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

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.