uhh..

well, needless to say, this blog is practically dead, nearly all my recent work is up on my DeviantArt account, but i will try to post some of them up here anyway :)

till then ^^

Wooo

DeviantArt ^^

hehe

*~* ok -so this is basicly where the bulk of my random scribblings are atm, i'll still post pics up here, butonly the ones i REALLY like; so click teh link and see my crap stuff too!

heh - if you wanna comment but cant be arsed to get yourseld a Deviant Art account, just leave comments here ^^ *~*

this is what happens when i stay up late, with a camera

random room angles of doooooom
/evil laugh

Dammit

Word verification is now ON

and no, I dont want any free porn

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

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 ^^ .

I F : Tea

This is Edodagashi: handmade traditional sweets from Tokyo.

These particular ones are Green Tea Flavoured.

Moodt Monday : Calm

it was.