georgia freeman - art foundation

 watching a live dance /drama performance and making observational drawings/sketches from them  To make an exciting start to my project, I began with watching a drama and dance group perform in the studios in college, and sketch and draw them from observation. This task was challenging to do but was inspiration I needed to start seeing how quickly I could produce interesting and...

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 collecting ideas for my final major project and looking into artists for research and inspiration In the beginning of this sketchbook, I researched many different artists, from online resources as well as in the library at college. From this I photocopied many different pages that interested me with techniques, ideas, colour schemes, patterns, textures, layouts etc that I then cut up and placed...

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 exploring using edits from the shoot in a zine format  For this next part of my development I wanted to gather the images together in a zine format that could be a way for me to display my images quickly, easily and can then be printed off on a large scale with ease...which would be an ideal way of advertising or sharing my...

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 development of selections from previous shoot in Lightroom/Photoshop  Playing around with settings and levels/hues in Lightroom and Photoshop I edited the pictures to create a series of photos of which I was happy with and could potentially develop even further through mixed media collaging/drawing/painting/editing.  A main technique that I continued to use was changing the hue of the blues in the photographs to...

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 moving over to an outside shoot environment, I experimented with how natural lighting and reflections reacted/worked with the subject  Working with Oraya again, we went around searching for different lighting situations and interesting surroundings for her to be shot in, working with artificial lighting inside shops, natural lighting in the daytime and also bright colourful lighting at a carnival, all to see how...

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 developing my pictures from the previous shoot further through drawing and editing in Photoshop  I wanted to explore portraiture through drawing again so decided to do some digital drawings, using my Wacom tablet and Photoshop I wanted to create a basic, digital outline of Oraya and then use this as a base to work with which, I could then overlay onto other drawings,...

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 exploring use of gel lighting to create coloured photographs in the studio and experimenting with different colours interacting with the surroundings and how it creates different moods  For this shoot, I wanted to experiment with how the lighting in the studio could interact with the model and what different moods/effects it could create. At the beginning, I stuck to using plain white studio...

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 exploring the use of colour/lighting in a home studio setup to capture portraits in natural lighting  From the contact sheet above from the shoot, I went through and chose my favourite selections. Importing them into Lightroom, I went on to colour correct and brighten the images, making sure to crush shadows/blacks in editing and make them look less harsh.  Then, I went on...

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 documenting people interacting with one another/objects/doing daily tasks through drawing/continuous line drawings I used a black biro to do the majority of these drawings as it was a quick, easily accessible medium to use when drawing people out and about. It also gave a continuous line thickness that made the drawings appear very consistent. To experiment further, I would like to try different...

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 for this, I took the mark making I made before when listening to music and pictures of the shoot with Natalie with the light interacting  I feel like the most effective edits were the lighter edits where the colours were brighter and had a white backdrop instead of dark.  This particular edit reminds of neon lighting-I could explore this in the lighting exhibition...

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