BA Art and Design Week 5 Brief 1 - Multiples

Artist Research

Since the Sculpture process in 3D workshop is currently slow (Everyone in my class is doing it and only two people at a time can make the mould - messy process) I need to find other methods of making dolls.

I decided to go about doing this by researching other doll artists and their methods.

Marina Bychkova

I have always liked dolls but these are beautiful. Porcelain dolls, detailed expressions and even their limbs can be moved. Porcelain!

Dorote Zaukaite

I like how these ones a messy-realism look to them; their bodies are skinny and disproportioned like a cartoon, but the colour schemes, blotchy painted skins and fabulous "Messy" hairstyles give off a sense of realism which I really like.

Miss Clara

This is one I've researched before, for illustrative purposes; she makes dolls to use as images for illustrations. Love the idea and the cute, detailed intricate dolls.

Sasha Petrov

I like these dolls because of how unusual they are; long and disproportioned from normal body shapes, I think they look almost sultry and intricate, but also quiet creepy.

Blythe

Finally I came across Blythe dolls from Japan, and discovered that one of the reasons they are so beloved is because of how easily customisable they are.

One of the interesting features of these dolls are the eyes, which can look side to side or change colour with a mechanism at the back of their heads.

These are examples of "Neo" Blythe dolls

(The biggest body, 28.5 cm)

These are examples of "Middie" Blythe, and is considered the most commonly used body

(Middle sized, 20 cm)

Finally, we have "Petite" Blythe

(The smallest body, 11cm)

I honestly think these dolls are adorable and the middle one is indeed the body I would use.

Rebecca Cano

What I found interesting about the last artist is the fact that makes her dolls by customizing the body of Blythe dolls

I really like her style (Especially the costumes) and thought that her method was really interesting; I've been struggling on "how" to make my own dolls (Other than the sculpture mould method) and I think I would like to try "Customising" already made doll bodies. However I want to make a point of completely changing them by redoing everything, from skin, hair and clothes; I want to make them into "my" dolls/work, so no leaving parts of the previous appearance left over.

But its just an experiment, so we'll see how it goes. 

BA Art and Desgin Week 4 Brief 1 - Multiples

Sketchbook pages, progress

 

After visiting museum of childhood I compared old toys (Left: photos by me) to new toys (Right), particularly the quality of dollhouses.

 

 3D going a bit slow still making the clay sculpture, never was speedy with 3D, a bit of a perfectionist in that area, which is also my downfall.

 

The Doll Room!

 

My Favourite Pages In The Sketchbook, introducing my expanding on my chosen subject. Also I wanted to convey how I felt when I entered the doll room at the museum; a sudden shock and moment of "...Whoa..."

 

All photos are the ones I took myself at the museum

 

 

These pages described how I felt in the doll room (loved it) and how it made me want to do something on dolls even more.

 

Extra

 

Scraffito techniques: carving (drawing) onto paint on top of pastel

 

 

 

 

 



BA Art and Design Week 3 Brief 1 - Multiples

After visiting Edinburgh with my classmates and having dinner at TGI Fridays, I was convinced that I wanted to do something based on the doll room at the museum of Childhood

 

Photos of sketchbook, planning for the trip and places I was interested in visiting; such as the national museum, graveyard, castle and museum of childhood.

  

When I was in Edinburgh, I joined my classmates to visit "Mary Kings Close", which described a lot of the nitty-gritty history of Edinburgh, such as the plague and the awful living conditions for people in the closes.

Left: Planning to see the museum of childhood
Right: After my unexpected visit to Mary king's close (Plague doctor mask out of leaflets)
 

So even though I really wanted to base my project around dolls, I really wanted to incorporate something dark into the project as well.

Moving onto our 3D side of the class, we were told to create basic 3D sculptures based on our chosen themes, so we could make casting moulds out of them.

 

 

I decided to create a simplistic doll shape so I can create my own "Collection" or dolls, in this case it will be many designs, using the one body.

 

BA Art and Design Week 2 Brief 1 - Multiples

I Know I ended the final line in my last post with the word "fro" instead of "for", that was obviously deliberate because I'm such a badass rebel... and the keyboard I was using in college had stiff letters

 

Sorry about late blog, got distracted by my project

 

But for week two we were to plan our trip to Edinburgh, other than that I didn't get much progress for any of my classes.

 

However I finally brought my camera to college and created several videos for "Video Class" 

 

 

This was filmed at my college and stars my classmates and their legs, music from "Wolf Children". The idea of this video was to be like an ending to some kind of coming of age story; a nice, slow, everyone's happy and getting with their lives.

 

 

This was filmed in the sound department at college, I just liked the music equipment and wanted to make a scenery video, but I started to play around with the settings when putting it together and it turned into a dream state kind of video. Music by Bruno Coulais from Coraline.

 

 

This is a video of  a guinea named Kevin, I was babysitting him for a friend for two weeks and fell in love. I just HAD to make this video for him and his fabulousness!

Music "I'm Fat" Weird Al.

 

It was a long week because I didn't know what to do with myself, however on the Friday we finally went to Edinburgh and my favourite place was the museum of childhood, which made me decide to base my project on dolls.

 



BA Art and Design Week 1 Brief 1 - Multiples

I'M BACK!

(Hold your enthusiasm)

 

On the third of September I returned to college, our first classes being, 3D workshops, Pathways and Context (For which this blog is requested for) and Drawing... and we didn't do any! We can't start (Most) our classes properly because of projects for each class requires a trip to Edinburgh (Which will be taken on the 12th this Friday)

 

Our project is "Multiples" and the theme must be related to Edinburgh, hence we all we can do in class at the moment is research, which was exciting at first, but then it got a little boring, and kinda hard. The place i'm most interested in at the moment in Edinburgh is the "Museum of Childhood"; for one thing i believe its a place that would likely suit me and my style (Because that's something our lecturers have encouraged us to do this year; work towards our chosen pathway), and i believe it can involve a number of mutiples; the multiples of toys, types of toys, state of the toys, time from which their from and the emotions I may experience when exploring the museum itself.

 

Thursday, which covered Video practice and mixed media/textiles was the same as the day before; they both require the Edinburgh trip, however in video our lecturer showed us a short video created by David Linch called the Alphabet (It was very disturbing) and has asked us tio make our own videos of the college. In mixed media we just had to continue our research or Edinburgh.

 

The same happened on Friday when we had Painting class, except we were made to do a quiz on painting... didn't do too well. Then there was critical and contextual studies where we were given a powerpoint presentation on "Knowledge is power", it was actually quite interesting and we were talked through the timetable of the entire class for this year and i'm feeling nervous yet more confident on my essay this year... still not looking forward to it though.

 

That concludes my blog entry fro week 1

Pathways Project - Journey 4

The Finshed Pages

 

These are the official pages which I sewed into my journal for my final piece; I'm very happy with how they turned out. So happy that I was a bit disappointed with how they turned out after I printed them; slightly darker than supposed to be and all featuring a white border which I couldn't remove because I printed them on word. There was no major damage otherwise; some of the pages were missing their original edges because of the borders (which overlapped them), but thankfully none of the words of pivotal images were cut out.

 

However this is why I'm happy I have this blog, so I can show people how the pages are really meant to look in all their glory.

 

One little note I forgot to add into my sketchbook:

"Please Listen to song while reading the book, to help fully appreciated the emotions/story/themes I am trying to convey with my work, thank you."

 

And I recommend the same to whoever is reading this blog.

 

 

http://www.clockworkquartet.com/doctorswife.html

 



 

 

Unfortunately I am Aware That I have missed out a line between these pages, I myself am very unhappy about this; but I did not discover this until after I had printed everything and was sewing together the final piece the night before the hand in. Hence I had no time to fix this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another wee mistake: "Say" should be "Pleading"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope you all enjoy reading this (and are not too disturbed), I am very proud of my work and hope to use illustration more for my future projects.