artiste machine

long time no post, bet you were all getting a bit worried and thought i'd caught the swine. well i haven't and im class. anyway we had a project at college where we had to choose one painter from a pretty boring list and one sculpture from another, yet surprisingly more boring list. My choices were Rothko and Claes Oldenburg. when you look at my final outcome, if you can't see the influence you are obviously hella ignorant or hella blind.

I've never really made a sculpture so i wanted to give this a shot, and although the idea of making an interactive sculpture that ultimately destroys itself isn't original, i wanted to do it by dropping a tin of paint on itself splashing everyone and being fucking hilarious. i'll get to why this didn't happen later.

Firstly, i think you all should watch this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xZCgFl6SRs

if it reminds you of something, its because the original thinkers that are honda blatently stole this for an advert and then blatently got sued for it. nazis. This is the kind of thing i wanted to do, a big pointless machine that is just a bit of fun at the end of the day.

To start myself off i found a nicely sized box some one else was using, stole it then damaged it so they wouldn't know it was theirs, then i bought some wood, a lot of 6 inch nails, some screws, some plastic pipe shit and other bits and bobs in order to essentially kill it.











i found the hardest thing was getting a succesful pully system and as a result found a practical use for fashion, yeah you heard it. fashion students have fuck loads of these things that you put thread on and they are perfect for sticking on nails and wrapping string around, lube them up nicely and you've got yourself a little pully set. get the fuck in fashion.



and as a whole.




and the video of it in action

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSWtd1hgwWc

-Jeffro

a day well spent

For some stupid reason i went in to college today just for half an hour of information on UCAS that i have already been force fed hundreds of times before. I was pretty annoyed by this and decided to do something today to compensate. i took my massive painting home from college and thought i'd spied a space on my wall room for it.

Circa 12 I arrived in B&Q sporting very smart paint splattered shoes, tracksuit bottoms and my work shirt in the pissing rain, i wandered about looking for wood, got lost a few times couldn't find anyone and thus left. I arrived back at home, had a brew watched deal or no deal and plucked up the courage to attack another hardware store in the form of maxwells down the road. I bought around 8m of 20mm x 36mm wood, a pack of nails, some joining tech thingy's and a staple gun. then set to work on the build fueled by a tasty brew.

This is the first time i've ever made a stretcher and stretched a piece (despite it being paper, thus more folded than stretched), and as a result i am very proud of it. Next time however I will buy thicker stronger wood as screwing into it caused the wood to split every time, hence the heavy duct tape. Using duct tape just made me feel more manly though, next time im going to encorporate WD-40.















-Jeffro

ceramics and a favor

I finally got round to taking pictures of my piece for ceramics, the project brief was on animals and the animal i had to base mine on was the hammerhead shark. This happens to be the most uninteresting being on the planet, (ken doherty being a close second). so i kind of slid away from that and on to sharks as a whole as the entity of sharks is far more interesting than just the hammerhead shark. During this i learned that shark skin is actually made up of millions of tiny teeth meaning shark skin feels more like sand paper than silk. for this reason i made my piece very angular and slab built it in clay, coloured it black and (what i wanted to be white) cream to hopefully keep it looking raaadddd. i hoped it would be a flower pot, but due to unforseen circumstances is not infact water tight.











i also got a print of a photo i took on canvas for my sister to give to her boyfriend for her birthday, the printer fucked it up so i couldn't get it on a stretcher and instead had to mount it on a board, either way, pretty please with how it turned out and made a solid £20 profit from it!





-Jeffro

pure abstraction

Ready for pretentious waffle? Well you better be.

Today I finished off my abstract painting in fine art and then had to talk about it and defend it in a critique. The project title was 'abra kadabra' (a stupid brief) and so I started thinking about how fortune tellers read into the shapes of tea leaves, and how Max Ernst does a similar thing by working into random assortments of paint to create a surreal landscape. I also discovered a new profound love for mixing sand with paint, and painting with cardboard. Excellent fun.

I tried to keep the colours balanced and was heavily influenced by early Polock work, hope you like!











-Jeffro

FIRST!

if you are reading this you probably have less of a life than me, anyway a few pieces of older artwork for you to look at





-Jeffro