Drawing Project Part Deux

For the next step in the Drawing Project I decided to go along the same theme of working with children's clothes, and also the concept of splashing of paint and letting the wind do the work. I got some paint and mixed it with water to make it spread easier, a tray and some clothes (bibs and a dress)




Next I placed a large sheet of paper under the washing line




I dipped the clothes in paint and spun the washing line



The is was the result of the spinning

I then sprayed the paint with some salt water


I then hung the paper up on the line to dry



Next I cut out templates of clothes and placed them on the painted paper, and then cut them out



I then drew onto the cut outs. Here's some of what I came up with:



Next I hung them up onto the washing line and phtographed them







I really enjoyed this project!!!

Printing Building Blocks

I wanted to try making my own building blocks that I could print onto children's clothes. I obtained letters and numbers and printed them out. On the reverse of the page I drew out the outline of the images (to use the reverse with printing onto clothes). I rubbed one side with charcoal, placed it on a 2 inch block which I cut, and drew the outline of the numbers needed.





 I then cut these out with my woodcut tools. I repeated the process for "2006", "77" and "8"

 




Next, I obtained some babygrows and inked up the blocks with paint and a roller and started printing.

Photographs of Building Blocks

I got hold of some children's building blocks and wanted to use these to express parts of the report on Violence Against Children, 2006, Violence Against Children 2006 Report and also on a publication called

Listening to children: Children’s stories of domestic violence

printed by Department of Health & Children.
Listening to Children

" ‘normal’ – sometimes violence is seen as a ‘normal’ way of dealing with things, for example, when people use violence as discipline, or in the form of bullying or sexual harassment."

"not reported – sometimes children and adults don’t trust the authorities, or sometimes there are simply no authorities to go to when violence takes place."

“With these two hands my mother holds me, cares for me – this I love … With these two hands my mother hits me – this I hate.”

Young girl, East Asia

“Sometimes one day in prison felt like a year. But after ten days you get used to it and don’t cry so much.”

Boy, Middle East

“We need your support to stop violence against children, not just in our region but all over the world.”

Young people, East Asia and the Pacific

John Cleese on the 5 Factors to Make Your Life More Creative!

 

I came across this link to a lecture John Cleese gave in 1991 on Creativity. It makes sense and he's just brilliant anyway!

 

It's well worth sitting down and listening to. Enjoy!

 

 

 

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/04/12/john-cleese-on-creativity-1991/

 

Multimedia - PhotoShop

In the multimedia class we were shown basic functions of PhotoShop. We had to download images from Google images and combine them into an image. I chose dogs. We were then to make a repeated pattern with our image and make a wallpaper. This first image just looks like a nice pattern. The second image is a larger, upclose view of the image. You can see they are dogs.

Next, once we got used to using PhotoShop, we then had to use our own images. I used my photos of the Confessional and the 'Buddy Christ'! Again, the first image looks like a repeated pattern. You can't make out what it is. The second image is a closer look.

Here are the photos I was using:

Here I played with filters and colours etc. I used the theme from my silkscreens.

I used a comination of my own photo, below left, with downloaded images from Google images.

I had been playing with the idea of like a childcatcher capturing children's innocence, dreams and innocence. Just worked on this in Photoshop.

Exhibition by Una Spain

 

There was an exhibition held in the LSAD by MA student in Contemporary Art Practice & Media, Una Spain, November 2012. This exhibition struck a cord with me. It was based on the de-commissioned psychiatric hospital, St. Brigid's, in Ballinasloe. Before I came to LSAD I worked in St. Joseph's Psychiatric Hospital in Limerick - a very similar structure to St. Brigid's. The images in the exhibition are amazing! While I walked around I felt so emotional as the objects documented represented past lives.

 

Here are a few images I took. It was really hard not to put every photo up!!

 

 

 

This image is particularly amazing! Wedding rings -  It speaks volumes!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a link to her website, enjoy it!! Well worth checking out! Please look at the video piece.

http://www.unaspain.com/

All I can say is Wow!