Reinventing the Ordinary - First University Project!!!

So I have been in Cardiff Met now for about 2 months. I feel like we've been very slow getting into the course, compared to art foundation which was really full on, but there has been so much to get used to such as living in halls, and getting back into that creative way of thinking! I am glad now though that we have a project to focus on!

For the first 2 weeks we did some very intensive drawing which gave us different exercises to try such as timed drawings, not looking at the drawing and using different media.
We have also just completed our workshops in print and stitch.

From the National Museum of Wales - Drawing without looking at the page.

My lexicon of marks

Botanical Drawing

Portrait drawing. Created by overlapping drawings while the model rotates, each sketch lasted 2 minutes

The brief for the project is 'reinventing the ordinary' which is so open you could literally apply it to anything. My ideas for the project started off by writing down some of the first things that came into my head:

Changing something. Changing something from what people are used to seeing. If you reinvent something, is the original thing you changed still there somewhere? What is ordinary? Ordinary means different things to different people. What some people are used to may not be what other people are used to. 

I thought that all these things actually relate to drawing as everyone draws in different ways and styles and have their own quirks. There is not one set way of drawing any more, which allows everybody to be unique!

I want to 'reinvent' or develop my drawing style. I will do this by using a photograph and drawing it in many many different ways. So in effect I am also reinventing the photograph!

This is the photograph I am thinking of using, I took this when I was travelling in Italy in the Cinque Terre, I chose this photograph as it was my favourite place in Italy!

Here are a few sketches and smaples that I have already started.

These are my stitched samples, I have produced using fabric scrap, bonda web and stitching

This was done using a screen printing method and procein dyes

Cardiff Met - End of year show

I went to the Cardiff Met end of year show last week, and it was AMAZING!! Everybody's work looked so professional, and gave me tons of inspiration!! These were just some of the postcards of students work, as we weren't aloud to take pictures, but all in all, I loved it there!! 

Art Foundation Exhibition

I <3 Singer Sewing Machines

So this was my art foundation exhibition in Swansea Met. The brief was 'power of making' and we could literally do anything we wanted. I started looking into the old singer sewing machines and made patterns on photo-shop to be printed on to 15 meters of fabric! I was so pleased with how it all looked and can't wait now to go to Cardiff Met next year, to do contemporary textiles!