Wednesday 15 September 2010

My attempt to blend in

I found it extremely difficult to find something to blend my object into
in the end i chose a basket of neon legwarmers.


Tuesday 14 September 2010

Here is my final piece. I feel the bright neon colours
represent my personality and are colours I wear all the time.




I covered it in paper mache so there was a good surface to stick my shapes onto.
I then made it more waterproof by adding sticky back plastic.
I then added tape to make it waterproof.
Here i covered my camera in paper.


Here i cut my shapes out of neon paper.
[Andy Warhol Camouflage][Andy Warhol Camouflage]

This are prints created by Andy Warhol his use of bright colours inspired me to change my design to neon colours.

Monday 16 August 2010

Hmmm

I've come to the conclusion that my shapes appear to abstract and its hard to tell that they are cameras I need to work on this.

Ideas

I decided to use muslin as I felt i could sew
the fabric onto the camera making it a tight
fit. Also I enjoy working with fabric and
feel it incorporates my hobbies and personality.

I used traditional colours as I felt the
shapes created appeared quite traditional so
wanted to keep this theme.


I tried out my design on material.
I used some muslin and drew around the
card shapes to create the pattern in pencil.


Here I used felt tips. This medium wasn't
the best to use as it had a very streaky effect.
I wanted to colours to almost blend together.

Ideas

Here I cut out the abstract shapes and
put them onto card to make them easier
to draw around,

Saturday 14 August 2010

The beginnings of my camouflage pattern


Here's an example of how the outlines I created appear
when filled in. It is difficult to picture my final design when
they are all in black I need to experiment with colour.

Creating the outline

Using the photocopy filter on Photoshop on the photographs
of the cameras gave me this effect. I felt this was
the best way to create the outline needed
to form my pattern




Drawing attempts

Here was my second attempt. Once id done these
I realised I didn't need all the detail I was putting into them
as my final piece will be constructed using abstract shapes.
This was my first attempt at drawing the camera
I found it quite difficult and got the perspective completely
wrong so i decided to try again at a different angle.

Wednesday 11 August 2010

5 generations of camera


The item i chose to base my camouflage pattern around
was my cameras. This was because there was a clear
range and a variety of shapes that could be formulated.
The cameras vary from manual SLR's to digital to a digital SLR.





5 items that represent me


Here are the 5 main items I would use to describe
myself that have had 5 or more generations.
Camera

Jewellery


Mp3 player

Mobile

House


Graphic \thought facility's Branding for the Design Museum


This is the Graphic Thought Facility's branding
for the Design Museum. It is an image creating by
overlaying outlines of objects. The outlined objects
are similar to Michael Craig Martins style.

Vorticism


Percy Wyndham Lewis

Percy Wyndham Lewis was an English author and painter who was the co-founder and editor of Blast. Blast is a magazine that is connected with Vorticism. This magazine was short lived the first edition published on the 2nd July 1914 and the second one a year later. In the years 19-13-15 Lewis developed a style of
geometric abstraction creating a movement combining Cubism and Futurist art which became known as Vorticism.

Below are a few examples of his work.


First edition of Blast front cover

A vorticist composition

Workshop

Timon of Athens

Vorticist composition (1915)

Red duet

Vortic design






Monday 2 August 2010

Cubism






Wartime paintings

A camouflage runway

Artist / Maker:
Kennedy, Cedric J
Place / Location
UK
Date
1942
Period
Second World War

Camouflage cooling towers

Artist / Maker:
Moss, Colin William
Place / Location
Wembley, Middlesex, England, UK
Date
1943
Period
Second World War

Saturday 31 July 2010

More examples of camouflage

United Kingdom Camouflage

Second pattern Denison smock camouflage

Multi terrain pattern

First pattern dension smock camouflage

British DPM

British disruptive pattern 1st version

British desert DPM

1984 British disruptive first pattern

1959 Denison smock camouflage