Over view of weeks 3 and 4

unfortunately i forgot to do an over view of week 3 and i havent put much stuff up recently which i have so i will be posting that tomorrow, (that being the out of book work)

Week 3
i drew my singing teacher playing the sax while her husband played the double bass. i used multiple medias and different colours. it was while looking at these that i found i could look at the connection between colour and sound.

i made a short questionnaire of what are your three favourite instruments what sound do you feel it makes and what colour would you apply to these instruments and sounds. i printed around 20 of them.

Week 4
we did a collage work shop so i worked using the idea of combineing instruments with humans which wasnt very good at the start but when i started using different media they started looking quite nice.

i want to try looking at merging more objects and humans with instruments however i feel like I've come to a dead end and i didn't get much work done which im not happy about.

Over view of past week 2

Really two things happened last week that was the London trip and the Observational drawings of my singing teacher.

First the London trip

I went to the V and A and looked for instruments but unfortunately there were less than I expected being mostly forms of pianos (grand and harpsichord) and then I tried to combine the drawings with passers by which went okish.

Jam Session Observations

Yesterday I drew my singing teacher and her husband playing the sax and double bass which was so much fun to listen too  I found that the double bass makes me think of deep green while the sax makes me think of a bright orange. When played together they seem to be bright green and strong red.

I also found out about an artist called jenny soep who draws musicians while they perform which I really like I have yet to add her to my book.

Other Jam Session Artwork

This piece is hard to see what it is because I used a thin pen on music scores that had just been painted with water colour I wanted to try it with a bit more variety. I used the brown and yellows because those are the colour of the instruments

I'm not sure about this one, I like its positioning and idea so musical scores and drawings seperate but the drawing seems very lack luster. I used the colour of the instruments sound but the drawing is very poor. It was first drawn in pencil then the chalk went on top.

I really don't like this one it's too basic and has no feeling to it. It's just grey and dull. I used grey to try and use more grey and black media but it was a bad idea.

I first did water colour block of the double bass then went over in pen but because it was wet the pen faded and didn't leave enough of a mark but it doesn't look too bad.

Musical Jam Session

This picture was done on stretched paper. It is of my singing teacher and her husband playing the sax and the double bass.

I started by doing a rough drawing in pencil of them and then drew another one in pen, not going over the pencil but using it as a guideline so that the pen was proportionet (this was mainly for the double bass because it's massive). 

I wanted to apply more colour so I used water colours on the instruments but it felt empty. Using chalk I drew blocks of the instrument heads.

I chose the colour of the chalk specific to the sound the instrument gave off. So a double bass produces a deep mellow tone which made think of the deep green while a sax is active and bright like the colour orange. I wish that the two of them were closer in the picture because they were in real life so I'm disappointed and the chalk became a bit over whelming.

London trip

Yesterday we went on a college trip to London where we had the freedom to go any where in London. I chose to stay in the V&A because I expected there to be a music section with lots of instruments. Not as many as I had hoped but I still took what I could. As well as the instruments I saw suits of armour which related to my friends brief, Asian ceramics which I liked and a fancy sofa which after 4 hours of walking looked like a wonderful bed.

COLLAGE! Yaaaaayyy........

I felt like these got worse and worse as I tried to work into them I am not happy with them.

Music Prints

These are the prints I did based off of the collages I did in print making the blue one got creased so it has some brilliant marks in it reminds me of electricity. The torn edges make me think of electric guitars and the electric music genre.

Over View of the past week

i began my final major project (FMP) at college. In the FMP we can choose our own theme and for me i decided on music after much debate with both myself and the tutors. during the week i did observational drawings of-

• broken cello
• broken african drum
• broken violin
• ukelele
• some one playing the ukelele
• a saxaphone
• guitar
• guitar being played 
• piano being played
• piano

i also decided to focus my theme on three things Jazz, Musicals and singing i have only written about jazz music a little.

I did a lot of collage using both the instruments as a starting point and my imagination.