The Beach

Fairytale Brief

I'm not sure if Cecile ever got the image but oh well, it was only a week's work anyway:

Collage

We've spent the last week doing collage in Photoshop. At first I felt restricted because it's hard to keep in mind all the source material available - all the images I have scanned in are tucked away in neat folders and I can't have them spread in front of me all at once like I normally would. I like how collage produces an image determined by what source material you have (or don't have). I would normally use collage as experimental development and find it hard to form concrete ideas. Hence the images I have produced are led by aesthetics and a 'feeling' rather than a moral/message.

The images produced are inspired by the Guardian's Grayson Perry article 'What I know about women'. I thought it was a piece of text very open to interpretation; chock full of wonderful sentences to blow apart and explore. If I'm honest I'm not sure about the result: I think I was a little too determined to use certain images in my pieces just because I'd spent so long digitally cutting them out. I'd have liked to produce a wee system map or flow chart - depicting what, I'm not quite sure.. So it's not quite the image I had in my head (there were more dismembered limbs), but meh, it's collage.

..I've just realised I hadn't meant to leave that arm (against the diver) in the first image.. muhh

Older stuff

A bit of a mixed collection from the last many months..

In a sappy mood

Made me cry :(

An Eye For Annai

Jon Klassen + Dan Rodrigues

Also, I'd quite like to buy this: The Three Robbers

It costs a tenner. I almost wish I had kids to justify the purchase..

Poor sheep

So Flash is once again experimented with (apologies for quality of jpeg), now to get back to painting... How I should enjoy the process but in reality it's all getting bogged down and frustrating. And the studio is a lot colder than the computer room :(

Putting off going into Uni just yet..

Katie Kirk - made me chuckle