The Design Cycle

The Design Cycle

 

 

 

 

You start at the theme. This will normally be given to you in the form of a brief. Next comes the research with normally includes both primary and secondary. During this step you will mostly be asked to produce mood bards, visual sheets and maybe even  critical studies of relative artist the brief asks you to look at. Artist research come after this step as then now you know which type of artists to look for to support your ideas and that are relevant to your outcome. In the design stage you will be asked to make a sheet such as for your simple ideas. Next come the development step. This is where you can choose your best ideas and develop them in a few ways before choosing the idea your going to create for your final piece. Now you have chosen that idea for your final piece you can now start to experiment with sample to see which ways are good and possible to make for your final piece. Next is the step where you have to make your final piece. Once made you have only one step left... The Evaluation Stage. On this step normally you will be asked to write about 1000 words to evaluate what went well, what didn't go so well, what you'd do different if you was to do this again, how well you managed your time and also your overall thoughts of the project.       

Glossary

 

Glossary

• Wash

- to apply water or some other liquid to (something or someone) for the purpose of cleansing; cleanse by dipping, rubbing, or scrubbing in water or some other liquid.

• Bleeding 

 - the extension of colour beyond an edge or border, especially so as to combine with a contiguous color or to affect an adjacent area.

• Sponging

- to wipe or rub with or as with a wet sponge, as to moisten or clean.

• Stamping

-  to mark or impress with a design, word, mark, etc.:

• Lifting

- to move or bring (something) upward from the ground or other support to a higher position; hoist.

• Stippling

- to paint, engrave, or draw by means of dots or small touches.

• Stencilling

- a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface.

• Tearing

- shedding tears.

• Pop Up

- having pieces of artwork fastened to the pages so that when the page is opened, a three-dimensional cutout or object is formed and, sometimes, movement of a picture element, such as a door opening, can be activated by pulling a tab.

• Line

- a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface.

• Tracing 

- a copy of a drawing, map, plan, etc., made by tracing on a transparent sheet placed over the original.

• Doodling

- a design, figure, or the like, made by idle scribbling.

• Sketching

-  a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.

• Blind Contour Drawing 

- done by looking intently at the edge of an object, but never looking at the paper while the pencil moves.

• Continuous Contour Drawing

-  drawing a picture continuously without picking up our pencil from the paper.

• Modified Contour Drawing

- Is done when the artist looks intently at EDGES of an object, but rarely looks at the paper while the pencil moves.

• Collage

- a technique of composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials not normally associated with one another, as newspaper clippings, parts of photographs, theater tickets, and fragments of an envelope.

• Size

- the spatial dimensions, proportions, magnitude, or bulk of anything.

• Scale

- to adjust in amount according to a fixed scale or proportion (often followed by down or up) 

• Colour

- the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.

• Media

- In the art and science of architecture, the design and construction of buildings and interiors, infrastructure and other physical structures are created. It can involve multiple disciplines of brickwork, carpentry, engineering, stonemasonry and many other skills.

 



3D Workshop Glossary

 

3D Workshop Glossary

 

 

1) Wood Planer - you use this take off corners of a cuboid shape piece of wood. 

 

 



 

2) Pillar Drill - you use this to pit holes into pieces of wood neatly, these can be big or little.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3) Band Saw - this is used to cut fast and efficiently  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4) Fret Saw - This can be used to cut out pieces that are very small.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5) Bobbin Sander - this is used to sand thing that maybe in the middle of a piece of wood.



 

 

 





 

 6) Belt / Disk Sander - this is used to sand curved things as well as straight things too.  

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 7) Wood Turning Lathe - this is used to create things like olden chair legs from wood.

 

 

8) Wood Turning Lathe Tools - these are used to make different impressions in the wood as your turning it on the wood turning lathe.  

 



All Artist Research

Joseph Cornell - My 3D Artist 

 

 

Joseph Cornell was not a sculptor, a draftsman, or a painter. This freely renowned contemporary artist never had professional education. He was first and foremost a collector. He loved to rummage old book shops and second hand stores of new York looking for souvenirs, theatrical memorabilia, old prints and photographs, music scores, and French literature.

Joseph Cornell was born on December 24th 1903. He was the oldest of four children born to Helen and Joseph Cornell. He had two sisters, Betty and Helen, and a brother, Robert.
Cornell grew up in a grand house in Nyack, New York, a picturesque Victorian town on the Hudson River. Cornell's parents shared their love of music, ballet, and literature with their children. Evenings were spent around the piano, or listening to music on the family Victorian. Trips to New York meant vaudeville shows in Times Square or magic acts at the Hippodrome. His father often returned from his job in Manhattan with new sheet music, silver charms, or a pocket full of candy. But Cornell's childhood was not without sadness. His brother, born with cerebral palsy, was confined to a wheelchair. Joseph, who was extremely attached to Robert, became his principal caretaker.  
 
 



Blue 1 Cobalt, 2014
Thea Fiore-Bloom PhD (Southern California)
acrylic on cigar box with silver, glass, moonstone, mirror, photos and glass pieces
4" x 5" x 9" (10 x 13 x 23 cm)
Photo by Scott Chanson




The maker of this Joseph Cornell inspired box said this on his website; "My boxes sprang out of a coupling of my love for Cornell's work and the writing of my dissertation Seeing Things Differently: Personal Objects as Icons of Soul. I made several series of boxes to explore and organize my thoughts about things." 

Vincent Van Gogh - Sketchbook Artist

 

Van Gogh has always been a big inspiration for me growing up. this was because; although he was thought to be mad and crazy in his own time, nowadays he is one of if not the most famous artist that has ever lived. I'm still not sure why this is but I love the fact that no matter how much criticism someone gives you other will have a different view which others may agree with in time. In my sketchbook I looked at three of Van Gogh painting which were all painted in 1884,1886 & 1888 in his final years before he killed himself in 1890. 

The first image of his I looked at was titled; Young Man with a Pipe. Van Gogh drew this image on watercolour paper using drawing pencils and transparent watercolours in 1884. I did a critical study of this piece of work. I don't think that this ended well as I drew the young man's hat too small. If I was to redo this I would make sure I got the scale and size of all the image correct before I began shading. 

       

The next painting I looked at was Van Gogh's Café Terrace Place Du Forum. He painted this in Ales in 1888. The painting is really eye-catching and has a good set of foreground and background. This has been created by the dark colours in the back and the light vibrant colours in the front. I also like the light detail on the night sky as this was his signature style in a few of his other paintings.


Van Gogh's painting of Vase with red Poppies is very bright, happy and focused on the poppies in the vase. To say that he painted greengage too shows that he was trying to capture both sides of the colours wheel and could also suggest that he was looking in to emotional whist painting this. Van Gogh painted this image of the poppies in the vase in Paris in the summer of 1886. Van Gogh used oils on a canvas to create this piece of art.     

 

Pablo Picasso - Sketchbook Artist

 

Born in Málaga, Spain, in 1881, Pablo Picasso, became one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century and one of the creators of Cubism. A Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and stage designer, Picasso was considered radical in his work. After a long prolific career, he died on April 8, 1973, in Mougins, France. For nearly 80 of his 91 years, Picasso devoted himself to an artistic production that contributed significantly to—and paralleled the entire development of—modern art in the 20th century. One of the most appealing paintings which draws me to his work is the self portrait he painted in 1907. The image on the left is the self portrait of himself from 1907. 

Bob Ross - Sketchbook Artist

 

Bob Ross, television's famous painting instructor, was born Robert Norman Ross in Daytona, Florida, on October 29, 1942. He was raised in Orlando, Florida. After dropping out of school in the ninth grade, Ross served in the U.S. Air Force. During his service, he took his first painting lesson at an Anchorage, Alaska United Service Organizations club. From that point on, he was "hooked," a term he would use frequently during his years as a painting instructor.

The Joy of Painting was cancelled in 1994 so that Ross could focus on his health; the famous TV instructor and host had been diagnosed with lymphoma around that same time.
Ross died from lymphoma at the age of 52, on July 4, 1995, in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. The majority of his original oil paintings were donated to charities or to PBS stations. Today, Ross remains one of the best-known and highest-paid American painters. His legacy lives on through a number of facets, including a fan-based Twitter page of more than 15,000 followers.
Many of his pieces of work was created during the show which was only about 30 minuets long so to create what he did in the time he had amazed me deeply. The first episode of the show I watched was when he painted mountains on series 13 episode 10.        

 

I love this because although it looked very detailed, he
 really only did this with different brush strokes
and thought about the lighting and shading on the mountains & trees.

  

Nick Ridley - Photography Artist

 

Nick Ridley has been involved in photographing dogs for over 30 years and in 1998 he started what has become one of the highest profile and most respected dog event photography businesses in the country. During 2011 he took over 45,000 dog related images ranging from dogs working in their natural environment to dogs being shown at the worlds most prestigious dog show, Crufts. Nick worked as an Inspector for a well known animal charity for 12 years prior to setting up his business and it his experience in that field that enables him to work with difficult and nervous animals and he regularly works for many of the UK's leading animal charities, he always puts the care and welfare of any animal before the taking of any photograph. Although known mainly for his dog photography Nick has also photographed cats, horses and various other small domestic animals for a number of commercial clients including pet food manufacturers and book publishers.
In 2010 Nick developed the first dog photography courses to be held in the UK and over the past two years he has taken these courses to Scandinavia and to various locations throughout the UK. Nick has written two books on photographing dogs and domestic pets, he has also published two coffee tables books "Labradors...At Work, Rest and Play" and "Spaniels" both of which have gone on to be international sellers. Nick is gundog editor for the Sporting Shooting magazine and regularly writes for a number of other publications. Nick has undertaken commissions worldwide and has made numerous radio and television appearances. 

              
 

My Colour Mixing Recipe

My Colour Mixing Recipe

1) Choose your colour you are wanting to mix. For this I have chosen my colour from a Dimensions Dulux Colour swatch; the colour code was, 2060B50G. This is the second colour down on the image. 

2) Next you need to gather all of your equipment. These are the following; 

- Binder

- plastic cups work best for this
- Minerprint pigment (Blue B)
- Lollipop sticks 
- gloves 
- an apron
- a 50mls measuring cup

3) To begin with you have put your gloves and apron on. Then to make this particular colour of 2060B50G, you will need to get your 50mls measuring cup and measure out 50mls of the binder into the plastic cup. once you have used your meauring cup, before using it again make sure you clear it first. 

4) Now you have to get your lollipop stick. Using the tip oh the stick only; dip one end into the pop of the miner-print pigment to add the colour to your binder. Once you have a little bit of the colour in your binder use the same stick to mix it well till there is a flat colour. 

5) So this colour I needed a little bit more pigment and binder so I kept using a new stick every time to avoid contamination to the binder and pigments. If the colour needs to be brighter then add a little bit of binder to your mix, but if you think you are not quite on shade, add more pigment until your happy you have the colour your aiming for.