Dehanka Waddell- My Dog Sigh- Level 4 work Shop

Local Portsmouth artist, My Dog Sighs, showed us what he does for a living. He takes used and discarded items and recycles them to make his artwork. In the workshop he gave us the opportunity to do the same, we had the task of walking around Portsmouth, looking for waste items which could be potential  pieces of artwork. Whilst walking around Portsmouth I found a discarded plate in front of a block of flats and the image above is my final outcome. The acrylic painting of a tetraodontidae (puffer-fish) was places back into the location found. Then I started playing about with the display of the artwork, I placed it in plant stems found near the block of flats.

 

Image of plate back in location found. 

Monique Burke - Giraffe

I decided to have a look at Giraffes for the Research Methodology project. My 5 words were hungry, curious, tall, adventurous and friendly. I experimented using exaggeration and a variety of media, such as fineliner, ink, watercolour and acrylics in order to achieve my final outcomes linked to my 5 words.

 my sketchbooks and experiments on loose sheets.              

Final outcomes - series of 3

They show my Giraffe in different environments, Portsmouth, Jamaica and New york. 

My idea was to show that the Giraffe is hungry, so it travelled to different places for food (adventurous). Giraffes use their neck in order to reach food, so I exaggerated that (tall). 

My Giraffes face is very friendly and also curious, I did this to represent their behaviour.

                                                            Portsmouth - Clarence Pier

                                                                          Jamaica

                                                                       New York

George Hinchliffe - Red Eyed Tree Frog

   

George Hinchliffe - Research Methodology

Red Eyed Tree Frog

I decided to look at the Red eyed tree frog for this project a little frog with a lot of personality. I chose to focus my investigations on a range of elements from the tree frogs way of living from their motion focusing on their jumps to the role they play in protecting the worlds rain-forests. Here is a selection of images from this project as well as a link to some animations that can be found here...   

  Animations from project

Tegan Meredith - My Dog Sighs Level 4 Workshop - Hedgehog

For this workshop we had visiting artist, My Dog Sighs, showing us how we can create a piece of artwork by up-cycling rubbish found around Pompey. We were shown examples of My Dog Sighs own work to give us inspiration to go out to find our own objects to transform into a personified piece of Free Art.  

I found a piece of wood with nails sticking out from it, which I thought would be perfect for creating a hedgehog to put towards my Research Methodology project.

After painting my hedgehog, I had to return it to the staircase I found it under in the city centre - this was difficult as I was quite attached to Mr Hedgey!

Mackerel - Gabriel Olalekan

Gabriel Olalekan - Mackerel

                                                    Screen print

                                                    Screen print

                                                 Pencil drawing

                                                    Painting
                                      

 

My chosen animal was mackerel (Atlantic mackerel).

Mackerels taste so good and are an important food fish that is consumed world wide. As an oily fish, it is a rich source of omega-3 fatty acids. What I love about mackerel is the interesting dark wavy stripes they have on their back because they help me remember that stripy protein is good for me.

Another reason for choosing mackerel is because I can easily buy it and store it in the freezer, then get it out anytime, research and explore it closely. I wanted an animal that I can have easy access to.

Anna Tromop - Moose

Spending six weeks getting to know the moose seemed like a natural choice, as it is a massive, humorous and largely underestimated animal, that also reminded me of home. Through my research, I have learnt a great deal about its life and living conditions, and about how it differs from what we’d normally percept. Also, along with the constant growing of urban areas in both Scandinavia and Northern America, it’s living conditions are constantly shrinking, resulting in animals wandering off into new territory. 

The largest member of the deer family is constantly on the move, licking salt of highways, getting stuck in apple trees or parking their calves in peoples back gardens. They are very curious animals! Yet, it is the traffic accidents that you hear the most about. Moose collisions alone costs Norway about 25 million pounds every year, and the population is growing. 

You might be lucky enough to glimpse one, although most times, 

the traffic signs will have do make do.

Else van den Hooven- Ostrich

I wanted to research an animal that I knew little of beforehand. The ostrich is an animal, which many people don't really think of and most of all don't understand. It's rarely a favourite animal, but after this project it became one of mine. Ostriches are known for buring their heads in the sand, which means avoiding danger. "Human ostriches" always avoid problems. This is one thing I wanted to set right, because the Ostrich is that one animal that does not avoid any danger. Instead they are very extrovert, protective, and great fighters. On top of that they are not afraid to show what they are capable of. Additionally it never really had an important position through history; yes, the feathers were used in fashion, but the ostrich itself was far in the background. Also they have been walking on earth longer then most animals, which should give the animals more power, but sadly it did not.  Through my research work I wanted to give the ostrich the position it deserves. My five words were Nomadic, Survivor, Protective, Curious and Extrovert. I worked alot with symbolism & patterns within this project, and I explored the extrovertness with Op art and Pop art. For my final product I made a A1 poster.

Photoshop 

screenprint

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