Friday 21 October 2011

 More "3D" Drawings in my boxes! Thease are a little darker in subject matter, I do like thease images but i feel they are lacking in as much colour as in the earlier ones, i am going to do some more using the colourfull dolls shoes.....


......More colourfull box drawings...










This week I have also started embroidering onto one of the digital print tests, i have just started filling in the red of the mushroom at the moment....





Thursday 20 October 2011

Dollies shoes!









A collection of barbie shoes!

Digital Print

I have done some colour tests on my images I sent to digital print, I think they have come out really well apart from the cmyk ones, a little too yellowish green for my liking! Its so exciting when you go to pick them up from the print room....like opening a christmas present !



LAB colour
 RGB colour
   CMYK colour

Articles to read!...Kitsch Interiors!

Independent.co.uk/life-style/house-and-home/interiors  -The way we live now

/theguardian/lifeandstyle/2000/oct/28/homes   -Interiors:Strike it Kitsch

/theguardian/theobserver/2001/apr/15/features.magazine   -Festival of Britain:  Interiors

Wednesday 19 October 2011

Kitsch Deluxe

 My favorite Book of kitsch! it has it all - brief history of kitsch, icons of kitsch and my favorate part...kitsch spaces....looking at the homes of artists who are true believers in kitsch decor!.....



 The kitchen of the home of Craig Masson and Andrew McMinn



 Jim Pooke and Alan Radfords Uber glam kitsch!



 Artist Kari French's expolsion of character collection!



The Retro living of Caolyn Shrosbree and James Lowe

Colletions

This is one large scale collection! from the blog...things organised neatly...instilation by artist  Karsten Bott....beautiful!


Soasig Chamaillard

“I don’t use Holy Marie as my subject to shock a catholic public. I like to play with icons, like a [child] with his toys, to try to understand the world which surrounds me.” statement from artist Soasig Chamaillard.

Beth Hoeckel

Beth Hoeckel's inspirational collages

C.W.Wells

C.W.Wells, artist from Philadelphia creates dioramas using miniture characters, dollparts and action figures beautifully lit and photographed...beautifully kitsch!

Saturday 15 October 2011

Boxes

After a talk with my tutor I have decided to start '3d drawing'. I am using boxes of different shapes and sizes to create dioramas. I want to create miniture home scenes to display my figures/objects.







Friday 14 October 2011

Collecting things together











Sources....collecting things together to play around with and experiment.....


Also using the photogaraphs to collage...