CHANGE OF IDEA'S

After having a group tutorial on our subject of '175mph Wind Speed' me and my group felt that we had to bring it back to the 175 year celebration of the art school, this project needs to be more 'fun' and a celebration of art. With this, we brainstormed idea's and after having a look at our research so far we have decided to expand the 'powder paint' research. We are celebrating colour; 'colour the city', if you asked someone to describe the city of Manchester 9/10 they would say 'grey' or 'dull', so why not colour the city? literally? metaphorically? why not? also thinking back to the art school - especially the new build, it is just a white/grey concrete building, it is the art students that fill it with magic (colour). 

With this we have decide to arrange a series of events/celebrations of colour which will be filmed/photographed and used into creating a 'zine', the zine will be filled with beautiful, colourful celebrations.

EXPERIMENTING WITH POWDER PAINTS

Today some of the group experimented with powder paints - wetting a piece of cotton fabric and blowing powder paints on to it using a hairdryer - this reminds me of the Holi paint festival in India - were powder paint in a variety of colours is thrown and celebrated.

After this we brainstormed idea of how we could develop this process further - you could do it on a larger scales for instance? have objects in front of the fabric as its blowing to create shapes within the paint? or people in front of it? the possibilities of what you can do when working with this paint are endless!

STANISLAV ODYAGAILO

'TO CATCH A WIND' PROJECT

“When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” — Leonardo da Vinci

When we had our weekly group meeting this week, we shared our research so far in the project, and a member of the group gave the name of artist 'Stanislav Odyagailo' - his work looked interesting and caught my eye - i especially was inspired by the 'To catch a wind' project (pictured above) where a fabric (silk, chiffon or an organza?) to a model and is caught in the wind to give the effect of a butterfly - the moment is captured on a camera. 

ALBERTO SEVESO

Alberto Seveso create's these 'Billowing Plumes' of Metallic ink - photographing them giving them a follding/creasing/flowing windswept look to them - this gives me an idea to use paints/dyes/inks's with wind.

this reminded me of my original wind research using hairdryers and sticks to create shapes in ink/dyes/paint.

RESEARCH INTO WIND SPEED

Over the Easter holidays i have started to look at how can I draw wind? Something that is invisible? with this  began research into how wind is recorded - looking into wind speed charts etc

I began to experiment with ink's/dye's using a hairdryer (wind) to move them or using a stick to make the graph recording shapes.

STARTING UNIT X

Today I met with my group, our task was to get to know each other,I think this is important as we have to work with each other for the next 6 - 8 weeks! luckily we all get on very well and we were able to jump right into this project and discuss the facts that we have found. 

Everyone brought different and some very random facts to the table about 175 but one that stood out was '175mph wind speed' which is the highest wind speed recorded in this country. 

we have all agreed to go away and research wind speed and then come together and share our idea's, as all will have a different/they're own take on wind speed.

i myself intend to look at how wind speed is recorded, as you can't 'see' wind but you can see it through charts that measure it.

I like the colours and the free flowing lines - this is only one type of wind chart, i intend to look at other ways of recording wind speed.

LAUNCH OF UNIT X

Today we had a lecture to launch 'unit x', the unit is based around '175' which is significant in that the art school is 175 years old this year. Thinking about this subject i have started to brainstorm a few idea's on what could link to the number 175. I typed 175 into Google and found these basic facts. 

• Actress Rose Tapley appeared in 175 films
• British children's television program Rosie and Jim ran on CITV from 1990–2000 with 175 episodes
• I Fought the Law (1965) by the Bobby Fuller Four ranked #175 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time

Although these are just random facts, they could spark some inspiration, tomorrow i will meet with my group for the first time and we will share our facts found relating to the number 175.