Short post for today. Well the majority of today was spent doing some more research work in my sketchbook involving genetic traits and DNA.
After college however we had an Easter egg hunt with the Cubs. It took them quite a while to find the eggs and, unfortunately, there were a few casualties along the way. Some eggs were lost as bird food and some were MIA (missing in action). We mourn all our eggy losses.
Today I didn’t have to be in college as it was the other group’s turn to put their work up and have it assessed. This left me free to go to the cinema and watch The Imitation Game with Benedict Cumberbatch. It was so good. I quite like the idea of using numbers, maths, letter patterns and ciphers in my work so the film has inspired me in some way. Turing had a very special mind and could spot these world, letter and number patterns which helped him break the Enigma code. He was truly an amazing individual.
After this I went to Cubs where we played a lot of games with them. Not much art news today I’m afraid.
It seems that every Monday I get more and more confused. I began the day utterly clueless as to what we were meant to do even though I understood the brief – to create multiple ‘self’-portraits using objects of particular significance to us. Basically, create a self-portrait but not necessarily of ourselves – you can see my confusion?!
This meant that my first few images were just utter nonsense but once I began to get the hang of it I ended up quite liking this excercise. We were again to explore the relationship between subject and surface so that was initially my starting point until I began to get into the swing of the brief and was able to create much better planned out and quicker pieces. All in all I made over 20 different pieces today! This must be some kind of record for me!
Here are a few of my drawings from today:
All images done today
Inspired by Scouts
Inspired by the Scouts necker colours
Wearing the necker
Scouts inspired – I can’t draw left (as you look at it) eyes
National Trust inspired
National Trust volunteer
Crefftau Hogan Cymreig – My pyrography business
Hard Rock Cafe Bracelet – Amsterdam
Amsterdam holiday
Typewriter, because I’m just that cool
Typewriter inspired eye
Experimenting with creating colour
Today I continued with my video project which we were set last week. I began to piece together the photos and videos I had collected of the Cubs and began editing them into a more polished and fine tuned video. I still haven’t finished the full 90 seconds though so I will need to continue with it next Wednesday during my independent study day. I have completed a minute’s worth of footage so I don’t have much left to do. Once I have finished I will upload the video onto this site as well as onto youtube.
After college it was time for me to try and handle the Cubs again. This week we were doing an inside session where we played North, East, South, West and with the parachute with them. This allowed me to take more photos of the Cubs for my video so there will be more variety. I have also come to the conclusion that the new Cubs, as well as the older ones, are actually insane. It’s so much fun leading the sessions with them but I do think that they are all wonderfully insane. That’s kids for you 😀
Pack Pack Pack
North, East, South, West
Parachute Games
Cat and Mouse
This is them being ‘Normal’
A ‘Normal’ Leader
Today began by watching the film ‘Separado’Â by Gruff Rhys to get a general idea of the project we would be doing for the next 2 weeks:
Tell a 90 second story about yourself on Premiere. To include stills, moving images and text.
At first I had no idea what I would base my little film on so I began thinking about things that were important to me. It just so happens that I was actually wearing my Cubs uniform that day – I am an assistant leader at my local Cubs pack and would be going straight there from college so I wouldn’t have had time to change. Anyway, this inspired me to base my film on my time volunteering in Cubs as it has been an important part of my life since I was 13.
For the rest of the morning and beginning of the afternoon I began to storyboard my ideas and plan out how I wanted my video to go. I was able to work out how long each clip would need to be and the general order of the video. For the rest of the afternoon I did a large A1 painting of the Cub salute which I may feature in my main video. The main reason I did this was actually to help me experiment with colours.
Dib Dib Dib
I kept within the same colour family to make a more complimentary and visually pleasing image. I quite like the end result as it is completely different to my usual style.
That evening I began to piece together some of the things I needed for my film. I took some photos of the Cubs and a few videos as well. I still haven’t got all the clips and photos that I need so I will continue next Thursday as well. I did, however, get the permission of the parents to include their child in the film so at least I achieved one thing.
Pack! Pack! Pack!
French Cricket
Wink Murder
Looks like a cult but it’s still Wink Murder
Hogan Cymreig 