Jan Svanksmajer - "Surviving Life"... (9.1.12)

Link on Jan svanksmajer - "Surviving life"...
http://www.nowness.com/day/2011/11/22/1725/jan-vankmajer-surviving-life#replay

I went to see this film at the Mac in Birmingham, and I found it very funny and crazy. The film had both reality which was shown has real footage and fantasy (Dreams)  which was made into an animation but even in the dream it cut back to real footage, which I thought was very good. Im going to use this technique in a film im going to make.

My Grayson Perry/ Stan Brakhage inspired box...

I decided to carry on with my work by making

a box, which lead on from my vase, inspired by Grayson Perry.

I created this box by drawing and using real photos of me and my twin sister, because I wanted a variety of different use of media and techniques. I decided to add stitching around the box for  personal effect.

       On this side of the box, I have used a collage of comic book images to represent our likes today.

 I have drawn this picture of me and my twin using a drawing pencil, and for the background I used a scoldering iron to stick together different fabrics and tissue paper together, because the colours relate back to my big inspiration throughout my work, Stan Brakhage.

 On this piece I decided to use a photocopied image of me and my sister from when we were babies, and I also photocopied our favourite characters from Disney on to some fabric, and for the background I stuck down strips of tissue paper to represent stan Brakhage and his use of colour in his films.

On this side of the box, I left it quite plain and used only newspaper and bits of old books for the background, and drew the picture of us in Pencil, so the box did not look to over crowded.

                                                                 Top view of box.

Bottom of the box.

Secret Santa ...

This is what I made for my friend before the christmas holidays, because we had to make our presents for secret santa.

I love this stop motion animation film, It inspires me to be creative with my own work ...

Life Drawing 7.12.11

I loved making this vase inspired by Grayson Perry because it represents me and my twin through a time line and our likes.
I photocopied a picture of me and glued it on to the vase. I brought some glass paint and a black glass paint pen, and drew up the cartoons on top of some photocopied images. I then added more images and text representing me and my sister and added green vines around us to connect us together, then at the end I collaged a piece of comic book around me.

Inspiration...

I've already wrote about this vase but 'A walk in Bloomsbury' is a massive inspiration for me at the moment, because I'm creating a vase inspired by Grayson Perry and his childhood. I'm creating a vase based on my childhood with my Twin, Amy and how when we were little we were literally like clones, but now the times have passed and we have grown up, our identities and personalities are now unique and our own. I then will go on to creating boxes based on this vase and drawing from it, like the vase.

(I will post a picture of my vase when I'm finished)