16/10/2008

Had sculpture this morning, Marylin showed us a bit more on photoshop T.G. ! Started to do a bit on the blog, still not figured it out yet, but getting there. Photoshop not as scary as I thought it was, it's getting the time to practice on it is the problem..
Missed drawing today with the drawing woman, (because of sculpture) will have to go to life drawing tomorrow instead.
Tried using black ink on the sand paper jigsaw but it was unsucessful, so used black oil paint, that used too much, so used good old black polyeurethane paint, just right ! Left one piece blank in the middle. Used ultramarine blue acrylic paint on the bottom half of the jig saw, I hope to drip red ink into the blank piece of jigsaw , then have it dripping off the bottom of the jig saw. (I know this sounds confusing, that's because it is !) Might put a picture of BB in the middle of it , just to get the ball rolling.

15/10/2008

French curves proved to be unsuitable, so had to draw it using tracing paper and freehand, it took all day, I stuck it to the wall after, now what ? Help !!!!!!!!
An idea came to me last night about making a jigsaw out of mirror, I will see if the glass factory are able to do it.

14/10/2008

Continued editing our video today, spent time on the mouse today, feel a lot more confident about the editing process now.
Making a jigsaw is not as simple as I originally thought it would be, the pieces are/have to be very precise, even though they appear so random.Once I had the sheets of sand paper stuck tpgether, I sectioned it off into 2 inch squares, to aid the drawing process.I bought some french curves to draw the wavy bits.

13/10/2008

13/10/2008

Finished of our seminar with Aine, a.m.
Carried on constructing my puzzle out of the jigsaw pieces, I am trying to construct something that it's not meant to be. My point? I am making the jigsaw an actual puzzle for the viewer to try to make sense of for themselves, rather than having a predetermined "picture" of what it is meant to be, I think it makes it even more of a puzzle. Stuck it to the wall afterwards with hot melt glue, it looks well.
Took twelve sheets of sand paper, and stuck them together at the back, I will make my own jigsaw from them, and afterwards, mI hope to make my own jigsaw from an 8x4 mdf sheet, it should be good fun!
The Bush image has got me thinking about the big brother thing again, Iam thinking about sticking loads of images of BB around the college, in reference to the surveilance society we live in.

Missing peace

10/10/2008

Came in for an hour, had a cousins' wedding to go to.
Had an a4 sheet, stuck a piece of jigsaw to it (with the bush image on it) and underneath I wrote the caption " missing peace".