Artist Michael Mararians

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Artist Michael Mararians

Black Daisies - Digital Image

Black daisies symbolise the destruction of innocence.

I just wanted to show my inverted daisies. I used PhotoShop for discarding the colour from my photo and enhanced the contrast in tone. I then inverted the black and white and got y black daisies. I used this format for printing the daisies for screenprint. I just enhanced it a bit more for a digital image. Here's how it turned out:

Embossing

 

I worked on an image of rag doll faces - one happy, one sad. I drew these out on a woodblock and cut them out to use for embossing on prints.

 

 

 

I tried embossing onto some of my prints

 

 I then worked back into the embossing with some embroidery.

 

 

 

 

I loved doing these.

 

 



Multimedia - Photoshop / Illustrator - Activity Book

For our multimedia class we worked on our own projects and were able to enhance our photographs etc.

I had decided to make an activity book of my images. I made jigsaws out of my photographs, made a board game and drew some pictures to colour in, along with my word search games I had already made. Here are some pictures of what I made:

 

With this board game, I left 2 of the rockets blank. The player will write in one happy emotion and one sad emotion. Roll the dice....

 

These are some jigsaw I made out of my photos using PhotoShop:

 



 

 Here I did some simple drawings to be coloured in:

 

 

 

With Illustrator I worked on an instruction manual type of how to make the paper shoes I made.

Final images to follow.

Plaster of Paris

 

I wanted to work with the material of plaster of paris like what I had used with the doll and her broken arm. I got some shoes and had a bib from my drawing project. I coated them in plaster of paris and waited for it to dry.

 

 

 One dry I started writing children's thoughts and comments onto the shoe. I chose to just do one shoe as seeing a solitary shoe gives you a feel of loneliness, possibly an air of abandonment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper Shoes

I wanted to make children's paper shoes with combining some of my daisy silkscreen on tissue paper along with children's own words on violence.

 

I first made the toe part of the shoe by mixing PVA glue and water and placing layers of tissue paper on a round object and spraying the mixture in between the layers. I then let it dry over night.

 

 

I then cut the shape in half and added tabs onto the inside.

 

 

 

I wanted to have the children's words in child like writing and couldn't ask them to write them down, as some of the thoughts are shocking! I asked some of my friends to write down the children's thoughts by using their non-dominant hand.

 

I cut out the base of the shoes from some card and also from the written thoughts. I glued the text to the card.

 

 

 

 

I then cut out the side panels and added some stitching around the edges.

 

 

 

Next, I collaged some of my screened daisies on the base of inside of the shoe base, glued the toe part to the base of the shoe and continued with gluing the side panels on too.

 

 

I then collaged more screened daisies onto the toe part.

 

 

Finally I then added a mini pom pom on the side as buttons.

 

 

Here are the soles of the shoes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research Artists

Richard Billingham


Christian Boltanski


Louise Bourgeois


Hsiao-Ron Cheng


Mariel Clayton


Henry Darger


Jean Dubuffet


Leon Golub


Aya Kakeda

Elisabeth Lecourt


Sally Mann


Grayson Perry


Psycho Buildings


Marilee Salvator


Nancy Spero


Kara Walker


Marian Sheehan


James Juliens


Anti-abuse Message

Multimedia - Video

As part of our video class, we had to make a documentary. Our group made a mockumentary! It was called 'Chicken Girl' - the bizarre art student who wanted to stand out. She regularly dressed in a chicken suit while in college.

 

Unfortunately I haven't been able to upload it here. We had it on YouTube but it had to be removed as we had used music from The Muppets and The Pixies and YouTube staff didn't like it.... :(

Photos of my doll & teddies! My first ever 'Stop Motion Movies'!!

I took some photos of a doll and used an old cot in the photos. I decided to try and make a stop motion movie of them. I'm pretty happy with it considering it is the first time I ever did one!!! My orange teddy (which I've had since I was a baby myself) made a debut in the movie!! Very impressed with his moves.

 

First though, is this song by Tracy Chapman called Behind the Wall about domestic violence. Click on this link if you want to have a listen: Tracy Chapman - Behind the Wall

 

 

 

I'll upload some of the photos that I used for this at the end of the post (there's a lot of them!).

 

I had taken a few photos out in the sun before making the doll headless!! Just put them onto a movie for practice really!

 

 

Here are some of the stills from the doll's photo shoot!