Tuesday 29 September

Urban influences is the subject I chose to look at in more detail because being amazed by what the city has to offer us. Thinking about this project I had loads of different ideas buzzing around in my head. However all this changed when my tutor escorted us outside to experience something different. My tutor then proceeded to direct us to the top of a car park to experience the city at different levels so receiving a different overview of how we look at the various environments that make up this city. This totally inspired me to look at the city from different angles to what others maybe could.
After this idea came to my mind, I decided to visit this high peek just outside of Manchester. Here you could see the whole of Manchester. I went at night because I prefer the city at night when you can see all the different coloured lights and the reflections. Some people don’t like the city at night because of the dark, even though you can see what is happening more closely, but I find it almost peaceful because the lights make everything brighter, warmer and there is reflections everywhere in the environments. I changed the shutter speed on my camera to capture movement within my photographs and to capture the light more. I know that my photographs have more of an abstract feel to them but that was part of what I found interesting because you can’t really tell what the image is but you can see all the elements of what it’s meant to be.
With all these images of Manchester at night I wanted to have more of a variety of images so I went on a visit to Birmingham traveling in a car. Taking various photographs of objects that caught my eye along the mot way. I did know that they would have a different element to them compared to the night images but they didn’t have that brightness compared to the images I took at night. They mostly just represented urban landscapes which didn’t have that wow factor that interests me. After this problem I still wanted more of a variety of images, so I went out in Manchester to a club. Taking photographs of what caught my eye that night. There seemed to have more movement in them of what I thought was in a club because when you are there you don’t notice these things, but looking round there is many elements that make the clubs interesting like the lights and mirrors. Also I used some old photographs I took in Newcastle of the reflection of the water and the millennium bridge. 

INSPIRATIONS WORKSHOP

Within this workshop we had to show and discus our work with others, then see what evidence we produced, after showing everything that I created and the idea’s to my peers. The ideas that I thought had to most potential and when they asked me what I was specialising in they were shocked, that I said embroidery because of the use of materials I was using and liked. The materials were hair gel, jelly, shot glasses and paint balloons. I wasn’t that surprised when they said that it was crazy with what materials I was using but I thought of this as a challenge to show them that you can use different and odd things within mine and their art work.

Tuesday 23rd September

Over the summer I created a sketch book which was overflowing with ideas and materials. In the summer every time I experienced something different I linked it to materials, which I thought I could use in my future art work. The materials that stood out to me the most was my use of shot glasses to represent a club I went to, another is hair gel that I used for the water and oceans I saw. Also within my work I am inspired by neon colour. So when I went on holiday with friends we went to a neon paint party and to show this within my sketch book I used a lot of uv paint plus I created uv water balloons. These materials stood out to me because I like working with a lot of bright colours and different textures.

However with these materials I knew that I wanted to carry them onwards with in my new project for example instead of balloons and making the uv was fascinating. Within my sketch book I also used jelly to represent cocktails and drinks. I know that I want to take some of these materials and techniques further in to my work.