Social Media, Marketing and Blogging.

http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/
I like this blog as all the colours complement each other and the pages are clearly set out. The names of the magazine articles are clear. I would take the layout to take to my own blog as it is clear.

 http://www.art21.org/
I dislike this blog as the format isn't clear although this blog has some features which many other blogs don't offer. I would take the explore artists feature to my blog as I think it gives the opportunity to discover new inspirational artists.

http://www.artcritical.com/
I think this blog wouldn't draw in the attention of a younger audience as it's very information orientated and doesn't have a clear layout.

http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/
I like the layout of this blog as the layout is easier to view; also as you are viewing one post at a time, it may draw the attention of the viewer to read that article. The blog also offers posts on the side; I would take this to my own blog. 

http://observer.com/art/
I like this blog as the format is clear and it's informative without it being too much.

http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/blogs
I like this blog as it suggests galleries to go see, different artists work look into and what they're inspired by.  




  

Art as a Message

  Daniela Matchael 
The colour in this painting conveys a powerful message. The colour of the environment around the boy, is dark and unclean this is portrayed by the dark browns and greys. However in the distance the buildings are bright colours such as oranges and yellows; by looking into the bright distance the painting gives the impression that the boy aspires to lives there and not live in a poverty stricken town. This also applies to the contrast of the painting, between wealth and poverty. The way that the buildings are painted may suggest that, to him, all the buildings blend together; although the buildings close to him are well structured.


Pawel Kuczynski
'Love'
The colours in this painting set the mood/ message as it shows Venice at night which is known for being a historically beautiful place. This image represents the world not taking in what's around us and being taken by social media.

Transcribing Caro Evaluation

This is my evaluation for the 'Transcribing Caro' project.

I found the primary research that I collected on the trip to the YSP and the Hepworth Gallery extremely valuable as the photographs were the base of my project. I found observing the sculpture in life rather than in a picture a lot simpler since in life it is easier to see the structure, shape, and the realistic size of the sculpture.

I am happy with the primary research that I collected from the trip however I do regret not taking photos of the sculptures from various different angles as I think these would have made interesting pages in my sketchbook and I would have liked to develop them further. I did, however, do this with one particular sculpture. This was Caro's 'Childs Tower Room' sculpture, I produced a double spread studying this particular sculpture.

 

I think my research is very effective as the artists that I have researched have massively influenced my final sculpture. For example, my sculpture includes solid bright colours which is inspiration from Caro's pieces.

I have planned my sculpture by firstly designing three sculptures, then further developing my favourite one. I chose the final design as I think that it would be more interesting to produce and I could include many influences into it; whereas if I created a wall mounted sculpture of mobile sculpture, there isn't many influences that I could involve in that.

 

When making my maquette, I found the building stage beneficial to building my sculpture as I could tell which parts I may need to change or remove.

To date, I haven't had any problems in the production of my sculpture however in the ceramics workshop I decided to create the Perspex pieces, that would attach into the ceramic pole, after as this would be an easier way rather than making slits into the clay trying to achieve a perfect size.

I think I could have managed my time better throughout this project as at the deadline I had a few sketchbook pages to do. I took spent a lot of time on certain pieces rather than spacing my time out over all the project.

 

When constructing my final sculpture, a difficulty I had was that the ceramic post wouldn't be able to stand by itself on the stand. As a result of this I drilled a piece of wood to the base then glued the ceramic post to the base and wood with No Nails.

 

I found it fairly easy to assemble my sculpture as most of the pieces fit together easily.

 

I am satisfied with my final outcome as I would change a lot of it. I would change the overall layout and create a wall mounted sculpture as I think they would be more interesting to produce. I would also change the colours to more subtle ones.

 

Pinterest board- https://uk.pinterest.com/rachelbamforth/s-c-u-l-p-t-u-r-e-s/

 

Photography Workshop

In the photography workshop, we focused on paper sculptures and made our own paper sculptures.

These were my paper sculptures, there wasn't a plan when creating them although the idea for the bottom sculpture stemmed from the smaller versions we created in studio practice.

When taking the pictures we regularly changed the positioning of the lamps giving a range of angles that the light hit the sculpture from, cause a variety of shadows. 

We then played around with the settings to add a variety of colours to the pictures taken.