(Ba Hons) Fine Art Year 2 - Machine Development

Machines

The main inspiration for this project would be that I was fascinated with the small components that held machinery together that we use on a daily basis, without these connections the machine as a whole could not properly function and would become unstable with this I have taken photographs of different architectural structures and machines both old and new, from visiting these places and also using pieces of imagery from magazines, I have then created a collage within photoshop to make something new, I then enlarged the imagery that I have created and cropped certain sections which I then printed out and traced lines on to the top of multiple pieces of acetate.

these are a few of my acetate drawings which I have compiled together to create a triptych each of these were a close up of my original Photoshop designs which I have traced and used as my source of development.

this is a different way of presenting my acetates by layering them on top of one another.

for this i layered the acetates but created an extra layer for the emphasis of the borders.

This is the final outcome of my development of what i called "the wasp" due to its color scheme, I also decided to convert all the parts into a motorcycle design. it is a process that I enjoyed working with.

This is the beginning of a new project that I am to work on in the future. this is how I would normally begin, this being that i would firstly cut out the images and compile all the cutouts into one file and work with what I have collected.

from this an additional piece to my artwork was formed with the imagery I had collected.

I then added this to the machinery that I already had and applied a cutout filter. from this I think it looks more in the style of a comic book, this was not intended, however I did like the outcome. This is still to be developed further a bit more. I have nicknamed this piece "the Dragonfly" due to its bug like shape. I have also been told it reminds people of one of the transformers.

(Ba Hons) Fine Art Year 1

University First Project - Drawing Project - Find An Art piece that inspires you, use this to develop and create.

Here are a few art pieces from the last few years. This series of art pieces was my Artwork from my first year of university in which I was to look at another artists paintings/sculptures and create something through getting inspired from this, however my inspiration did not go very far, so from this I began creating still life images through studying a ball of colored tape that was to be thrown away however I salvaged this and used it for myself, with this I started using a series of different mediums such as chalk, charcoal, paint, HB pencils, parcel paper and any other materials which I could find.

As my experimentation went on I observed the tape ball from all sides and began to work more on a larger scale soon noticing that a small tape ball had so much potential for artwork although I was left somewhat unsatisfied as this could be developed further so continued to find alternatives to present and create my art.

Caged Sphere

James Bamford

(2011)

charcoal and chalk on parcel paper

This was one of the first few experiments that I worked on as I focused on still life studies using a variety of different materials such as pencil, paint, charcoal and chalk. I also considered different textures within the paper that I had such as old paper bags from places that i had shopped at as I liked the feel of the paper, I also found that with chalk and charcoal, the paper grips really well, with the minor lines, this added an effect to the image, I attempted to use scrap pieces of card however it did not have the same texture or effect as the parcel paper, I had also used pastels, the colors stood out but it lacked something that i was unsure of.

Tape Ball Still Life Study I

James Bamford

(2011)

Chalk and Charcoal on parcel paper

Tape Ball Still Life Study II

James Bamford

(2011)

Chalk and pastels on cardboard

Tape Ball Still Life Study III

James Bamford

(2011)

Chalk and Charcoal on Paper

Ink Blot

James Bamford

(2011)

Indian ink on cardboard

This was a long enduring project in which I grew to enjoy as I realized the complication of creating was more satisfying than something that could be done almost instantly, even though the wait for its completion was quite irritating sometimes as my patience grew thin. However there were a few experiments that happened quickly like this one, I call this a 'Happy accident' as a splat of ink fell onto some cardboard, this was totally unrelated to my project and happened to stumble upon this by chance, I had an idea to blow it about with a straw and blow it about in all different directions, also folding the card into a square so the card would absorb the ink creating an ink blot image which I found to be a successful random experiment.

Life Down The Drain

James Bamford

(2011)

Photograph

For this I drank whiskey for three nights in a row to "get a feel" of what i was researching into, my addiction idea inspired this and i realized that whiskey was an alcohol that a lot of people had talked about, i realized it had a very strong and hard taste to it that made me drink a lot of it even though i didn't like it, a bit like an addiction however i don't drink alcohol that much.

I was attempting to create an image of people drinking their life away. the blue (food coloring)  that i poured on top of it with the black Indian ink created an interesting effect the black removed the name making it like the alcohol makes the drinker become a "nobody", their name wiped away into nothing. the blue represents the crazy feelings that people get when they drink this and when it clashes  it ends in rage and violence, from what i understand anyway.

University Second Project - Mixed Media - Landscape


These images happened on an accidental basis as my printer ink was running low and was originally intending to use this image to trace from however lines begin to appear and i realized that this idea may work if I included the lines too to create a sense of abstraction within the city, i divided the photo into 6 separate A4 sheets and worked bigger.

As shown this is a combination of Line, color and tones along with the bad quality of the image made into something far more interesting which I happened to stumble across by accident which I really liked to do. this was the starting point of many new ideas in the future.

Leicester

James Bamford

(2011)

Acetate and black permanent marker.

Harris Museum

James Bamford

(2011)

Parcel paper, willow charcoal and chalk

This was my second project which was based around landscape, for this i began to research something different from my first project of still life drawings, I cut out various images of an architecture magazine to cut and paste to create a large scale city scene as shown took a lot of development, this expanded into a few of my paintings later on but using the cut outs of the pages that layered into one another to create a new image in its own way, this was a technique that I found was an interesting starting point for me to work from.

Cityscape Collage

James Bamford

(2011)

Collage

Cityscape Collage

James Bamford

(2011)

Collage

Cityscape Collage

James Bamford

(2011)

Collage

Cityscape Collage

James Bamford

(2011)

Collage

Cityscape Collage

James Bamford

(2011)

Collage

Cityscape Collage

James Bamford

(2011)

Collage

Cityscape Collage

James Bamford

(2011)

Collage

This was an experiment that i had worked on previously which was successful to pain in singular colors with a complimenting secondary color to recreate an image which i liked. here I have used teal and white acrylic paint to recreate images that i have found interesting or formed myself from cutouts. I no longer have these Paintings as they have been either lost or destroyed. The measurements I am unsure about however they were just a little bit larger than an A4 sheet of paper.

Whiskey Bottle From Birds Eye View

James Bamford

(2012)

Acrylic on MDF

Cutout 1

James Bamford

(2012)

Acrylic on MDF

Cutout 2

James Bamford

(2012)

Acrylic on MDF

Cutout 3

James Bamford

(2012)

Acrylic on MDF

Spirals

James Bamford

(2012)

Acrylic on MDF

Hellfire

James Bamford

(2012)

Acrylic on MDF

Colorful Shave

James Bamford

(2012)

Acrylic on MDF

Razor Blades

James Bamford

(2012)

Acrylic on MDF

Cutout 4

James Bamford

(2012)

Acrylic on MDF

Mess

James Bamford

(2012)

Acrylic on MDF