Life of Clio

Clio * 19 * Belfast art student studying in Chester

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The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.

Barry H. Gillespie

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About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all.

Rita Mae Brown

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DRAWING

In this session we studied drawing and the basic stuff of highlighting and adding tone to a picture to give it more depth As I knew the basic stuff already it was a pretty easy session however we had to draw with our eyes closed and only using touch to draw our picture, I found this difficult as I wasn’t used to this however it showed us basic communication from our eyes to our hands is important

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Sculpture

We started this session with a simple game of pictionary much like this first week where we had to communicate with our peers by drawing pictures and not talking but this session we used play-doh as we were doing sculpture. We then went on and did a clay figure that we casted to make a mould to put in max here I created a cartoon face I liked the outcome of the wax figure however you could not see a lot of detail as the wax was so light so next time I would use different colour wax to bring out the details

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A collage I did in photoshop for chewz

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Here are some more printmaking I did

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BRUSHO

here I got a background and added brushos, I then added water to the paper and this is the effort I got, I added some more pigment to the places I thought needed more colour

I think it came out very cool and the background I did in the print session goes very well it.

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Tour around Chester

Here I took a walk around Chester and documented my every move, I found this enjoyable and a great way to see my place of study!

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Today I went around Chester taking pictures, I had a theme in mind when I was taking pictures as I wanted them to have an old abandoned type of style so I mostly focused on places that had tipped paint and plants growing around them, I then edited the images on VSCO and used very old filters to make it even more like the theme I had in mind, I like how these came out however I feel like it would benefit more if I went to an abandon house as I feel this would active what I had in mind.

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we learned the colour wheel and how to mix colours to create tone in this session, we had to go outside and get 20 leaves and put them in order of lightest to darkest and then using acrylic paint we had to match the some colour as the leaf I found this enjoy and easy enough to do I think I got the colours pretty similar We then had to made a colour wheel using the same paint, I didn't like the outcome of mine so I went on and did it in watercolour

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Christmas decorations

My thoughts on this news article.

Christmas is the a holiday almost everyone loves, a time where everyone decorate their house in traditional colours of christmas and the only time of the year where it is acceptable to have a tree in your living room, but no one ever talks about the dangers of Christmas decorations and after reading this article it is something we have to think about.

Not much different for the woman in this news article, she was getting into the christmas spirt and had her living room decorated for Christmas, however, after leaving her house for a few minutes she came home to her horror that her house on fire after a Christmas decoration had fallen into an open flame of a candle.

The pictures used in this article really open your eyes on the dangers of open flames and having such flammable decorations around your house. i feel the  author of this article really wanted to make a point with using such graphic pictures of the fire and how if we aren’t careful we will find ourselves without a house on christmas day just like the situation this woman is in.

i feel using images like this is very affective as we all can relate to having candles lit and leaving them unattended something really tragic can happen, it will definitely get people thinking.

The article also includes some Christmas Fire Safety Advice, i feel the author did good to include as it keeps people informed on what to look out for this time of year and to stay safe

I feel the author could include some more information on the situation and more interviews specially from the woman who this as happened to as i feel the audience would benefit more hearing from the woman as she would be speaking from her own experience and how she feels about it, i think this will get the message across more to people to be more careful over the holidays and to never leave open flames unattended.

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PHOTOSHOP

Today we did learned how to use Photoshop, having used Photoshop for most of my graphics in the past i found this session pretty simple for me, i created two the two graphics above by using a mixture of .pngs, textures and different blending modes, i enjoy making graphics like those as i find them a good way to visually communicate and easy enough to make.

here is another one i create in todays session, i simply got a black and white image and another image of a time line and overly it with the first image and set the blending mode to “lighten” giving it a transparent look i then flattened the image and sharpened it.

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PRINTMAKING

Printmaking was something that definitely surprised me, I’ve only done monoprint and Intaglio Printing in the past, I have never known of the  printing press before this session, I thought it would be fun to use it even know it did look pretty scary.

We first had to put this weird smelling hand cream on our hands to project them but honestly, that stuff was gross. We had a little tutorial on how to use the printing press and how to make a basic print, and we were told to have fun!

I started off wanting to make some kind of picture but quick realised that the ink was too thick to do any kind of image with it, using yellow blue and dark red i tried to make mountains but didn't really go as planned and this is what i was left with

i think it’s a really cool design and could possibly use it in the future for a poster if i added a little bit of text to it.

The result:

i then went on and did monoprint with the leftover ink, as i did it before i was pretty sure i couldn’t mess it up. this is what i came up with:

i didn’t have a plan when i went into it, i just went on drawing and somehow came out with this? I think I wanted to do a face and them smoking

I think I could’ve done the mouth area much better and I know next time to have some kind of plan so I can show more clearly 

It was a very messy and my hands were covered in ink by the end and was near impossible to get off!  

i had fun over all and as part of our task for home we have to do some potato prints, last time i did that i was very young, i know I’ll enjoy that!

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COLLAGE

The two images above is the outcome of today’s session on “collage” I enjoyed being able to just have fun with it and I’m pretty happy with the results

One the first picture I found a picture of a few building in New York and cut out the side of one of the buildings and took another picture of the American flag from a magazine and placed PVA on the back of it to make the image more interesting, I found that the American flag didn’t go well with the picture and you can’t really tell it is a collage and it looks like that’s actually how the image was might to be taken

Next time I know to use a better picture of buildings and maybe a more of a noticeable background such as flowers or trees. Over all I’m very happy with the outcome and think it’s a very cool looking imagine and I now know what I need to do to improve it in the future!!

The second image is the one I most enjoyed creating, I found myself stuck on what to do when I was handed a blank piece of paper but soon went with the flow and created what you see above, using a main imagine which was of a model I began glueing other stuff I found from magazines and newspapers such as the set of eyes in black and white going over the models face, I wanted to make it more of a ‘girly’ look so I focused on finding stuff that girls generally used. My favorite thing is the landscapes of New York at the bottom of the collage I feel like it was a nice touch and really tied the theme together

I feel there is a few things I can add to this in the future such as more text and maybe a bit more colour as I think it’s very dull

I never thought I would enjoy making collage on this course but it has definitely surprised me and I’m feeling very inspired to make more in the future!