Thomas Lamadieu

Fully digging the Sky Art by Thomas Lamadieu. The way he fits it in where the buildings are makes everything so saticefying and so exciting! I love the colours, too, they're so neutral and subtle but also really bold.

I like that the little mans fishing on the side of the building that wouldn't be a seatable surface because its the side on the upside. The illustration of the sky makes me happy, because it's a mixture between day and night and I love the cloud illustrations too!

I really love that he draws the illustrations to fit in the spaces of the housing and that the illustration fits so snug and perfectly. I also love that he kept the blue from the sky as the colour scheme for the man, too.

This is a cute one, because it is a really interesting how he's fit two men in there and they have substancial characteristics about them that makes this one more alive. Sticking to the sky theme, too, which is ever better. I love the way the buildings have been taken photo of from the floor again which he's again fit the illustrations into the negative space/sky.

I like that this includes both day and night but really subtly. The cute cat add's character to the Book Worm focus of the man and it's really pleasant, looking at the buildings and how they angle and bend. I really like that the illustrations also all fit somewhat together, with the same style and almost the same man each time with only small differences.

I adore this.I love that it waves over the entire body and makes it a live piece. I love the way he's flipped the image and that the imagery is built into the illustration (being his hair.) I like how similar it is to keatons work but it's a lot more developed and a lot more confident. 

Photography Close Up - Psychedelic 70's with a twist, FINAL 1

Out of all my photography psychedelic tryout posters, I chose this to my final one. This is because its the most eye catching of them all and makes you immediately interested. Believe it or not, the entire poster is made up of photography (that you can see in previous posts) of mine from random snaps. The block in the centre is a close up of a TV - all altered to be bright and colourful. The background is a close up of a Jackson Pollock inspired painting, that was later inverted to be brighter and instantly became more interesting with this. The TV had a white block in the centre, which is the most convenient because the quote could comfortably sit in the centre almost like it was an intentional white block put there by me. I like this one because it's really bright, the colours somehow match despite being different, the quote is confidently placed and in a convenient spot for the audience to instantly read it, the TV acts as a frame for the quote in the foreground and it's very straight to the point.

Typography through sign - FINAL TYP 1

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I have made sure that this is still classed as typography through research and; by definition "The term typography is also applied to the style, arrangement, and appearance of the letters, numbers, and symbols created by the process." by this definition it is still classified. I decided to do a sign based poster to represent diversity within the art community and even those who are incapable of certain tasks due to a disability, they're abled to communicate through art, too. I don't believe that colours have gender based implications, but I made the background a light pink to clash comfortably with the blue so that the sign would be the boldest and the focal point (without it being a 'female' and 'male' classified colour scale. However it could be interpreted that way due to the viewpoint of others.) The quote on the bottom states that 'The UK creative industries generates 76.9bn a year, £8.8 an hour equating to 5% of the uk economy.' This is the main quote that people will be drawn too because it fills the negative space at the bottom of the page. 

Sketchbook pages

I don't have many and the only justification I have for it, is that any time I've had an idea I've just Mac'd it up immidiately. But here's the pages.

The planning of quick sketching for a tagLine typography piece.

Trying out random ways to place the important tag line.

I wanted to see how the banner typography graphics piece would turn out. It looked funky so, as you can see, I Mac'd it up.

Placing so in the poster and how I could have a focal point combining photography and illustration.

Different compositions and what I could potentially illustrate.

Random nighttime sketch with an arm and a frame kinda structure for the poster.

What the illustration could be and potential meaning.

Focal tag line sketch.

Typography 2 - a banner styled poster tryout

For this one, I decided to try out a black bold focal point. I shortened a quote found on the creative industry fact site, but I don't feel that it has much of an impact (which is why I don't want to chose this as the final typography poster. I decided to draw out on photoshop the bold imagery, but it is slightly off angle and out of line. The different text types work well at making an eye catching statement and I really like the over-all posted but I think it has far too many negatives than positives.

NOTE: IT WONT LET ME ROTATE AND I APOLOGIES :(

This is the illustration of the inside of my installation, what it'd look like all set up. The wall would have a mural type place on it saying "how does it feel?" - a song reference that makes somebody contemplate the relevance of the quote. The pillows are there for comfort, the bowl in the upper centre, full of dolls heads and red water to symbolise death. The candles lit, the music would be playing and it would be somewhat like a meditation room like they do in Buddhist communities. But this meditation room with a twist, makes those comfortable with themselves, reconsider and gives mixed emotions due to their questions art surroundings.

This is the outside of the installation without the paintings on to make people question what's inside I don't think it would be neccisery to have anything but it being white, on the exterior of the box because then it wouldn't surprise anybody. I'd want it to be somewhat mysterious in the back of a room. The box raw; the box would be built from card but painted to be a white colour to symbolise purity, would stand no more than 5ft 4inches, to make sure it's compact and small which would make the claustrophobic uncomfortable adding to the feel of the experience. The door would open up like your ordinary door, but you'd have to crawl in (evidently) due to the height and the width wouldn't be overly wide, neither, probably no longer than 2 meters.

The deconstruction of what would be needed for the installation;

-many pillows; for comfort

-floating dolls heads; to contradict that comfort

-candle light; to make it seem somewhat peaceful

-incense; the make it smell like and taken inspiration form the Buddhist temples 

-paintings; to cause mixed feelings and contraversial contemplation in the mind

-light stands; to shine through the small holes pierced in the roof 

Spirituality paintings/ethics - for potential decor around installation idea

With this one, I tried to capture a very Shrigley way of working. I tried to go against anything and everything that religion uses with painting - that being a delicate brush stroke with texture and intentional line work with specified planning and structure/confidence so they can be posted as murals and a representational look of what Jesus would look like. I decided that, like in other religions with spirituality and eccentric gods and goddesses, that I could make Jesus into a simplistic, 3 headed [beast] which could be very controversial - evidently my topic. I took shrigleys intentional but not imminently noticeable, placement and used the brush stroke heavily as if it was a pen.

Another religious experimental piece - this is Buddha. It's not extremely noticeable because it's painted on leafs - but I really wanted to try out a bit of mix media and see what could happen if I painted on top of it. I did originally use a cherry from a tree as the spot on the forehead, but it wouldn't stick. I chose Buddha because it's another religion that is vastly known across the world and is a symbolisation of peace (the opposite to the Catholic/Jewish/COE religion where the bible is essentially full of contradictions, violence and segregation between skin colour, animals, genders etc.) and it would look great next too another controversial ironic piece. However, this one was more intentionally placed because Buddhism is more towards celebrating nature, peace and working with spirituality - therefore a nature piece with leaves.

Just because I wanted to try out another Jesus piece, I decided to try out a different quick 5 minute style. This is the outcome. I used multiple different chalks/pastels to get to this, barely leaving the paper to switch between them. I didn't want it to be blatantly Jesus, I wanted the audience to contemplate for a while and interpret as they will. The messiness could be interpreted as the reflection of how messy religion is, as a whole. 

The missing Jesus painting that miraculously made a resurrection just after Christmas. I was planing on a fine art painting - something similar to the ones you find in churches, but I wanted to make it more subtlety contraversial. As we all know, paganism plays a huge roll in the controversy of religion (not so much in 2016) so I decided to put a pentagram that's only faintly showing on camera, behind. This would evidently make people feel and contemplate which is the whole point of my project.

Lady Mary to go with Jesus. I'm not going to write too much about this one because it's very similar reasoning than the previous writings - but I did decide to make sure that Lady Mary wasn't looking overly healthy nor happy. I kept my painting style; the usual heavily blended and structured because I felt then it would make more of an immidiate impact on the people looking at the painting. 

Last but not least, the transformation into a woman. The female form is a very contraversial subject with the illegality of nipples, the 'slut shaming' and the anti feminist ways of many due to their belief of it not being "needed" in 2016. Massively contraversial and a subject I feel strongly opinionated on and rather personally attacked sometimes due to the insecurity around the matter! This is a representation of "YOU DO YOU." You grow, you live, you breathe and you do you - no matter what anybody says. This shows the change in the female form and at which point, typically, they can become somewhat objectified by the media, certain individuals and made to feel shamed for their natural form. I needed something that was so close to my heart on the contraversial installation or it wouldn't feel right; especially with how absolutely relevant it is, day in day out.

Sketchbook sheets