Level7

Possible Ideas Level 7 & Level 8 Tori Searle

Owen Kydd

In this photograph I can see a variety of different objects and different colours all combined together in the same frame. If i was to choose a set of words to describe these photographs then I would use; abstract, exciting, random and colourful. I am interested in this work because I like all of the colours that have been used, and I think that it links in really well with the photoshoots that i have done so far. I am interedted in the way that this work has been laid out and the use of colour that the photographer has decided to use- this is because the use of colour links in very well with shoots that I have done in the past. If i was able to ask the artist I would ask them if the objects in there work had any meaning, and why they decided to use these particular objects. I think that this would be an interesting effective question to ask because it would build your understanding of the photograph and you would be able to get more of an insight. I think if you were inside of these works of art then it would be a very exciting, adventourous place. This is because of all of the colour that has been used in the piece, and because of all of the different objects that have been used.

I think the use of vibrant colours is effective in these photographs, this is because it makes it stand out really well and makes you interested and draws you into looking at the work. I think that other people would be drawn into this work also because of the colour as I think it would catch everybodys attention. I decided to use this artist because I think that his work could give me possible ideas for my final piece from the way that he set it out, and the use of colour that he has used.

Sigmar Polke

I think that Sigma Polke’s work is interesting beccause of the use of scribbles and lines that have been put over these photographs of bright colours. I think that this is a really good technique to use because it adds something eciting and colourful to a photograph that was plain to begin with. If i was to ask this artist any question then I think It would be ‘Was there a meaning for drawing over your photographs? and if so- what was that meaning?’ I would ask that question because I think that it would give me more of an understanding of what was going on in the photograph. I decided to look at this artist because he gave me inspiration of what I could make my final piece look like. I like his use of lines and drawing over photogaphs and I think that I could use this technique in my work as one of my manual edits. I think that it would link in well beause I have based all of my photoshoots on colour and this is a good link with colour.

Kate Steciw

I decided to look at the work done by Kate Steciw as it gave me inspiration on what i could make my final piece look like.

I like the manual techniwues that she has used and the use of textures and things overlapping and coming out of the photograph. I think that this would link in really well with my work because it has a good use of colour in both her work and photoshoots that I have completed myself. I also like how she has presented one of her pieces (one on the left) in a simple frame, I plan on presenting my work in frames as I think that it looks very effective and allows not too much to be going on. I also like the work on the left that she has done and how she has included different sized shapes to cover parts of the photograph.

I think that this is interesting and has a good effective, and if I was able to I would ask her how she decided on this idea- and what the meaning is behind it. I would describe the lines, shapes, colours and textures that are in these two photographs as exciting anhd random. The lines are going in all different directions causing the piece to be random, because so muchis going on. the shapes that are in both of these pieces are all so different from eachother and are not simple squares or rectangles so this is also random but looks effective. I find this work very interesting to look at because of all of the different textures and colours that have been used. I think that the artist putting them all together was really effective because although so much is going on in the image, I think that all the shapes and the colours work really well together.

I chose to look at this artist because I liked the mix of techniques that he has used in his work. He has taken simple photographs of buildings and lanscapes that has included a good use of colour, but is quite simple. I think that it was very effective for the artist to then add splattered coloured paint over the workthis is because the colour really emphasies the whole piece.

If i was to ask this artist any question it would probably be- “how Does the paint link in with the idea behind these photographs?�. I think using colour over a simple plain image is something that should be remebered when looking at these photographs. This is because I think it is a very effective technique, although is is relatively simple. I think that it would have good use in my work because I have based my photoshoots mainly around colour, so it would be a very good link between the two. The lines, textures, colours and shapes are all very extravegent because of the paint that has been added over the top. This is because the lines and shapes were relatively normal because these photographs were of buildings and landscapes, but as soon as the paint has been added the shapes completely change because there is something going on over the top. Also the paint has added alot more colour to the piece, the photographs involved colour in the first place, but the paint over the top is alot brighter and stands out alot more.

Gerhard

Richter

Dannyson Phamm

I have decided to base my final piece photoshoot around the work of Dannyson Phamm. I decided to do this because I think that he has a very good link with the photoshoots that I have previously done- this is because my work was based soley around colour, and you can obviously tell that his work has a very strong link with colour. I think the use of colour in Phamm’s work is very effective because of how bright it is, meaning that it stands out very well to everyone who is viewing it. I like how he has used a numbr of diffrent colours in his piece’s but he has stuck to the same ones throughout- yellow, purple, orange, blue, pink and black. I also like the use of the large coloured objects in the background, I think that it links very well with the work and makes it look better.

I have taken ideas from phamm’s work and I think that it has worked well. I set up a photoshoot and chose to use a number of different colours including- Red, Blue, yellow, green, purple, orange, white and black. I decided to use these colours because the majority of them are the main colours in the colour wheel- and most of them are very bright which i think stand out well in the photographs. I then bought and painted objects which I could use for my photoshoots, I took a number of different photos each being of a different colour using a differnt coloured outfit, and a number of different coloured objects. I think that my photoshoot was effective, had a very good link to dannyson phamm, to my theme and to colour.

I also like the use of the bright coloured makeup that has been used on the models in this work. i decided to use this in my photoshoot as well to emphaise the main aim of the photoshoot is based around colour. I think that this work links in nicely with the photoshoots that I have previously done, this is because they were based around colour and so is this final photoshoot. My ideas in my previous two photoshoots were linking colour in with emotions and moods. I did a photoshoot that was based in a very colourful environment and to to contrast the bright colours I used very simple bland emotions. This is what I did in this photoshoot based on the work of dannyson Phamm. I decided to do this because eveyrhting was colourful the background, the outfit, the makeup and the objects surrounding the model. So i thought that by using simple plain emotions it would work well, and contrast the colour.

I have taken inspiration from this work and have done a photoshoot based around the idea of colour objects, environments and outfits. I then plan on linking my final piece with the work of sophie calle because she is the artist that i chose from my particular theme and have been looking at throughout this whole cour. I plan on laying my work out using her day by day and

POSSI Ide

I plan on laying my final piece out like how I have shown in the work of sophie calle’s and by using work of my own. I have decided upon this layout because sophie calle has been the artist that I have focused upon within my work and her work was photographed each day and of a different colour. So i plan on laying my work out using 7 simple frames and inside of those frames I will put each photograph that I have taken, each which I have taken on a different day- and each of a different colour. I have taken inspiration from sophie calle because of her use of colour, and how she has gone about laying out her work- and how she has used a different colour for each day. I have also taken inspiration from the photographer dannyson phamm. I took inspiration from him because i was very interested by his work, and it had an excellent link with colour. I plan on doing a re-shoot that is based on the work of dannyson phamm and laying it out how calle has layed her photographs out. I think that this is effective because it shows each day and how the colours have changed, showing a variety of different colour.

IBLE eAS

mock Monday- Victorian lace

Tuesday- Summer silk

Wednesday-

for my final piece i plan on choosing one photograph for each colour that i did my photoshoot on. I have chosen 5 because one will be for each day of the week, linking in very well with the work of sophie calle.I am then going to type out the day of the week and the colour that is in the photograph (using different names for the colour) and use it at the bottom of the picture that will be presented in a white frame. I took inspiration from the artist sophie calle when deciding on basing my work this term on colour. I have also taken inspiration from her in the way that I have decided to lay out my work, i have layed it out neatly and plan on having each photograph against a white background with a white frame. I am then going to use text aswell in my work including the day of the week, and the colour that is being represented in the photographs.I have also taken inspiration from the photographer dannyson phamm’s shoot that I have shown above. I took ideas from his work because I liked the use of colour in his work, how they were bright and vibrant and the way that the shoot was layed out.

up 1 Monochrome

Thursday- Golden Turmeric

Friday- Mai tai

I am not planning on doing any massive manual edits because I do not think that it would have much relevance to my work. the only manual edit that I plan on doing is sewing around the photograph with the same colour thread as the colour that is in the photograph. In this mock up formy final piece i also plan on keeping a diary for the whole week, and writing in it from monday- friday talking about my feelings and emotions. I have decided to do this because it links in really well with the work of sophie calle- although i have based my work on the photoshoot that she did of coloured foods i have also looked into some of her other photoshoots.

In one of her pieces of work she had recieved a letter from her boyfriend who was breaking up with her, she then decided to send this letter out to all of her friends and get them to correct the spelling and grammar, and give their opinions on it- she then displayed all of this as a piece of art work. This is where i got the idea from to keep a diary of my feelings and emotions, and it will link well with this layout because something will be shown for each day- and then you will be able to get an idea of how i was feeling on that day, after reading the diary.

I have experimented with changing the colour of the background to match the colour of the outfit and the objects that i have used in the photoshoot. I decided to do this because my main idea was a photoshoot based around colourand this makes the link alot stronger with colour. I experimented with doing this edit on photoshop by cutting around the edge of the person- i then copy and pasted the layer so that there were two overlapping eachother. I then used a colour overlay on the background and blended it so that it only showed on the background, and not over the body of the model.

This is another idea that i have for my mock ups- i plan on presenting these two photos as a3 images and then placing them in plain white frames. I will also use the text but just the day of the week and only use monday and tuesday. This is because I think this are the strongest colours because they are so bright and vibrant.

I think it will be effective to use simple white frames because the photographs are in colour, and it will also link in well with sophie calle because her layouts are very neat and precise.

MOCK UP 2

MOCK UP 3

SOPHIE CALLE’S LETTER AND MY INTERPRETATION

to go along with my final piece photographs i plan on writing a diary of my own which will go from the days monday - friday. This would go very nicely with the first mock-up that I did of using 5 photographs from mondayfriday. I have taken this idea from the artist sophie calle who i have looked at in great depth throughout this theme. The photograph on the far left shows one of her pieces of work- this particular piece of work was a breakup text from her boyfriend, calle sent it out to all of her friends and family to get their opinions on it and to get all of them to correct any spelling or grammar. I think that this would make the piece very personal because it would be me writing how i feel during the week and what I am doing from day to day. I have done an example on the left which shows 3 different days and they are just small samples of what i may write.

I have experimented with adding thread to the diary pages to express the colour that it focused on for that particular day of the week.

I believe that this idea includes literal, symbolic and cultural ideas. It is literal because it is literally saying what i am doing and how i am feeling from monday- friday. the diary would also be symbolic because it is symbolising my feelings and my emotions , and finally it is cultural because of the time period in which it is set, which is now the year that i am living in.

EvaluationFinal Piece For my final piece I have decided to use the first mock- up that i planned, which is using 5 photographs from Monday- Friday and using words underneath that say the day of the week and then a different name for each colour.I have decided to also combine it with the last mock up that i did that was based on sophie calles work as well and i will write a diary of what i am doing and my feelings from monday to friday. I decided to use this one because I think that it linked in better with the work of Sophie Calle because of the way that i chose to lay it out- this is because there is a number of different images being shown and they all have white backgrounds which i think worked well with each different colour that i chose.I like the second and third mockup that I completed because I would have presented only one photograph and that would have been at a larger scale. However I decided to not carry forward with this idea because when adjusting the background colour on photoshop it was not always easy to go perfectly around the model, so there were no white spaces left. I also did not carry forward with the third or second mock up because it did not link to the work of sophie calle as much, this is in the layout because sophie calle used a number of different images in her work that were taken over a number of different days and if I was to of gone further with this mock up then I would only be using one image for my final piece.

I also decided on the first mock up to taken forward for my final piece because I like the use of the writing combined onto the photographs. I have written the day of the week and then a different work for each colour that the model is wearing in the photograph. I think that this links in well with sophie calle’s work because that it how she has layed out her work but i decided to use different names for the colours instead of yellow,orange, red etc. to make it more interesting. I think that the images that I have chosen for the first mock up show more of a variety and I think that these images are stronger than the ones that I presented in especially my second mock up. I think that they are stronger because they show more of a variety- images taken closer up, some from further away and from different angles. I think that this is very effective because it shows that I have used a number of differnet techniques when I was taking these photographs. I think that this idea for my final piece would explore literal, technical and culutral ideas. This is mainly because of the diary that I plan on writing from monday to friday- It would be literal because i am literally writing how i am feeling and what i am doing from monday-friday, symbolic because it symbolises how i am feeling over the week and cultural because of the time period that it is written in, which is now.