Colour and Collage

I decided to create some more exquisite corpse images this time incorporating collage into the images and adding some colour which is something that always seems to be lacking in my work. Although I didn't go crazy with all the colours because I am still pretty hesitant about straying away from all the pastel and neutural tones, I really like how they turned out!

Exquisite Sketchbook

I decided to create an exquisite corpse sketchbook where all the pages can flip in three ways in different combinations to create wacky images.

Its going to take some time but I'm hoping to eventually fill the sketchbook.

I liked how some of the combinations looked so i decided to do some illustrations on paper.

this is two of my favourite so far

Photography Project

For this project we were asked to take a series of photos using a black and white film. They had to connect or relate to each other somehow whether it was visually or conceptually. I decided to take my photos of body art and body modifications, being in an art college I didn't have to go far to find some great photo opportunities. I really enjoyed this brief especially working in the dark room and processing the photos

Here is how they turned out (the quality isn't great here because I took these photos with my phone but I will scan them in properly when I get the chance)

These are some of the photographs:

Silkscreen

We were split into two groups, half of us in silkscreen and the other half in relief print. This will rotate after Christmas.

It was my first time working with silkscreen so I was excited to get started and learn the process. I created an exquisite corpse drawing with friends which I wanted to use for my silkscreen image. I was a pencil drawing  so I chose some areas to add some colour to fit in with the brief and also make it look more visually appealing.

These are the colour parts of the print before I added the black outlined image 

This is my finished silkscreen and I am quite pleased since it was my first time ever to try silkscreen. I had a few little obstacles along the way like the lines being to thin which meant my screen kept getting blocked. That was a bit of a pain but at least I know what to do next time and I wont make that mistake again.

Exquisite Corpse

So I never knew what this game was called so I decided to find out a little more about it. I was surprised to find out it was a surrealist game created by Andre Breton called Exquisite Corpse, I originally started out as a word game but eventually progressed into images.

'Andre Breton, Yves Tanguy and                    ' Andre Breton, Max Morise, Jeannette Ducrocq Tanguy,

Jacqueline Lamb'                                                     Pierre Naville, Benjamin Péret, Yves Tanguy,

                                                                                   Jacques Prévert'

Combining Creative Crazy Minds

Humour requires a lot of imagination and creativity. Children are bursting with imagination and are constantly coming up with crazy scenarios, imaginary friends and can create imaginary worlds and places. Remember how fun a big cardboard box could be when you were a child.

I began to think of some games I used to play as a child to spark some ideas. The one that came into my head simply involved a piece of paper and a pencil. The first person started of by drawing an image at the top of the page then folding it over and letting the next person continue the image without knowing what the first person had drawn.

My housemates and I gave it a go and these are the results:

Funny People making Funny Art

So we got a new brief, we had a choice with this one. There were two options: Protest or Humour. Both very interesting topics but I think I'll chose humour and although the pressure to be funny might be a bit of a challenge I'll give it a go.

I started off with a brainstorm and then went on to research some artists that create humorous works to get some inspiration from people who were successful at creating work that people would find humorous.

Aled Lewis

Toy Stories

Mixing creativity and humour is something Aled Lewis has done cleverly in his work. He shows how a dialogue box with a witty caption can change an image into something funny and humorous.