Charlotte Walker Art Foundation Degree

Creating a rainbow of socks was another thing on my list of initial ideas for re-arrangement.  I arranged them in rainbow order starting with red, where you can see my Yayoi Kusama socks at the front. I think she is a fantastic artist so I will include some examples of her work later in the post. Due to the days still being short, the pictures are quite dark and contain silhouetted shapes in the background like trees and the church. I wanted to capture the sock rainbow without the background obscuring it, so I had to get low to the ground to get the sky as the background, but there was only so low I could go before not being able to see what I was doing. In the photo above, the flash was activated and it gives the socks a bold, contrasting tone that looks kind of artificial and surreal to me. Next I arranged them by length. The way this creates a gradient reminds me of a graph or chart, giving it a mathematical or statistical feel,  as well as a sense of direction as if they are travel

One of the first things that came to mind when I got the re-arrangement brief was to do something with my collection of beanies. Because they are so colourful, I decided they should go against a plain background, so I cleaned the bath out and started filling it with the animals.  The first set of photos shows the animals in a random arrangement where I photographed them from different angles... For these close up images I placed the camera in the bath with the animals and blindly took the photographs, not knowing what the results would be. The flash came on for these pictures which makes the in-focus areas appear very sharp with a clear representation of the animals' surface textures. They also remind me of claw machines in arcades, which gives the images a nostalgic feel - all of these beanies were manufactured in the 1990's and early 2000's. This is the thing that opens and closes the plughole in the bath, and it created some strange reflections of the beanies which look

The portrait has existed as an art form almost as far back as human records go, evolving throughout periods of societal shifts and developing technologies. I want to look at the differences between classical and contemporary portraiture and their significance within the art world. Early portraiture is often associated with aristocracy and the monarchy; high status individuals such as these would commission artists to paint them in a display of wealth and power. Imagery focused on the sitter’s riches, with lavish clothing, jewellery and other symbolic props overwhelmingly present in the frame. A famous example is the Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I from 1588, though the artist is unknown. The painting is completely packed with symbolism and displays of power, it would take hours to analyse each thing, so I will highlight the elements that stand out to me. The globe under her hand gives her a Godly sense of control over the world, and the ships in the background denote her armed/naval for

With my photographs for reference, I used continuous line to draw the glass animals, mostly looking at the image rather than the paper when drawing. I really enjoy this scribbly style and I think it makes the animals look very characterful and animated. For the next set of drawings I drew directly from the objects, paying slightly more attention to the shapes, and painted them loosely with watercolour. I used fine-liner on top and created highlights with white pen, and added  detail with sparkly gel pens to create shine on the animals that have metallic effects beneath a layer of clear glass, such as the blue pig, although I'm not sure if the scanner picked this up, so I will have to take some close up photos in daylight. I decided that the pink horse was my favourite from the watercolour paintings because the colour is subtle so the fine-liner is more present compared to the darker, more solid paintings like the frog which didn't go well. I took the image of the horse and crea

Yesterday, four inches of snow fell and I wanted find a way to incorporate this into the new project because it felt really magical and I worry that in the future we won't experience snow due to the warming climate, so I try to embrace it while it's here. I thought about what objects in my house I could arrange outside and chose my ornamental glass animals, then photographed them in different arrangements in the snow. I thought this idea would be suitable for the project theme because it takes household objects and re-locates them to an outdoor setting where they don't belong, or at least we wouldn't expect to find them there. The pictures came out darker than I expected so I will be sure to check my camera settings next time - I think it was due to the camera trying to adjust to the brightness of the snow. For the first set of images I took a random approach and just placed them how I wanted to. I love the effect of the clear glass with the refracted light and delicate