Maiko
this is my finnished results from my 'postcards' project.
the brief was to come up with 6 designs as an advertising compain for an art supplies company; each piece ha dto be strong on its own, but also work in a seiries; each piece had to be made using a different medium; there were 5 mediums we had to use and then one of our own choice - the mediums were -
Watercolour
Acrylic
Oil Paint
Colour Pencils
Pastels (either soft[chalk] or oil)
the medium i chose was Paper, specificly Handmade papers.
the final pieces had to be the same dimensions as an A6 postcard; they could be larger - but had to be in the same proportions so they could be scaled down easily. the majority of my final pieces were A3 size.
My first ideas was to use some imagery from make up advertising for each of the mediums - eg: pencils= khol, pastels = eyeshaddow, oils = foundation etc...
i discarded the ides after i came back from japan, and instead decided to use differnt parts of the costume of Maiko (trainee Geiko [Geisha]) girls as each of the postcards.
the parts of the over all costume i decided to 'zoom in on' were:
Hairstyle / nape of neck
Facial make-up
the Kimono
The Obi
The ceremonial dance fan
the high- soled shoes - Okobo.
the final pieces:
all images copyright Gwen Sallabank 2006
Neck/ Hair : Acrylics on MDF
Obi : Watercolour paints on water board
Kimono : colour pencils on Mount board
Fan : paper pices, combined in Photoshop.
Face : Oil Paints on MDF
the brief was to come up with 6 designs as an advertising compain for an art supplies company; each piece ha dto be strong on its own, but also work in a seiries; each piece had to be made using a different medium; there were 5 mediums we had to use and then one of our own choice - the mediums were -
Watercolour
Acrylic
Oil Paint
Colour Pencils
Pastels (either soft[chalk] or oil)
the medium i chose was Paper, specificly Handmade papers.
the final pieces had to be the same dimensions as an A6 postcard; they could be larger - but had to be in the same proportions so they could be scaled down easily. the majority of my final pieces were A3 size.
My first ideas was to use some imagery from make up advertising for each of the mediums - eg: pencils= khol, pastels = eyeshaddow, oils = foundation etc...
i discarded the ides after i came back from japan, and instead decided to use differnt parts of the costume of Maiko (trainee Geiko [Geisha]) girls as each of the postcards.
the parts of the over all costume i decided to 'zoom in on' were:
Hairstyle / nape of neck
Facial make-up
the Kimono
The Obi
The ceremonial dance fan
the high- soled shoes - Okobo.
the final pieces:
all images copyright Gwen Sallabank 2006
Neck/ Hair : Acrylics on MDF
Obi : Watercolour paints on water board
Kimono : colour pencils on Mount board
Fan : paper pices, combined in Photoshop.
Face : Oil Paints on MDF
Okobo (6" platform shoes) : Soft (chalk) Pastels on specialist Paper.
Basicly i liked the way that all the pieces came put, particually the acrylic and watercolour pieces. i had some problems with the Fan and Kimono Pieces, the Fan becuase i had to the the Photoshop work on the evil Macs at uni therfore not my best job, and the kimono, because i found that my colour pencils are water soluble, and i managed to smudge a large section of the background (you can see where i fixed it in photoshop :( ). given the time, i think i would like to rework those ones, just to fix the pronlems i had.
thankee for the lovely comments so far, MichaelPanda; no the Obi is all hand painted, the Kimono and Obi are based on my own Kimono and Obi i bought while in Japan ^^ .
thankee for the lovely comments so far, MichaelPanda; no the Obi is all hand painted, the Kimono and Obi are based on my own Kimono and Obi i bought while in Japan ^^ .
posted by crazy/evil/chocoholic/crazy-girl at 3/06/2006 06:53:00 PM
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