The first of our summer projects was to to choose one of our favourite films and draw or sketch 18 sequels. I chose ..MATILDA, my childhood favourite!!
Miss Trunchbul calls everyone to the assembly hall and picks on Bruce Bogtrotter to eat an entire chocolate cake as punishment for him having sneaked a piece of her cake. I have had a similar experience myself when I was younger. I couldnt finish my dinner and because I loved peanut butter on toast so much, my dad made me a mountain of it for me to eat instead and I couldn't leave the table until I had finished....haha my dad had to eat the rest because it was far too much. I just loved Bruce's face when the dinner lady comes out with the rest of the cake, always makes me laugh.
I'll pop a few sketches of them on when I can!
The second project was to make up a little story and tell it through five images, and we also had to tell it through a choice of a point of view for example, birds eye or worms eye etc! We were given a book called the Imaginary Beings to pick our characters from. This book contains descriptions of mythical creatures, from fairies to creatures that can turn into a sausage. So my head was spinning with all sorts of crazy ideas for stories that I was trying up with ....it was really exciting though because I love a challenge.
So below are my five images that I tried to do from a worms eye view in plasticine...just not done all that well (lesson learned) as I also tried to get that look in a bit more with the angle I photographed them at but maybe had I done the images at a different view point they may have looked slightly better! But these plasticine images are the first pictures I've ever created with the inspiration I got from Barbara Reid who creates the most amazing plasticine art work for children's stories!! I've always wanted to work with plasticine because I do love creating scene's and images but I also love making and sculpting too, so working with plasticine I get to do both! And the second I saw Barbara's work was the influence, the inspiration and the motivation that I have been looking for, that I've wanted and that I've needed...she is my absolute hero!
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| The ship wrecked sailor's boat is just to weak for the waves at, so he has to try and swim to land but is struggling! |
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| Luckily for him there's a woman bird that see's the man struggling and flies to his rescue. The sea horse is trying to bite him and pull him back but they manage to get away! |
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| The bird woman pulls him to dry land and laughs at the sailor for having being frightened of the sea horse, with out realising that there's a two headed serpent coming up behind her! |
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| The woman birds is grateful and thanks the sailor. Just when they think its all over the serpent behind them starts growing its heads back with two more beside them! |
Another part of this project was to make a 3D sculpture of one of our characters form the story in anyway that we wanted. And I decided to make a sculpture of my woman bird with miliput, which was influenced by a few artists that I came across one day and they are both so incredibly talented.
I went weak at the knee when I found the work of Abi Monroe, there so elegant and beautifully detailed.
These two figures made by artist Rene Muhl capture your eye instantly because there figures are decorated with different materials and colour. They are so unique and different....I wish I could say that I did this.
So Ive made a start on making my sculpture using miliput which is like clay but after about an hour or so it goes rock hard so you have to make sure you know what your sculpting before your start using it. I haven't finished with it just yet
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