Body Form and Pattern.

        In my Fine Art class I have been told to produce a piece where the form of the body is linked with pattern. To begin with I started researching various artist.

    Sylvia Gi

This is an artist ho definitely caught my eye. Sylvia Ji bases her work on the Mexican ‘Day Of The Dead’ Festival. I adore this festival and the South American culture is so fascinating, I love how she has linked her work to this.  I have noticed that a lot of her work is based on red as a main colour but even if it is a different colour the piece is still based on that certain colour there is not really a mix at all.

This artist I found to be very inspirational. He creates piece of famous figures that have been shot; however, the twist is that he makes them out of empty bullet shells to symbolize their deaths. He heats the metal with a blowtorch to get the image to show and to create the shading. He doesn’t use a stencil or anything this is all free hand. His work is so fascinating to me and I find he gives across a very strong message with wonderful pieces of art.

        This is the first sketch I produced as a template for my final piece. 

This is where I started placing the drawing pins. This process took a lot of time and patience and all in all I used 1000 drawing pins.

          The next step was sticking the filter tips into the pins and staining them to look like nicotine. I used ink to stain the tips therefore the piece doesn’t smell of smoke and I can also get more precise colours with ink rather than used filters. To make the colour I used brown ink mixed with yellow to give it the light brown colour and simply added more dark brown to add tone to the piece.

   

This is my final outcome for my Body Form and Pattern project. I do like how this has come out because you can see who it is and I’ve tried my hardest to get all the shading right. You can however see the pins underneath where I cut off the excess card so I think this piece would be better in a frame. For this reason and the reason that it is a very fragile. If I could change one thing about this piece then I would of done it on a much bigger scale in order to get more detail into the image however this would of taken too much time and I would of got past our deadline and the material expenses would be high.

Summer project.

    Our summer project was called 'Matchbox Museum' which is where we had to literally do what the title says, make a museum with matchboxes. I based my purpose on life and the progression. I used my friend Lisa Jane Hillman as my inspiration (this explains the name of my blog because Lisa has always been involved in my art as a model or something. My middle name is Marie and hers is Jane, hence When Marie Met Jane). Anyway, I chose Lisa as my inspiration because when I met her she was a fun loving 7 year old that only cared about sweets and pranks. Now she is a mother two, home owning, engaged, full time job, and money-earning woman. 

    I also had to choose a film and our specialist area to do a matchbox on. 

    This is my sheet dedicated to my film. I chose 'Mirrormask'. This is my favorite film and it’s about a girl who swaps lives with a girl in her drawings. She is a circus performer but she loves drawing but her drawings are dark and gloomy which I find very interesting. I find this ties in with my project because one of the quotes in the film is 'don't let them see your afraid.' I find this to be advice for life in general, is you show society you’re afraid your not going to get far you need to take everything that hits you. 

     This is my specialist area sheet. My specialist area is sketching and using pencil in general, this also ties in because this is what I love and in life you should do what you love to make he experience more enjoyable. 

   This is the first sheet of the part based on Lisa. This one symbolises when we met and our childhood. I have put neon strips on here because that is the only thing Lisa and I used to wear at that age. I've also added water balloons and mud because we used to challenge the kids in our neighborhood to a water bomb fight and it was always messy work. Out of all the sheets this is my least favorite because I didn't really have many photos of our childhood because we didn't have cameras at the age of 7.

  This is the second sheet. This one symbolises us growing up and turning into teenagers. At this point in life we started comp, wearing make up, going out then later going to college etc. this was a stressful time because of all our exams and boys started coming into our lives an just generally teenager things but in the photos you can see we're still smiling. 

This is where things start to get mature in Lisa life, this is where she met the father of her child Tommy Knight and they started building a life together. Lisa became very mature after this point, we started smoking, getting tattoos and then she got pregnant with her first of two beautiful children. Once she had given birth she moved up to Haverford west with Tommy's family. Of course Lisa and me faded a bit with this moved but I still see her all the time and talk, there's nothing that will come in the way of our friendship. 

    Life goes on.. Once they had moved they lived with relatives for a while but this is where Lisa really got everything sorted. Within 6 months they got their own house, a full time job each, got engaged, everything was finally finished they had everything they needed and then, Taya came along, my beautiful goddaughter, so now after everything she's living happily in her cozy house with her fiancée and two amazing children just getting on with life and doing a damn good job of it. I'm proud of you Lisa.

    These are my final matchboxes. Everyone links to a sheet even the film and specialist area ones. They are all about how I see life should be (I know, this project is deep).

   The first box is from the first sheet from when we were younger; there is a water balloon inside. The second is from the second sheet when we became teenagers with headphones inside. This was when music became a massive part of our lives. The third is from the third sheet. It has a tag saying 'new born' off one of the baby’s bibs; this is when she started building a family. Next is the fourth sheet when she settled down, there is a ring inside to symbolise their engagement. The fifth box symbolises my specialist area, which is drawing so there is the top of a pencil in there and the last is from the film. There is a broken piece of glass inside to symbolise mirrors and there is foil around the edges. 

      As a whole, I really enjoyed doing this project. It was so amazing looking through old photos and remembering old memories and things like that. Also it showed me actually how much Lisa has succeeded and it made me realise how much of an amazing mother she is and how much she does for her family. It was amazing to produce and I live the final outcomes.