Dehanka Waddell -Peacock

 

From the beginning of the Research Methodology, I knew I wanted research the peacock. People usually associate the Peacock with beauty and pride and I thought I would explore this direction before taking the project further. By researching the Peacock in depth I was able to understand the animal, both metaphorically and physically. It is a very inspirational animal which is presented throughout the media and by looking at people's opinions. I developed my concept of beauty and ugliness.

The Peacock is a very beautiful animal from the from, but once you look at it from the back it is very hideous and scary and I wanted develop this idea and combine it into one image that portrays both the beauty and ugliness of the peacock. Additionally, by looking into the fashion industry and their idea of beauty, I decided that I would make a magazine and exaggeratedly air brush my image to illustrate the media's perception of perfected beauty. Is beauty something to be perfected or is it something that comes naturally? 

My illustration for the magazine cover, and the digital air brushed version

Final Outcome

Tegan Meredith - Research Methodology - The Hedgehog

For my Research Methodology project I wanted to research hedgehogs. I found them quite gentle creatures that feature often in children's stories as well as being one of the most recognisable woodland creatures in our British wildlife.

                                         

('The Fox and the Hedgehog' stop motion animation I created with Helena Sepehr)

Through thorough research I discovered that the hedgehog is declining quickly in population due to many environmental factors, including fatal attacks from predators.

                                                 

(Created using Charcoal and Adobe Photoshop)

Hedgehogs are vulnerable animals that are only armored by their spines. I wanted to look into how hedgehogs are protected as well as how they are seen in children's story books . This lead me to look into fairy tales and how the Enchanted forest is a place where the vulnerable, innocent character gets lost and found again. 

(Pastel drawing of my interpretation of the Brother's Grimm fairy tale, Hans My Hedgehog)

(Etching of a hedgehog and his Uncanny shadow)

I was inspired by the work of Tim Burton and Dave Mckean to create illustrations that narrate the Uncanny and fear that the hedgehog faces in a world where they are weak, and may perhaps be seen as an unusual creature alone in a frightening habitat.

(Final Piece created from acrylic paint print, clay sculpture, photography and Adobe Photoshop)

Vicente O'Neill - the Spem Whale

The Sperm Whale

Minus its funny name, the Sperm Whale is one of the most mysterious marine mammals known to mankind. I chose this majestic creature because it intrigued, fascinated and even frightened me. This is a species of whale that is known to be solitary, lonely and intelligent.
This is a true leviathan. It can grow bigger than 15 metres long and can dive underwater for 90 minutes at a time and can reach depths of 10, 500 feet. The Sperm Whale has been made Famous by sightings of Mocha Dick (real life Albino Sperm whale that has had 100's of skirmishes with whalers back in the 19th century) and the fictional Moby Dick (imagined by real life whaler Herman Melville who was inspired by Mocha Dick).

I had a dream where I saw this Sperm Whale, deep in the briny abyss, open its mouth, a dark hole in the oceanic blue, and suck me in.

I would describe the sperm whale with one word: Ominous.

Nathan Lambert - Giant Panda

I based my Research Methodology project on the Giant Panda, I recently took a big interest in them due to their cute and cuddly yet lonely nature. After finding out from extensive research that the Panda symbolizes peace in China I wanted to explore that more, in which i found connections to Buddhism. Buddhism became the prominent theme to my project as well as Chinese culture, from there on the project flowed. These are a few images of the illustrations i made of a Giant Panda 

in my project, including the My Dog Sighs workshop and final piece.

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