Mixed Media

As referred to in earlier posts other artists attend the school to share their craft and inspire students ideas of what art can be beside the obvious drawing and painting. One such artist is Julia Jowett. 

Mrs Simmonds arranged for Julia to attend shortly before I started at the school and her legacy was a project called 'A stitch in time'  Using cross-stitch embroidery to embellish fabric crossed over to Tom and the result were these Olympic Figures created using wire and cross stitch. While not an everyday site we all loved the end result and opened our minds to how old techniques  could be utilised in new ways. While  a bit off message for this report I couldn't help but include this. 

Wire & Cross-Stitch

http://juliajowett.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/design-illustration-stitch.html

Groups & Gatherings

The 'Theme' for Tom's work is 'Groups & Gatherings'
In negotiation with the teachers Tom has decided to apply the 'Olympics' as a central idea to base his projects and weave ideas into his work.

Having strong associations and symbolism this gives a strong base from which Tom can be creative and obviously already has 'motion' in the numerous events that encapsulate the 'Olympic' theme.

Together we can explore these to develop his storyboard idea and carry out the tests to see what techniques will work and which will not.

The Olympic rings are an obvious starting point … Good Work Tom!

Storyboard

Tom has sketched a 'storyboard' to work his ideas around. It lacks in-betweens but is a good start point to work into as we progress Rather than post a storyline it seems better to post the storyboard itself, leaving the rest to the readers imagination.

Miss Turner agreed that while this forms an outline of the ideas Tom has it will require some more idea development before we reach a finished version.

The Brief

This 'Brief' forms the basis for my work with Tom over the course of his A-Level module and my, External Brief module. It carries within it the required contact time through to the module submission of both Tom's and my course work. 

The theme of the project is ‘Groups & Gatherings’ and Tom has opted to combine the 'Olympics' with this theme and has already collected notes and done initial research on artists, symbols etc relating to the Olympics. Work for this module will be collected in his workbook. 

I will attempt to document the progress he makes within this blog.  
The bulk of the work to meet the exam board criteria requires an extensive range of 'research' and 'tests' with 2d animation involving 'moving image' and other processes.