(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 2 Research

While at a local hardware store (B&Q) I came across a few different appliances that I thought could come in handy for research towards my artwork

As I began looking into mechanical imagery and small components I decided to include my camera tripod within this as it has an interesting form to work with.

On my travels I saw many trains, with this there were many interesting complex machinery pieces that were revealed which I quickly took photographs of.

While in Plymouth i took a lot of photographs of the city and its surroundings which I found very useful to work with, especially the architecture of drake circus.

I soon ventured down to the docks and found old rusted chains which i thought would be interesting for texture within my work as well as the forms of the images themselves.

I am very fascinated with shipyards as they look very busy, I liked the idea of how the boats sat in front of each other in this photo which got me thinking about layering my images.

This was an interesting piece which i found while venturing through the city, the artists name could not be found but I did like the idea of building up over the artwork to create a cut up effect of the art to make it look bigger and also to give it more of a concept and meaning to the image.

These photographs were taken within the Plymouth Museum which I spent many hours looking around finding more organic and mechanical imagery which relates back to the artwork i intended to create for my project.

Again i am very fond of ships of all shapes, forms and sizes, i especially liked these models which i admired the craftsmanship of to build, the reason I looked at these was because of the older technology on ships that is no longer used, the line the shape, form and presentation.

I also have a large fondness for clockwork of all forms, especially vintage looking grandfather clocks, I am interested in how something works and the components that are made to create it to make it tick.