Bethany ... - portfolio

Bethany is a student at Edinburgh University doing textiles, she has just about finished her first year and has applied for her second year. She showed us the portfolio that she would be showing in her interview. she showed a mixture of techniques in the portfolio with inks and stuff.
It was a lot better having her portfolio in front of us as you could really differentiate the quality of materials used i think.

Charlotte Miller - portfolio

Charlotte Miller is in the last year of my college course and is about to go to University. She works on a huge scale that covers almost the majority of the classroom floor. Her work is very abstract and colourful.
I dont think a digital portfolio for Charlotte would do her work full justice as having it right in front of you, you can see the full size of the art. You could find a tiny picture of a painting online but when you view it it would be massive.

Caitlin Steele - portfolio

Caitlin Steele is a fashion student at Heriot Watt University who previously done the BTEC art and design course that I'm currently doing. She came to present her paper based portfolio to our class. The portfolio was photographs of her work from this year and the year before, she told us that she isn't allowed any work in her portfolio that is more than 2 years old so she has to change some regularly.

She told us this last one was made completely out of recycled material (rubbish)

Audra Auclair -portfolio

Audra Auclair is from Canada and has been exhibited both local to her and in other parts of america alongside Australia. She has a degree for Graphic Design but spends her time exploring the female form using fine art. 

She is also on Youtube and has an online store/gallery.  

Showing your portfolio online is extremely helpful, you can access it where ever you are for example an interview. 

www.audraauclair.com/#

Greg Simkins - portfolio

Greg was born in 1975 in California and started drawing when he was 3 and was inspired by cartoon characters.Greg's art continued to progress to the age of 18, when he started doing graffiti under the name “CRAOLA”. He has a series of speed paintings painting's and has his website http://www.imscared.com/

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8xQhGGKjek

Greg's website is easy to navigate, and very well laid out. You can easily and quickly see his work from where ever you are with internet access. It has sub headings when you hover over any of the categories in it so that you can find specific things such as drawings, paintings and graffiti on the Gallery section. The shop section is also cut into prints, originals, merch etc, which I find is pretty cool.

Cara Gates - Portfolio

Cara is a member of my college class, she is extremely talented and I've admired her wok all through the year. She is 18 years old, doing the same course as me - BTEC Art and Design Level 2, she would like to either be an illustrator, photographer,painter, or possibly a designer but shes not sure.

She brought in her paper based portfolio for some of us to look at.

The benefits of having a paper based portfolio are that you can easily see the quality of media used and the quality of the paper/canvas. 

The disadvantages, however are that you can't access them instantly and not everyone will see it.

(Some images are upside down :s)

F. Jay Haynes - photography

F. Jay Haynes was born in Saline, Michigan, on October 28, 1853. He opened his first studio in Minnesota. He was the first photographer in the area. 

The first image shows a hunter stood in a field or something, over his kill with his horse in the back ground. The hunter is stood "heroically" with one foot on the bison with gun in hand, both the hunter and his horse are looking in the same direction. 

This photo appears to be a train tunnel. The photo shows some symmetry, with the railway tracks leading you into train tunnel with the slight glimmer of the other end . 

 

Final ideas for photography

For my final thing for our photography unit I decided to use some of the pictures of my cats, My previous idea for the photography unit was to use my mental health as an idea but I sort of ran out of time for that and I felt it was a little bit much :s but I thought more into it and what helps me the most when im sliding down the slope of self loathing and that is my cats, Walter and Jessie. I looked more into what they usually do on a daily basis and that was mostly shoot around the house at top speed or perch in their cat tree or on shelves.

This image was basically a lucky shot that she moved as i took the picture, i love the smeared effect around her face that was made as she moved.

This one I basically just got down to Walter's level and i think it's okay

Like I was saying, Jessie likes to perch on shelves and tables and I personally love this picture due to the way it sits composition wise with her next to my mums Basset Hound ornament thing 

In this one Walter was confused by the camera so he kept bobbing his head up an down so I had loads of pictures of him just doing that so I thought, why not merge them together?! And this happened

I'm not a photographer, nor really plan on doing anything with photography, I tried my best to get into the photography unit but it never really excited me but i still tried my best :s

Angus McBean - Photography

Angus McBean was born in 1904 and died in 1990. He began his career in theateras a mask maker and scenery designer before turning towards theater photography.
Angus is famous for his theatrical and inventive photography in the 30's and 40's. He opened his own studio on 1935, and his work was later published in magazines. The Surrealist Exhibition in 1936 was an influence for his work.
He photographed The Beatles for their first album in 1960.
He was a Welsh photographer, set designer and cult figure associated with surrealism.

The first thing i notice about this picture is the woman's face, she isn't looking at the camera at all, she is facing towards the smoke with her head at about the same angle as the cigarette holder thing. 

I like that the picture is black and white because i feel if there was colour it would be too much.

The photograph of The Beatles is interesting because he took it while looking up at them rather than in front of them, this method usually makes the subject matter look bigger as you're looking up at it.

Here the center image is pictured between the dancing ballerina's legs, but as you look again it looks like the woman on the chair is maybe her dancing instructor watching her dance. I found this image interesting because of how it is positioned, it again is black and white but the lighting is very interesting because it mostly follows the dancers legs and mostly spot lights on the woman on the chair.