Making monsters!

Posted: October 14, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: Year 3 Documentation | Tags: , | Leave a comment

Today I cut out a lot of different body parts and rearranged them to create weird-looking figures. I began doing this a few weeks ago, but this time I plan to use some of the compositions as starting points for paintings. Last week I made one painting of a figure who was in an impossible position and I thought that it would be interesting to do this with more unrecognisable forms. I will try to begin this soon!

Muddled-up cut-out’s

Posted: October 3, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: Year 3 Documentation | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

Making paper cut-out’s of life drawings was something that I really enjoyed last year. They were effective and looked really interesting. So far this week I have been thinking about the Reg Butler sculptures that I found and trying to incorporate the ideas into my own work. I decided to try these ideas out using my paper-cut technique and I think that it definitely has potential. I began as I did last year by cutting out the different shapes that I saw in a drawing that I made a while ago and placed them together to create a figure. It was not the best cut-out that I have ever made (some of the proportions were incorrect) but it was more of an experiment than anything. I then jumbled up the pieces to create something random. In the end the composition had a resemblance to a Viking Long ship. I think that it would be interesting to continue with this to see what creatures I could create. Maybe then I could paint or draw from them?

Hanging cut-out life drawings

Posted: April 27, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: Year 2 - Term 1 | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

As I thought that my cut-out life drawings looked more effective when on their own, I decided to make more to do just that. I made some more but this time I just cut the silhouette out of newspaper rather than using lots of different cut-out pieces to build up the layers of the body. I think that making my cut-outs more simplistic looks more engaging. I decided to hang my new cut-outs up on a line of string so that shadows can be cast behind them. I think that this looks effective as it makes the figures have a presence.