New Portfolio

Since in this unit it is a personal specification you have to feel pasionate and intrested in the work your doing and my sketchbook so far has not intressted me. So I have changed my layout and started from fresh. I have looked at the bright blues, reds and whites of the American flag and used these as my background, using different media in these colours to give my portfolio more texture. I feel that with this change of layout and style it has got me intrested in the topic again and has gave me passion to start to look at new areas for my sketch book.

New Layout

I have decied to use a new layout because the one I was using didnt portray my sketchbook the way i wanted it to.

50's

After looking at Andy Warhol I have moved my sketch book on to look at the fashion of the 50's. I have found some images in Nylon magazine of a 50's inspired photo shoot which I am going to put into my sketch book as secondary research. I have also got some 50's style clothes and garments actually from the 50's to have a photo shoot of my own. I will then develop these primary images and make them into Andy WaWarhol style images the put them in my sketch book. This will help me to find designers from the 50's and help me go down a more fashion orientated route.

New Artist

After looking at Shepard Fairey in depth I decied that I dont think he is as suited to my project as I want, although his art does relate to America I think that it doesnt allow me to go down as many roots as another artist. So the other artist i have choose is Andy Warhol because I can rlate him to America since i can go down the root of pop art then relate that to the 50's then look at 50's fashion since fashion is the root i would like to end up focusing on. I can also make my primary images from taking pictures of people in 50's clothes then editing them into a pop art print. I could also use mono printing to make some samples.

Shepard Fairey

Shepard Fairey is a contemporary artist who I choose to look at mainly for the Barack Obama poster 'Hope & Progress' that he produced. I also feel he fits into my work because of his contemary style which will allow me to look at some other also contemporary artists and designers.

Shepard Fairey has not only produced the Barack Obama poster but also many other famous pieces of Art. One of these being the 'Andre the Giant' which was a piece that he produced at the start of his career. I will look at all his art in my sketch to show his wide range.

Summer

Over summer I have did various things for my project. Firstly I retrieved primary images from my holiday. I took them from different places in America and I plan to look at certian images and see how this portrays America. For example I have photos from San Francisco of tall, industrial buildings which shows the city side of America, then I have photos from California showing beaches and sea which shows the laid back lifestyle of the country. I also have collected a series of both second and first hand images of things that realted to America. I have retrieved my primay images from a festival I went to were Marina and the Dimonds played, and she is on of my insperations. My secondry images are from magazines and the internet, and I intend to use these images to create a mood page in my second sketch book. The artist I am going to focus on at the moment is Shepard Faire, who i mentined in my statment of intent.

Inspiration

One of the main insperations for my Unit 3 was the fact im going to America for a summer Holiday. Then I started to research into America and found a music video by 'Marina and the Diamonds' called 'Hollywood'. In the video there are people dressed in cheerleading outfits and there are American flags hung all over. This lead me to wanting to recreate this scene as a starting point for my primary research and images.