SNOW

So there's a blizzard outside.

And this poster was on the tube today. Irony right there.

BATH

Went to have a look at the uni. I liked it. But now i'm just really confused about what im gonna put as my firm choice. That is, if I get in anywhere at all.
Anyway. It was all snowy and lovely there. The icicle thingies were crazy. Never seen anything like them.
AMAZING.

HELVETICA

My life is ruined.
All I do now is study type on everything I read.
As I can only recognise Helvetica, all I do is search for Helvetica wherever I go.
If I find it, I question why the person has used Helvetica.
If I dont find it, I question why they didn't.
My tube rides are never going to be the same again.
What annoys me most is that the tube signs DON'T use Helvetica.
WHY NOT????!!!??!!!??!!!!
The little diamonds in the tube font drive me insane.
I feel the need to go at them with a permanent marker.
MUST NOT RESORT TO VANDALISM.

TYPE- Honey i shrunk the kids titles

10 ways to procrastinate.

Ok so its not great. but it is my first attempt at an animation so i am pretty proud.

LISTS

This project killed me. I just didnt connect with it. I dunno why. I spent an entire day biting my nails, hence 'THE 10 WAYS TO PROCRASTINATE'.
10 fingers. 10 ways.
All good and well, but putting it all in one image was an absolute  nightmare. I've tried animations but they dont look any good. Also, I dont know what to do with the photos now I have them.
I DONT KNOW HOW COMPUTER PROGRAMMES WORK!
nightmare. so stressed.

www.wefeelfine.org/

LOVE IT

30 things continued.

Ok. So I'm meant to choose one and carry it on. My favourite of my 30 things was 'Carrots make your hair curl', despite quite a few people doing the same thing as me.
Soooo I started thinking about other vegetables and ingredients that could be used cosmetically. Then my sister got the wonderful job of standing their whilst I attacked her with tomato puree and the likes:

 

I liked these images, but thought I'd take it a bit further, and use the idea of the Old Wives Tales. The actual saying is 'Crusts make your hair curl' and 'Carrots make you see in the dark'. So I decided to mix them together and give 'Crusts make you see in the dark' a go:

I now had hair and eyes, so thought I may as well add a mouth into the mix. I was really unsure of what to do, but settled on treacle making your teeth black. Which doesnt really make much sense as its not an Old Wives Tale. Sugar actually does make your teeth black! But as my other two tales were muddled up anyway, I stuck with it.

My sister refused. So I got to do the honours. Lucky me:

HIDEOUS.

30 thaannngggsssss

Wowza. thats a lot of things. I did the majority of them. So I am pretty proud. I really enjoyed this project, although I got pretty stressed out about it.
Here are a few of them:

CARROTS MAKE YOUR HAIR CURL

Except they actually made it straight!

 

                                                 

WRITE YOUR NAME IN WATER

Spookkaayyyyy

 COUNT SOMETHING POINTLESS

Smarties. Gettit? Pointless. My sense of humour sucks.

 SOMETHING THAT SHOULDN'T BE

I was intrigued when i walked into a Manchester toilet cubicle to find TWO toilets in there! Amazing.

Choice

When I first came to Chelsea, I thought that I was sure that Fine Art was going to be my specialism. I had chosen Fine Art at A-level and whilst open minded about the other rotations, and interested to see what they had to offer, I was pretty certain that Fine Art was where I would end up.
I began in 3D and Spatial Design, which I was looking forward to trying out as I had never done that sort of thing previously. I enjoyed the beginning of the rotation and was absolutely mortified on the first Friday when I found that I was incapable of making a model! I had, until then, been working in 2D. I tried to make my brain think in three dimensions, and tried to make my models work, but I was not enjoying the struggle and I came to the conclusion that 3D is not for me.
I then moved on to Fashion/ Textiles, where, once again, the first two days were looking promising. However, once again, I had to move on to dreaded 3D. Whilst I found it less of a struggle than in the previous rotation, I still did not enjoy it very much, and as I do not have much interest in the fashion world (with the exception of Fashion Illustration, which I love), I don’t think textiles is for me.
At this point, whilst a bit disappointed that I hadn’t greatly enjoyed either of the rotations, I was pleased that I was able to cross them off my shortlist, and that I was not going to be faced with difficult decisions when it came to specialisation.
The next rotation was Fine Art. The one I had been waiting for. However, It was not what I had expected. The first few days were good (a recurring theme for me in these rotations!), and I enjoyed getting back into observational drawing, and was very much in my comfort zone. However, when the second week arrived and we allowed to do what we wanted, the tutors told me they did not like my style of painting, and that they wanted me to paint in a more abstract manner. They also didn’t appear to care or be very interested in the ideas behind what I was doing - which threw me completely as I am very much an ideas-based worker. At this stage I became a bit disheartened as I love to paint and most enjoy reproducing images as I see them, rather than in abstract form.
I did understand what they were saying about the work I had started and in fact  was not at all pleased with it myself. I want to develop as an artist and do not want to stay the same, but I do not at this stage want to feel pressured to completely change my painting style. Despite being very confused after my experiences in Fine Art, it was a good learning experience for me and I did really enjoy the rotation and am reasonably pleased with my final pieces.
My final rotation was Visual Communication and although I still found it challenging this was the one that I felt most at ease with. The first project we were given was called ‘Ideas, Ideas, Ideas’ and after the short period we were given to fill an entire sketchbook with all of the ideas that popped into our heads from a given word, I knew that I liked Vis Com.
Ideas has always been a big part of my work and I really enjoy working from a brief- both of these are core within the Vis Com specialisaton. Right now, I think that illustration may be what I would like to go into- and I am also interested in animation. For these reasons I  have decided that this is the pathway I wish to pursue over the coming year.

Vis Com

Oh my goodness- the rotations are over! Craziness. How time flies when you are having fun...

I remember thinking last year that 8 weeks was wwaaaayyy too short a time in which to decide what I want to pursue, and I still feel the same- I kindof wish that i could have bypassed 3D and Fashion altogether, and spent longer in Fine Art and Vis com, as i'm finding it difficult to decide between the two.

I should probably be saving this for my statement. 

Soooooo Vis Com. Love it. I think. My indecision will be my downfall. Its definitely the rotation I have felt most comfortable in, and have enjoyed the most. I really liked making the sequences in the Images, Images, Images project, despite the fact that mine wasn't strictly a sequence:

 

I really like that we have briefs for the projects, in comparison to in Fine Art, where I found that I didn't really respond well to being able to completely self-direct.

As it stands, I think viscom will be my choice.

Fine Art

Oh dear. At the beginning, I was thinking 'YAY, SOMETHING I CAN DO!'. By the end of the first week, 'Maybe not..'.
It was all going so well, drawing from set-ups around the studio- very much in my comfort zone (despite having to stand up, which is the excuse I am going to use to explain why my sketches aren't great!), but then when we allowed to do what we wanted, and I began to paint, the tutors came and told me that it was rubbish! They wanted me to paint more abstract- which is fine for other people, but REEAAALLLYY isn't something I enjoy. They also didn't care about the ideas behind my work- which is basically the way I like to do things (I prefer working on an idea than picking random images), AND they wanted me to paint structural images. Not my style at all. I was totally gobsmacked. This was not the Fine Art I am used to.
However, I did understand what they were saying about the work I had started, as I wasn't at all pleased with it myself, but I thought that this was supposed to be a chance to show them what we were about, rather than a chance for them to put us down and drastically change what we do. I know that I have to develop, and cant stay the same forever, but I like what I do, and I dont want to completely change my painting style- as that would be turning it into someone else's painting style. So I think that maybe Fine Art is not for me.
Despite the rant I have just gone on (sorry), I ironically, did enjoy Fine Art the most so far. I am just hoping that VisCom interests me!
Here are my final paintings, which I do quite like, but they are just not 'me' at all:

Fashion and Textiles

I really enjoyed the beginning of this rotation, when we were doing the drawing exercises, because it reminded me of life drawing- which I really like. It was so different from the drawing I am used to, as they were all so quick and linear. It was also such a relief to get away from model making!

But on the third day, they wanted 3D an I drew a complete blank. I dont know what it is about it that scares me, but as soon as its mentioned I seem to hit a brick wall and all ideas just disappear out of my head! I got through it though and made some stuff that was halfway decent. Wahheeyy.

I also photocopied my work, and quite liked the outcomes:

 

I was ill for the final two days of this rotation, but I think that the days that I was present for gave me enough information about the pathway. I did enjoy it way more than 3D/Spatial, but there was nothing about it that really jumped out at me and made me think 'I want to do this'. So yeah. Bye bye Fashion and Textiles!

3D Spatial

As I've always done Fine Art, I was looking forward to try out something different in the 3D spatial rotation. However, I soon changed my mind as it turned out that I was not at all good at it!
On day 1 we were split into groups and made an installation with string and objects we had brought in to represent 'Where I am Coming From', and then drew from them:

On day 2 we did the same sort of thing but made our installations outside:

 When it came down to working alone and trying to form models based on shapes from drawings I had done on the Independent Study Day I found it extremely difficult. Thinking in 3D is so different to anything I have ever done and I got really frustrated as nothing was turning out the way I would have liked. I ended up having to use so much tape on them- and the tutors were not happy!
Here are a few of my models:

Something to walk through (not a building):

Something to support the body (not a chair):

Something to hold a small object (not a box):

 

I do not particularly like any of the work I produced during this rotation, and am almost certain that I am not going to pursue 3D/ Spatial!