8th February update.

We are now five weeks into the extended project;

This week we carried on with our proposal forms, therefore stating our starting points/ideas for this project.

I started with the idea of taking the images and then editing them, but manually by painting and/or gluing things on top of the printed images.

I have started by looking into influences for this project; i have looked at a range of artists

Laurel True- She is a mosaic artist who has recently last year traveled out to Haiti to give the gift of art, using the rubble from the earth quake and also donated tiles. Her work is always very bright in the colours used, and also generally on a big scale of 200 ft +.

Isaiah Zagar- Isaiah is another
her mosaic artist, he was the mentor to Laurel True above. His work has had a lot of press recently, where his work has had to be 'brought' so that it could remain there other wise is work would have been
knocked down.

Natasha westcoat- Natasha is a contempary 

artist. She paints her images in small amount of detail but in in very vibrant bright colours.

“I’m inspired by the lighter side of life. Through trying times, I’ve found myself coping through art and through creating things that made me happier. Brighter subjects that brought me back to life. Now, through my work I hope to be able to do that for others. I want the viewer to feel the movement, energy, and life coming from the artwork. I want my art to force people to smile again. We all need a little sweetness. A pick-me-up when the world gets too heavy. We can’t be serious all the time. ”— Natasha Wescoat.

These artists have inspired me to take an image and then change/manually edit my image to create a very personal piece of work. I would use the colours i find with in east african art/fabrics and also the flags to 'make' my images. 

1st of February update.

We are now four weeks into the project;

This week we have started to create our first draft of our project proposals, we have started to look into how/what we will research. I have decided that i will research into African culture and also their christian religion. Although i will also look at different fabrics they use and also each countries flags to pick up ideas of the colours they use. I will then combine all three of these to inspire my images.

We also started to look at different time scales that we will have to achieve, for example we have decided how long we will have to research for, i have said that although you will be researching through out the project the first four weeks of the project will be the most important for research as you need to be inspired for your ideas. Therefore along with this i have also set myself milestones. The first milestone i plan to hit will be to have all my research done and into my sketchbook, although this will only be the research i do to inspire my ideas.  My second milestone is to have all my editing of my image to be done so that i am ready to start to mount/look how to present my work for the exhibition.

We have also learnt how to research into more detail for example, going and doing primary research for example going and speaking to people. Here i have decided that i want to go and talk to people that go/work in churches that have people of an african background.