'Make Your Mark' brief: Observational work.

I'm nearing the end of the project, and have been experimenting with more observational work, and the idea of having all the badges on one page (like previously). I've been working with mixed materials and just trying out different layouts on the page. Here are two badges in continuous line/collage. I really like both of these, I think the image on the right is stronger, with the little bit of black on white imagery.

The next two are mixed, one is all the badges collectively, and the other is a simple observational image of my hands, bringing it back to the previous project idea. I love the card outline in the first image.

This is quite a short post, but I thought I should show little bits of progress in between. I spoke to my tutor about rounding up the project, and we talked about doing little picture books, and looking at both the badges/hands idea (why I included both). I think it's a great idea and finalising both main ideas would be a good way to finish this project for me. 

3D Design: Contextual Studies Brief Part 2.

For the second part of my brief I decided to look at sculptor David Nash. I like that almost all of his works are made from the same material. Working primarily with wood the saws and often burns it to get the result he wants. This for me is a quite unusual way to work! I liked looking through his work and seeing the consistency of the material, but the ideas and processes completely changing.

I was talking about how (in my opinion) Tony Cragg's sculptures often have an organic characteristic/shape, I think David Nash also incorporates this nature in his work, but in a different way. While some of Nash's sculptures have a natural feel, I think it is more his choice of materials than the forms that evoke this sense. Often, his shapes are blunt (cubes and thick blocks). I think it is the tight layering of materials (or the appearance of this), and the towering or piled up sculptures that bring about similarities in their work, however both Nash and Cragg achieve these characteristics in different ways.