a child. I also had a note writting to the tooth fairy explaining how I had just lost another tooth. So, I'm mainly basing my project on that and taking the images from the cards I had made. My main area of interest is baby building blocks regarding the number, letter and images! I am aiming to have a child like installation, baby building blocks, baby toy box and baby frame. I first started making coloured paper blocks and experimenting in verious ways in which I would like them to be layed out, last Thursday and Friday I worked with florist wire. It's was another way of experimenting with varioud mediums to portray the finished piece.

So heres a few images for you to catch up on (",)

                           My Brain- Stormings for my Narrative project

 

Cards I had made

 

Cube Structures

Urgent Letter( Taking form tooth fairy note)

Card cubes and wire cubes

 

Box for installation

 It was used to print onto the clay tile like slab with the engravings of the letter. This will then be placed into a photo frame!

This is all for now, but tomorrow I will be making a mould of a cube so I can make multiples of my baby blocks! Write soooooooooon :)

 

Project with Christy Keeney

We were given one day to make our our interpretation of someones portrait, weather it was of our selfs or someone we know. I bagan researching family photos and came across some cheeky smiles from my younger siblings. I couldn't decide between my Sister or Brother!

My sister Leia is sneaky but has an innocent pose within her photos. Its true when they say boys will be boys, Niall my brother has a sneaky, cheeky  face  in this particular photo and it had caught my eye. So I started to work from this photograph:

Clay work:


Slab Roller

Slabs of Clay

Scoring and joining of Slabs

Shaping Slabs

Coiling and extending

Facial Features, attaching, engraving and texture

I enjoyed making these as it was a new challenge for me to take on and it was a fun, quick and its interesting to learn new techniques!

 These have just finished their biscuit firing and I will be glazing this over the next few days/weeks.

Christy Keeney

Christy Keeney came to LSAD for 2 days to give a talk and demonstration about his abstract figures. Christy had a great interest in peoples features or based on characters that stood out on his travels. Some of his earlier works he concentrated on more social backrounds and random photographs of people in Belfast.

This was taken on our opening day to LSAD in 2010, I only found out when Christy arrived that he had actually made these and of course with me posing beside them ! :)

He gradually evolved his work into more absract figures like this one he demonstrated and made with us.

He had brought his own shape mould to create the shape figure

 He used a heat gun to help speed up the process! and he joined a few coils to form the head

Once the surface was evened out he then began working on the facial features

Close up view of facial expression