Print #1 (Rich Guy)

For my first people and characters print, that sadly never got to be placed on the wall, I created a lino cut out of a 'rich' guy. I carry the 'rich' stereotype across through the monocle, and a trench styled coat.

Sketching the character out onto the vinyls surface with graphite.

After using the cutting tools to highlight the lines.

With the background removed. This will allow the print to stand out more easily.

Final Prints in an assortment of different forms:

A tester print

Print with ink on.

Cleaning ink off print.

Assorted prints, on different surfaces, using different colours.

You can find my final selected prints for this image, alongside my submitted work, and here at the bottom of this blog.

Thomas.

Exhibition Aftermath

Well, the folio gallery exhibition is over, visitors have come and went. It all began at around 7:00pm, a few people turned up to look at our artwork, and I did overhear many compliments coming from them.

About 20 minutes after, the area was packed, there were at least 35 people in the folio, and it was so pleasing to see a great turnout.

About 40 minutes after, the crowd started to dissipate, and the exhibition was beginning to be over.

A very good showing, it wasn't my first exhibition, but it was definitely one of my best, something that I am grateful to have been a part of.

Thomas.

Unit Recap

For the people and characters project, all other work aside (painting etc), my main section with the character element, was that I created several draft pencil characters, which turned into final charcoal characters, to fit inside ink printed bottles, that hung on the end of the fisherman's pier. I chose to use charcoal for the final characters, because it felt that by using this medium, it sort of reflected Hartlepool's past, in terms of its industry, which was all powered by the fuel of coal, a dusty, and black substance.

Charcoal is a substance that looks a lot like coal, however comes out on materials so much better. So it worked just perfectly. As a side bonus, it gave the piece the impression of industrial pollution. ( example, a smog dust atmosphere)

My idea was to create alternate people, user a unified theme. One of the characters was of a working teenager, living back in the industrial period timeframe, and the other was of a much more relaxed teenager in today's period in history. A stereotypical teenager, with a skateboard, and long hair.

An additional character, was of a 50's female, wearing 50's style fashion and clothing, to represent the middle period in Hartlepool's history.


Thomas.

Sharon Tancredi

Sharon Tancredi is an illustrator, who produces work on people and character themes. She works in a pure cartoon style, and uses a broad range of vivid colours, in her work. I love her style, naturally to me, there is something about cartoon stylised artwork, that makes it really interesting to me. An element I tried to add into my character work, in my folio project. I aimed to be semi-realistic in my character design, but with a hint of realism.

http://www.folioart.co.uk/illustration/folio/artists/illustrator/sharon-tancredi < image reference at this link.

http://www.folioart.co.uk/illustration/folio/artists/illustrator/sharon-tancredi

Mural Painting

Today, the main part of mural development went ahead, After yesterday's initial sketch on the wall.

Me and my group, spent the majority of the day painting the base on the folio wall gallery, after going through a very large amount of paint. I personally think one more day on the paintwork, and the mural will be complete, after buying more paint though of course.

I occupied most of my time spent on the mural, painting the power station, the wall under the landfill heap, and focusing on the tonal sea. 

(Above, photos of yesterday's mural progress, which was the basis for today's work).

A great majority of the piece has now been painted out, after a very busy, and collaborative day, working on the mural for the completion date, which is at the latest Monday the 4th of October.

I will post photos of the mural, as of the date this blog was made, very soon.

Upcoming Gallery Viewing

This Thursday, after professional studies with Ben, I will be off to a closed gallery event, in the city of Newcastle Upon Tyne, along with everyone else.

The event will feature an installation by the interesting artist/illustrator, Mr Penfold, who I covered in an earlier blog.

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I am very much excited to partake in the event, and it will be an excellent way to see first hand, how a professional installation is ran, and showcased.

Thomas.

History of Hartlepool for project

A great link, discussing hartlepool's cultured history in a few paragraphs.

It is provided by the Hartlepool Maritime Experience museum, which is conveniently located right next to the university. 

This link will be of good help to my project, because in my group, we are collaborating to create an exhibition based around hartlepool's maritime, and industrial history, and future.

http://www.hartlepoolsmaritimeexperience.com/?p=The+Museum+of+Hartlepool&s=A+brief+history+of+Hartlepool

Alongside this link, I will be having an actual look around the museum very soon, taking photos, and also taking notes of key events in Hartlepool's history. I will be reporting my findings, in a new blog, that will contain photos, and a large amount of in depth research.

Gallery space

Went to our groups gallery wall space not long ago, took some photos of the available real estate. 

Will be posing our ideas soon

Thonas

Folio gallery induction

Today, as part of my new project introduction, I had a tour of the available folio gallery space in the main lobby, from Ben and Amy, and after being tasked with planning and producing work on a particular chosen theme revolving around this new topic, that would eventually be publicly exhibited and highlighted by the local press, the class was asked to individually come up with their own personal ideas, and then autonomously assort themselves into groups of 5/6 people, all with similar ideas, or picking an independent group once they had all been formed, containing those with a similar ideology, and theme.

I originally came up with the idea of using scrap materials, to form sculptures of people and characters. And after dipping into several already formed groups, and receiving in depth detail into their strategies, I decided to join one group, of 5, with a topic that interested me. This topic was based around interesting local people in Hartlepool, and also the characters of the unfortunate homeless.

Thomas.