Tony Orrico

Here is an amazing artist that I have found.  This is Tony Orrico and he creates  these unusual symmetrical drawings using his hands and body.  The thing that interests me most is how much control he has with both of his hands as he is able to copy each other.  Most of Orricos work is created on a large scale which makes his work more effective. 

These are my attempts in trying to create symmetrical drawings like Tony Orrico.  At first I thought it would be really easy to create but as you can see it was hard and I feel it wasn't really successful.  Also this is just the beginning as I really enjoyed creating these drawing as I feel I could take them further and make more complicated drawings on a bigger scale.    

Transformation Part 2

For my transformation brief I was required to create a 2D piece.  For this I choose to stick with paper cutting as I have enjoyed using creating these pieces

Here I have experimented with a different technique of paper cutting where I have tried to capture the same shapes like in my 3D piece. I feel this piece works really well as when I put it up at the window or in front of a light this is what happens.

When it was hanging up at my window I began to experiment with putting different coloured tissue paper behind it which created this effect in the photo above. What I like most about it is the texture of the tissue paper that the camera has caught.

Later I began to experiment with my camera and began to take photos of my work. This is one of my photos that I took and I really liked as it reminded me of my original photos that I took. The thing that I most like about this photo is how the circles are clearer even though they are out of focus and I also like how they overlap like my photos of the lights. 



One morning when I woke up I saw these shadows across my room and then I saw that it was my 2D piece that was creating these. This then gave me the idea of experimenting with shadows and colours for my final 2D piece as I found this unusual but really interesting to look at. 



Transformation

Over the year in my Degree course I have learned many new skills but the one that stood out to me the most is the paper cutting workshop.

When looking at the theme transformation i began experimenting with my camera and taking photos that interested me like the one above. I liked the idea of taking these out of focus pictures of lights and trying to transform them into paper, where I was looking at colour, shape and distance.

This is one of the pieces that I made and what I most like about it is how I have created a sense of distance. This is the start of my 3D piece as I want to scrunch these up and see what unusual pieces that I can create.

After experimenting with scrunching up my 2D pieces I found that using smaller paper cut outs created a more interesting and effective final piece. I also like how each one works really well with the coloured background reflecting the original photos that I took.

Poster

Recently I have just completed a project where I had to create a poster to attract peoples attention to go to the Hippodrome cinema in Bo'ness. What I decided to do is look at the building itself and the history that the building has been through. I felt that this would encourage the older generation to come back to the building that they might have went to before the building closed down in the 1970's and relive happy memories.

This is what my final poster turned out like.  I made the title "Connecting back in time" as that was the concept that I was trying to get across, bringing the history back to the hippodrome.  In the end I choose the building as my image on the poster as it is such a unique building that it can be recognised by anyone and I made the building fade away to give the sense that the history is being lost and that it needs to be brought back. 

When creating my poster I looked at many different graphic designers and poster designers.  The one designer that stood out at me most was A.M Cassandre and his transport posters.  Cassandre's Posters really helped me as I like his use movement and scale in his posters and it caused it to really stand out and catch peoples attention.

Second Blog Finally !!

Its took me quite a while to get used to uploading a blog as I'm not a blog person.  Since my last blog I have completed a many different workshops and briefs for different classes so I have allot to talk about.

Within the class Creative Concepts I have already completed two briefs, a working time device and creating four symbols for four different words.  For my time device I began looking at water clocks and in the end created a working time device using water, which time a set time to take a drink.

For my symbol brief I choose the words festival, society, culture and holiday.  First I researched what I thought each word meant and began to use this to start designing symbols for each word and in the end I produced four digital symbols.

At the moment I have started my next brief where I have to create a themed Sketchbook based on a location of my choice.  The location that I have choose to look at is the woods as the experience that I got when I went there was that I felt quite Isolated and Alone so I feel I could really show this effectively as a themed sketchbook.

My location

So hopefully I will upload bolg's more often now and there willl be more to come. :)

My first blog !!

My name is Lyle Davidson and i am a BA Art and Design student.  PDP last week was an interesting class as i was able to learn new things about myself, as i was asked to list the top 40 strong points.  This was quite difficult as i had never thought about my strong points and i was lucky to even name 10 good things about myself.  Once i had completed this i was asked to choose 5 of these points which i was most proud of and i choose my confidence, my positive attitude, always seeing the good side of things, having my own views and being happy.