Artist research - John Holcroft

Through this project I've looked into the corruption in government and politics a little which lead me to the artist John Holcroft who is an illustrator looking into how the money and governments around the world are corrupt and only want to help them selves with images on a cigarette burning away with money acting as the tobacco and others making us look at how the people in charge will always blame those below them. His work is very political with his influence on the work he has produced. For me it shows how the corruption of our governments and the way our world is run.

Artist research - Pez

Looking into artists through my project I've looked at the French artist PEZ looking at his fine detailed pieces on the decaying of buildings and characters he creates with pencil and fine liners. This helped me to look into and recreate a piece of my own design on a corrupt police officer with a gas mask to show how he only cares about himself even though his job is to serve and protect those in need.

Artist research - Kwangho Shin

Through this project I've looked at artists such as Kwangho shin and his work looking into the darkness of people's souls making a portrait with acrylic paint of a rough silhouette of a face adding little colour like reds pinks oranges and blues to brighten up his pieces and from my view adding a little bit of good to the darkened soul showing there is still good in the person. For my research I have recreated his pieces but with oil pastels to get a rougher effect on the paper. This artist I enjoyed looking at as it really sparked my project off and how I could look into the corruption of people.

Research on material

In this project on corruption and decay I've looked into aspects of decay in metal and wood with burning and general decay over time how the wood bends and becomes frail as well as it burning away losing its colour and blackening looking corrupt and taken a new form along with the burning of cloth as it shrinks and crumples up.

FMP Corruption / Decay

For my FMP ( final major project ) I have chosen the subject of Corruption with a range of paths I can follow with the word corruption I can produce a range of pieces going into 3D work as well as drawing and painting I aim to create a range of work to show my view on the subject.

The word corruption also links in with decay, delinquency, crime, fraud... so I can use this to my advantage with my love for looking into the dark and gritty parts of the world and my surroundings looking at the finer detail in everything creating pieces that will really capture people's attention with my work.

I aim to make this project my most detailed yet looking into as many aspects of corruption and decay I can.

Day 6 of my 3D memories model

Here I have used my class mate and my idea and cut the panels down and slot them in between the metal support rods. Now I carefully sanded them down making sure they would slot in and not be sanded down too much that they would fall out.

Now that the side panels are sorted now I am going to use "mod podge matte" to transfer my images onto wood this way my structure looks better and there aren't glue stains and ruined photos with creases all over my structure.

Day 5 of my 3D memories model

Here I measured out the side panels for my structure, this I did on one large sheet making sure I didn't waste material as well as making it easier and quicker to cut out all the pieces. Once the pieces were cut out I sanded them down so they'd fit perfectly.

Unfortunately I sanded the edges a little too much and they fell out so me and my class mate came up with the idea of cutting them down to fit in between the metal rods, this made the structure look better and the pieces would fit better this way showing off more of the structure in the process.