Paris 2011

On my MUN trip to Paris I took some really nice Night time shots.
The effect was created through the use of flash and a slow shutter speed of 1/4 or 1/2.

Comparing 3 Paintings

In my current IWB assignment we had to annotate three paintings, they had to have some sort of connection.

I chose three paintings of nude women from Rembrandt, Elvira Bach and Henri Matisse. It links back to my studio work as it is linked to my theme FREEDOM. Basically what I am looking at here are the differences in the portrayal of freedom of showing a woman's nude body in the different artists' styles.

By Elvira Bach

By Rembrandt

By Henri Matisse

I still have to fotograph my book pages, which I will do on the weekend. 

Peter Beard

As part of this months's IWB studies I researched Peter Beard, a famous fotographer.
He uses, as a method to extend his art and differentiate his used media, his own blood to accentuate and decorate pages in his journals. An example above...

Autumn in Berlin 2011

I love autumn in Berlin. I consider myself an "autumn child" as I am born in autumn and I love rain and the luminous orange red yellow colour scheme.
These fotos I took in the Tiergarten, a massive Park in central Berlin.

I might use the colours and the landscapes as insipartion for a future studio project... Coincidentally the colour scheme is quite similar to my typical colour scheme that dominates most of my studio work...

In this foto of the couple walking through the Tiergarten, the morning mist and slight fog is still visible in the distance and it created a mystical romantic atmosphere.

I am quite obssessed with reflections on any kind of surface, and here once again I loved the geometric angles the reflection of the tree in the lake created.

FREEDOM??

I got very inspired last night and decided I might choose

FREEDOM

as my "theme word thing"...
My mannequin for example ties in to the word under restriction of women's freedom of appearance... Since I also have those fotos i took this summer, where my friend is throwing a chair in the air, it represents the freedom of setting the chair free out of its tied state to the ground by gravity, its static, boring existence. These I will develop into a studio project of its own, however I am also interviewing friends on their ideas and first thoughts at the word FREEDOM which is partly personal research, and partly i might build it into a separate video project.

my chair fotos are at home, therefore I experimented a POTENTIAL STENCIL PROJECT with the picture of the provocative graffitti man which I took in paris. i wont put him infront of the wall of writing, but i might make stencils of the flying chairs etc.

the quote is from the Art Biennale 2011 in Venice, i found it written on one of the walls in the Brazilian pavilion.

The Quest to Draw Naked People Which Failed

A time was arranged to meet at Campo (I was unaware). 

I call kinky dave

"Where are you?"

"Meliiiiina were reeeeeallly laaate!!!"
"oh crap ok wait for me ill meet you and we'll go there together."

i hang up. i run to piazza de spagna. 

Kinky and Gioia are frantically waving at me across the piazza.

We run down via del corso, barging into annoyed tourists, tripping on rough cobblestones, sweat gathering on our features. 

20 minutes later

We arrive at campo, nobody in sight. 

"Goddd where are theyy?"

"i dont know, somebody call them..."

............

"NOBODYS ANSWERING THEIR PHONES."

Crap.

"Now what?"

"i dont know... lets ask around..."

"what, you wanna ask where that place is where you can draw nude people?"

..... awwkward silence.....

"its our only chance..."

the Quest begins. 

first boutique

"scusi signora, lei conosce un posto o studio d'arte dove si puo disegnare degli personi nude?"

........

"scusi???" the woman turns scarlet, her eyes pop out.

kinky and me run away giggling. poor gioia.

next place. a kiosk.

same question

AWKWARD silence... "ehhh nooo mi scusi no non lo so un posto cosi..."

(the italian at this point might not be quite accurate)

we move on. 

the last flower stands are being cleaned up, they should know, they work here...

"scusi lei sa dove c'é un studio d'arte qui vicino? per disegnare dei modelli nudi?"

the man, laughs and points to his friend.

"si lui non conosce un posto cosi, nessuno lo conosce..."

the other man, very italian, mid 40s, balding grins, pensively strokes his chin 

"ehhhhhh, guarda c'é un posto d'arte qua vicino sulla via governo vecchio... maaa bohhh... se volete posso fare io il modello!"

dave's facial expression suggests panic and terror as he slowly retreats behind a lamp post.

we leave quickly.

we walk down all of via dell governo vecchio, angry, disappointed, hot and fussy. 

dave:

"guys... ok no. lets get an ice cream."

"yeahh i neeed water"

"my back hurts"

we find a gelateria. we choose. we collapse on bar stools. 

dave:

"guys? i think i might get seconds. this is comfort food."

The End.

Paint on Mannequin Project Advancement

More to come soon

Summer Project

My summer project is currently still being converted into a format that is easy to upload onto my blog, it will be done my later tonight.

Here are some pictures to preview the whole thing...

I'm actually planning on doing a second version by editing it on one of the school programs that edit videos like a video photoshop...

What I'm trying to portray is (still relating to my last project from year 12) how society changes women by giving them a fixed image.

Kos

Symih, Greece

Another Fashion Film

Fashion Film

I was reading a newspaper online and I stumbled across an article that was about a new film genre. It's called "Fashion Film" and is the new hype amongst designers to advertise their products.
I found some really cool blogs and videos that were made... 

For ARMANI

for MIU MIU

again for MIU MIU

I find them really intrigueing because i love the way they use the lighting in such a purposeful way, nothing is left to chance and also the camera angles and stories of these short films are so hooking.

Self Destruction

I took 'modelesque' pictures of myself and (in my investigation workbook) experimented with Rainer's style. I'm going to choose 4 or 5 of the best and enlarge them and repaint them to create a studio project. 

  

Painting on top of Fotographs

I found a website that shows a German art organization  called ID that organizes art partnerships with Germany around the world. 
I came across an artist who painted, drew on, scratched on to a photograph, which reminded me of waht I'm trying to achieve in my next studio project. 

http://www.id-berlin.org/ausstellung/positionen/anna-chicago/

The Breakability of Models

I had a photoshoot with my friend and will use these photographs once I'm done photoshopping them into their anorexic twin.
I will print them, in a large format, and paint over them to emphasize certain sharp edges and make the body abstract. (To be posted once finished). 

  

In Photoshop I had to clone the background wall to create an empty space where I then could space the edited thin model. I used the clone tool and liquified the model figure to change the body.