September 2017 - georgia freeman

Collections

By Georgia - September 23, 2017

emptying our bags/pockets and exploring collections of items

Above, I emptied a pocket of my bag and laid out the contents, I decided to lay them out neatly as I had some ideas in mind of creating uniform patterns from them later on in my development. To develop this further, I would like to lay out groups of items in the same way but that relate to one another. For example; groups of ingredients making up one recipe or 10 lipsticks or sorting a big amount of I have a very large collection of them so I decided to then develop this further through digital work and through painting.

colour palette to work with;

If I was going to develop this project further I needed to decide what type of colours I was going to include, so I decided to pick out the bright colours of the compilation and see what different tones I could create from these digitally and also with paint on paper in my sketchbook. This idea could be explored further by changing the colour scheme, I could make the whole thing grayscale and have monotone outcomes, which I explored in the first sketch displayed below. Or, I could make the colours really vivid and almost luminescent, which you can see in some of the pattern samples below also.
initial sketches;

Above, are just a few of my initial observation sketches of the subjects. You can see, I drew one with a fine liner of medium broadness, making sure all the lines were the same size/thickness. Then to vary this and explore my grayscale idea, I drew the same object but 3-D and from different angles using a thicker brush pen, then filled in some shadows with a light black ink wash. To improve on this further, I would like to explore how I can paint the objects from observations and also try to create them digitally.
pattern design

Opening my picture into photoshop, I explored creating silhouettes from my subject matter. Then developed this further by applying my chosen colour scheme above into the small samples. For example, I took the colour scheme from a train ticket and incorporated this into the pattern on the bottom left. I loved how this colour palette looked so would like to develop this more and digitally create train tickets.
overlays and silhouette edits

Above, you can see I digitally created train tickets in Adobe Illustrator, then applied them into a repetitive pattern. (making sure to chose the correct colour scheme chosen from objects) Then,I overlaid my objects from the pictures in Photoshop and went even further to cutting them out of the train ticket to add interest. To improve this, I would like to physically create a collage like the above, but using paintings, sketches and rubbings.
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Preventing An Egg From Cracking

By Georgia - September 22, 2017

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5 Word Cocktail

By Georgia - September 22, 2017

For this challenge, we got given 5 different words that we had to define and then further develop this by collecting images, movements and objects that could represent

Xanthic = yellowish

Above, I walked around the college grounds photographing things that were yellow. I took a piece of perspex and coloured this yellow with pen and held in front of my phone camera to give it that 'yellowish' tint that I was looking for. I love the subtle hint of colour it added and would like to use this in future projects and explore the idea of sensitivity of colour further.

Expergefaction =waking up, from a latin word 'make awake'

For this idea, we wanted to capture someone going through the process of 'waking' in the morning and getting ready. We did this through a series of photographs that would show a tie being done up gradually.

Blive = quickly

Here, I wanted to record the motion of someone moving, so took pictures of Oraya running and thought I'd explore the idea of slow shutter speed and having motion blur across the pictures. I added this motion blur through post-production editing in Photoshop, so to improve this in the future I'll make the shutter speed longer on my camera whilst taking the photos and see what effects can be produced that way.

Leggiadrous = graceful + elegant

One of the things that I saw which was graceful and elegant especially in the way it moved was the trees in the small woodland area. The sound was soft and quiet and the leaves were flowing very elegantly. And the leaves looked almost as if they were dancing gracefully.

Terpsichorean = relating to dancing/dancer

For this one, I got all the members of the group to walk across and do some dance moves. The more exaggerated the better. Then I edited the video to make it shorter, which as a result made it more interesting as it would entice the audience and give them a quick look at the idea but not a whole video about it. I also added the music over the top to make it upbeat and to portray a happy dance mood which I wanted to portray through the use of quick, energetic dance moves too. If I were to improve on this further I would like to explore the use of video in more depth and the types of moods you can trigger with the types of sounds/songs being played and how this might effect the look or colour scheme of a project.
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