Urban Landscape Project

 I made these paintings as part of my experimentation towards final piece in my 'Urban Landscape' project. 

 This first image was made using the 'wet on wet' technique where I purposefully used an excess of water while painting to create the marbled effect you see in the field in front of the building here.

This piece was made by painting a background using some bright coloured water-colour paints and then sticking different shaped cut outs from magazines to look like buildings. I like the uniqueness this gave the picture, particularly because of the unusual objects that I used.








This piece was made by painting a multicoloured background using water-colour paints before adding chalk pastel in different colours to represent buildings. I then drew different shapes along the buildings in the foreground to look like windows, but left the buildings in the background empty because they are far away.
I then outlined and gave detail using a fine liner pen.






I painted this without the use of a paintbrush, by scraping paint along some card, using alternate sized pieces of card for different sized shapes in the paint or for different coloured paint.
This painting technique is called impasto.

This piece was made by placing down different shaped pieces of card before painting over them and the background, then peeling off the card to reveal the sharp white colour of the paper surrounded by the colour that was painted over the card. I really liked this effect, particularly because the image looks quite similar in reverse.






This painting was made using paper collage. I cut out different pieces of newspaper into the shapes that I wanted and stuck them to my background before painting them in different colours and then splashing paint across the page in blue, to look like rain pouring from the clouds.
This is my favourite image that I made out of these 6 experimental pieces, and I have decided to use this technique for my final piece.

Twerk Chicken Stop Frame Animation

This is my first attempt at stop frame animation. Its not to be taken seriously as it is only meant for experimental purposes, but I find it entertaining so I thought I would share it on here. The object I used for this animation was actually a real chicken skeleton that we had lying around the flash room for whatever reason; so me and a few friends I was working with decided that it would be PERFECT, for experimenting with. We tied some fishing wire to the body parts that we wanted to animate and carefully pulled at different angles and took photos, before putting them all together as separate frames at high speed, to deceive the eye into believing that the chicken skeleton is actually dancing to this music. I hope you enjoy this animation.
To view this video please follow this link, here.

Evil Rabbit

This is a sketch I made in my spare time. Its possibly one of the creepiest things I've drawn in my life, even more so than the Alex Pardee work I did..
I used watercolor paints and fineliner pen to create this illustration.

More 'Destroy' project photos

 For these 3 photos I used double exposure as my advantage and took separate photos of an empty scene and a scene containing some volunteers, before merging them together, to create a ghostly effect.

 For these 3 photos I took close up pictures of some individual volunteers, before editing them on Photoshop to remove their noses! I loved this particular set of photos because they are quite funny. 

The Destroy Project

 Destroying an image could mean anything that makes it different from its original form. I decided to take an illustrative twist to the project, using traditional methods by painting over the image rather than editing using digital methods. 

I used watercolor paints and fineliner pen to manipulate the photo and giving it a more imaginative and story like feel.

With this next photo, I cut out the part that I wanted and stuck it onto an A3 piece of paper, before drawing a new scene behind it. I figured I would stick with the same theme of an imaginative nature, by replacing my own body with that of a fairy instead and placing over-sized objects on the table to give the impression that I was no longer adult sized.

Sea Life Sign

This was a project I had to complete in college. My target audience for this sign are people who cannot read English and families with small children. I aimed to include objects in each of the octopus' tentacles such as a teacup for the cafe and a ticket for the ticket booth for those who could not read the words on the sign. This was my first ceramic project. I took the time to pay attention to small details by molding and shaping every inch of this sign, including the suction cups on the tentacles and the pattern upon its body to make it look as realistic as possible.

Short Flash Animation

Please feel free to view my recent flash animation 'Selma'
This animation was created as an assignment for college using Macromedia Flash.
The assignment was to create a short advertisement or music video. I chose to do an advertisement for a film. Obviously, the film doesn't actually exist.
I hope you enjoy this animation by following this link, here.
Also, keep your eye on my YouTube channel for more flash animations, which are currently waiting to be uploaded and should be available tomorrow!