As I said in my previous post “keep a look out” for our next collaborative piece featuring moi (Tina Webster) and the loverly Helen Shaddock.
Well here it is! The above shows a montage of how the art work came to me a few weeks ago and how I went about adding some rather wacky colours and some linear action to the piece.
I will be posting this and my new piece to Helen this week. I hope she likes it!
I mentioned in my post about The Drawing factory that me and a friend were hoping to do a similar activity where we each produced a piece of half finished art work and then post it the 403 miles from Glasgow to London so that the other person can finish it off.
Well, we are a couple of months in to our exercise and I wanted to show you what myself and Helen Shaddock have been up to.
The 2 images above are the first compete pieces we produced collaboratively. I received the 1st piece from Helen in March this year. It came to me as a lovely Indian ink drawing which also included collage. I then added the crazy cuts outs and the pencil/pen marks to create texture.
The second image is the one that I worked on initially. I used collage taken from magazines to create the repeated triangle shapes found in the work. Helen then painted the background a mid tone grey and added white lines.
Keep a look out over the coming months to see what else we come up with. The image below is my next piece from Helen that I will be working on. It’s exciting times!
Helen Shaddok one of my talented friends from my art school days is currently exhibiting her work in a solo exhibition held in Glasgow.
Helen is a fine artists and studied at the prestigious Glasgow School of Art on their Fine Art: Sculpture and Environmental Art degree. Her work is a dynamic and diverse mixture of performance art, installations and drawings. You can see more of her work on her new website www.helenshaddock.com
Her latest exhibition is called Schema and the theme behind the work “addresses the human need to make order out of chaos and understand the forces around us” (Helen Shaddock).
The exhibition will run from the 6th April to the 1st May 2010 and is being held at Che Camille, Floor 6, Argyll Chambers, 34 Buchanan Street, Glasgow,
Scotland G2 8BD.
If anyone hasn’t seen Fantastic Mr. Fox yet I say you read this and then watch the trailer straight away! It’s that good!
Fantasitc Mr. Fox is the lastest film by Wes Anderson and boasts a host of stars such as George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Michael Gambon, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson to name but a few.
The film is based on Roald Dahl’s original novel and the entire film has been created using
stop motion animation. This process is a rather laborious way to animate but the results are truly “fantastic”.
The use of colour and lighting creates the feeling of warmth and familiarity and the attention to deatil is everywhere in the film from Mr.Fox’s study (based on Roald Dahl’s very own) to the patterns on soft furnishing, wall paper and clothing.
The sound track to the film is also pretty good ranging from The Beach Boys to the “Boggis, Bunce And Bean” song by Alexandre Desplat. There is also a track by our very own Jarvis Cocker (Pulp) which you can have a little jig to!
The film inspired me so much that I created the above illustration after watching it!
It was my birthday back in March and the fantastic
Top Left Design took me and the team (and some other tree huggers) to Go Ape. It was a fantastic 3 hours spent clambering around the death defying tree lined obstacle course (and also a good team building experience for the Top Lefters!).
We went to the new Black Park Go Ape center which is one of Go Apes many giant tree obstacle course around the UK.
We were all strapped up in our harnesses and then taken off to our training ground before our session began. Once we had mastered the “closed and opposed” technique we were all allowed to go bananas in the trees.
Here are some pics to prove we all a great time monkeying around!
It was such a laugh and it was great to try something new and exhilarating. One of the scariest, yet best bits, was the massive swing we had to make into a giant cargo net. Amazing and so funny at the same time!
Take a look at what Top Left Design had to say about our bit of tree action too.
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