Dewy decimal system

This is a dewy decimal system processes and experiment I used, where I took my name and created a number sequence from the letters of my name which is Luke, which comes out as 332.5, where L is the 12 number in the alphabet, where I then added the 1 and 2 to make 3 because when the number is of two digits you add the two numbers together like U is 21 so I added the two number digits together, which in term makes 3, K makes 2 because it's the 11th number, where 1 add 1 makes 2 and the E makes 5 because theirs no second digit to add, which makes the number sequence 332.5

 

I then went to the UEL library and selected 3 books using metal rods and my mind to select 3 books, where I tried to get as I could to the number, where the number of the three books, where 331.8 because the library did not have a selection of books with a number code of 332. any number, this in term lead me to the book topic of the trade union, which I did not enjoy coming across at the time, but it was the hole point of the experiment to create a text and image drawing based around the topic of the three books.   
 

I then researched the topic trade union on Google images where I found a lot of images of circle based images with drawings and text, I also found a lot of protesting images mostly to do with cuts in the economy, so I intended to create a text and image drawing with them both in mind as well as including the topic of the books.

 

After when I made the drawing I chose to include one of the titles of the three books in the drawing because I believe the text in the images matches well with the drawing in the centre of the image, where I drew a man protesting about cuts in the economy. I chose to draw a protester because the three books do have a bit about trade union members and how changes in the trade business affects them and how there wages have also been affected.   

 

I included the 20th century within the drawing because the three book all link to that time period and changes during that period.

 

The experiment did not meet my expectations because the drawing I have produced in my opinion is useless and I don't think much of it, where the man has been done all wrong, where the nose, mouth, ear and hand don't look human, but the experiment did work in a way, where I was given a topic, which I personal never would have chose to work with, where it made me think a lot about what I was producing.     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Museum of important shit drawing link

http://www.20000daysonearth.com/item/482/

Postcard from young me to old me

 

This is a postcard project, where I had to write a message from my five year old self to my 50 year old self, where it also had to link to a hauntology track, where there was 14 to pick from. The track I picked was Arthur, Birkby, Barbara Moore singers, Cuckoo.

 

I wanted to use this track because of how I felt it link to nature and  was the closes to a childish theme, which I wanted to work towards, with the drawing I drew an area of a park with a children's playground because in the message I wrote about freedom and as a child I saw the park as a place for me to explore and play, where I would be free for a short time, as I liked to get out a lot.

 

The idea of hauntology comes into play because as I grew older my idea of freedom changed and as a child I was always under the watch of an guardian telling me what I could or could not do.   

 

The message it's self I tried to link it as much to my five year old self as possible, where I hated school, loved running around and eating meat and banana's and where I could not wait to be older, which again looking back on that idea has now changed.      

 

 

 

 

 

Witches and wicked bodies British Museum

I went to the prints and drawing gallery at the British museum, where there was lots of different images on display, where a lot of them were about witches and demons. I enjoyed the exhibit because I like a lot of the prints, where I took photos of the one's I liked and have put them on the blog. I like the prints and drawings below because I like the creatures in them and the way there so detailed, where a lot of the prints where made in the period between the 16th and 18th century. 

The Magic Lantern  

This engraving was made by Jean Ouvrier after Johann Eleazar Schenau in between 1765-1767.

This print shows a temporary night-time booth for housing the spectacle of a witch being led away in chains. Schenau was a Saxon who moved to Paris in 1756 and produced genre scenes of French life and court portraits.   

Saul and the Witch of Endor

This etching was produced by Andrew Lawrence after Salvator Rosa in 1740 the white-clocked figure of the prophet Samuel, has been summoned by the terrifying witch of Endor, with her hair on end and surrounded by demons. The kneeling Saul learns of his impending defeat and death in battle.

The Witch

The Mezzotint produced by Richard Earlom after David Teniers in 1786 the witch with her upraised sword and stolen loot in basket and apron is Mad Med a Bruegelian hag so avaricious that she would even rob from hell. Hades is indicated here by the triple headed Cerebus at the mouth of a gloomy cave and the cowering demons. 

The Temptation of ST Anthony

This etching was created by Jacques Callot in 1635. This print is seen as the most spectacular prints of the seventeenth century. An overarching dragon in the sky vomits flying demons, over a vast warring landscape of sea, mountain and plains filled with smoke and mad military inventions. The cowering saint is hard to detect because he is surrounded by diabolic creatures.

 

The witchand the mandrake

 This soft ground etching producted by Henry Fuseli in 1812 is based on a passage from Ben Johson, s Masque of Queens The Mandrake wears a veil and looks up balefully at the bare-breasted witch with Muscular arms who is stroking it lewdly.

 

These are two different drawings I did of sections of some of the prints like the first drawing is of the witch in the 3rd print above, where I tried to draw the figure in good detail from the sword to her cloths. I choose to draw the witch because I believed it would be interesting to draw. 

 

 

This is the second drawing I did of a section from the first print of the lady and little girl again I intended to draw both figures very accurately. I choose to draw that section of the print because I want to see if I could transfer the expressions on both their faces to my drawing and see if I could draw their positions accurately. 

manifesto

I am an artist who likes to draw taking my time with shape and detail, where I transfer my drawings to other mediums like Photoshop, print making or even 3D work based around my drawings, where I have used such materials like clay. The main materials I use are pen and pencil to create my drawings, where I believe I am good at drawing objects in front of me like bottles and paint brushes or I would find in image on the internet, where most of the drawings I did for my foundation course came from, like I would find an image of a football club logo and draw the image by hand.

With my drawings instead of what a lot of illustrators would do is to create 2D pieces of work from there drawings like paintings, I tent to create 3D pieces of work based around my drawings like I would print of my drawings once I transferred them to Photoshop and added colour to them and then stick them around plastic cup, bottles and ceramic mugs.

As an artist I am open to different ways of working, if it’s creating sculptures like book sculptures, taking photos, drawing, creating lino and etching prints and working on Photoshop, most of the pieces of work I have created have resulted in one simple drawing like a flower drawing and then the work would come to life.

I am open to freed back from my tutors and listing to their advice about what I can do during a project, to improve on my ideas and different techniques and processes I can explore, to help improve my work and advance my thinking on a project on how to take it further and if I should use on of the techniques or processes to create finished pieces of work.

My work does include colour some of the time, if I am working on Photoshop or creating etchings or book sculptures, but I don’t add much colour to my drawings themselves, because I prefer to do the colouring throw other mediums like Photoshop.

With my artwork I am my own biggest critic, where I expect my work to keep on improving and to be good drawings no matter what I choose to draw and if I feel it’s not up to my standard I don’t like it, unless I can fix my drawings by going over the drawing in a different medium like pen to make the drawing clearer or transfer it to Photoshop and have a play around with the filters and colours to see if I can created a good image from the drawing.

One of my main weaknesses as an artist is I struggle to draw moving objects and painting because I like to draw objects and people if needed standing still so I can make more detailed drawings, with painting I prefer to colour my drawings throw other sources like Photoshop or colouring pens or pencils. I feel the main area in which I have to improve on is drawing people and being more accurate in some areas of my drawings.        

 

 

 

Pangram drawings

 

This is a pangram drawing, I did from a sentence which includes every letter of the alphabet.

 

This pangram is the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, where I did two different drawings in pen and pencil

 

national portrait CIA imperial war museum visits

  

Here are photos and drawings I've taken and draw of work on display in imperial war museum portrait gallery and CIA gallery, where I did 20 min sketches in pencil and pen of different sections within the work like the little dead boy on the floor and of some of the portraits in the portrait gallery.

The photos below are of some of the art work in all three galleries, which I liked for different reasons, where I liked the detail of the work, the colours used and accuracy of some of the work.

  

 

 

This is a series of drawings I've done of different pieces of art work from the galleries, where for some of them I drew small sections from some of the work like the two dead people on the floor from two of the images on display at the imperial war museum.   

 

At the imperial war museum I did like the work on display because of the amount of detail involved in some of the prints and drawings and I also like the darkest feel towards the work on displayed from, where it symbolises dark times of history.       

 

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Cavendish Q park We could not agree

We could not agree

 

The we could not agree show is in a car park, where their is lots of different pieces of art work on display curated by a number of artist.    

  

These photos are of some of the pieces, which I like walking around the show.

 

Wellcome collection A to Z of the human condition

At the Wellcomes collection A to Z of the human conditions exhibition, their was a lot of different objects on display like the devil figure, where at one time healers would carve out these figures and place they outside a sick peoples houses, which they believed would scare away the bad spirits, which were thought to be causing their disease, tools like this shaped the ways we think because similar techniques have been used to this day like farmers use scarecrows to scare away crows, which has shaped their ways of thinking in how to protect their crops.

The objects in the show link both art and science together like the maori tattooing, which was performed with a chisel and mallet, with soot rubbed into the open wound to provide colouring, which links both science and art together because of the process of which the technique was done, the tools used and the way with, which it would use colouring in the process to create an image. Another way in which they show this is through photography, where their are photos within the show, where photography is another form of art, where artist such as Rankin  and how science has helped to develop this form of art.

What I noticed about the exhibition was how a lot of the tools within the show has shaped the way people think today with inventions on how to improve people's life's like the goggles on display, which were created over 2000 years ago to protect wears against snow blindness. Which to this day people are invention objects, which would help with people's health.

At the display there was a lot of ways for the public to get involved with the show, in which they can write down there fears and throw it away in a bin and there's also maps of the world and United Kingdom, where the gallery asks you to place a black spot from where people have come from, which has brought human thinking and the way people think into the show, which is what the show represents.