Reverting some old posts to draft

Ok, today's been fairly active blogger-wise & looking through my old posts here I've decided some need re-vamping, updating & completing :) x

Wish i'd done this earlier, I'd have gotten graded for it. I'm enjoying doing it now though. Love keeping creatively active, learning & discovering things as well as becoming newly inspired. I may not have chosen a specialism at college, well, not more defined than working in the creative industries & for me at the moment that's alright. I'm happy doing what I'm doing at the moment & I'm doing well, i think.

Jason deCaires

http://www.ohparasite.com/2011/10/jason-decaires-taylors-underwater.html

Damien Hirst Fertility 'Verity'

Not someone i thought i'd be blogging about in a positive manner tbh after his work with butterflies.
Daily Mail -RSPCA-attacks--Damien-Hirst-exhibition. watched-9-000-butterflies-die-walls

I did my final essay of my BTEC on Fertility & today i stumble on a news tid-bit about a statue of his being erected in Ilfracombe, Devon (UK), i google it & find this isn't his first encounter with exploring the idea of fertility in art.

I made myself vaguely familiar with his work in the first year of my BTEC, so I'm aware this isn't his first piece depicting human biology or Fertility in particular.

1. Mother & Child Divided (1993)
2. Sensation (2003) - Extreme close up of a 
3. Wretched War (2004)
4. The Virgin Mother (2005)
5. Virgin (Exposed) (2005)
6. Birth Cyrus (2006)
7. We're Born, We Look Around, We Die (2006)
8. Infertility [Male] (2007)
9. Feminizing Testicle (2007)
10. Malignant Testicle Tumour (2007)
11. Verity (2012)
    

    

    The Virgin Mother (2005)

    

    Virgin (Exposed) 2005

    

    Wretched War (2004)

Facts about Verity

• At 20.25m from plinth to sword-tip, Verity is slightly taller than the Angel Of The North
• She weighs more than 25 tonnes
• Verity is described a modern-day allegory for truth and justice
• The figure's stance is taken from Edgar Degas' Little Dancer of Fourteen Years (c. 1881) referenced by Hirst in his earlier bronze Virgin Mother (2005)
• She holds the traditional symbols denoting Justice - a sword and scales - though the scales are hidden behind her back
• Hirst's website notes: "Without the perfect equilibrium enacted by the scales, the sword becomes a dangerous instrument of power, rather than justice"
• Verity was made in more than 40 individual castings at Pangolin Editions foundry in Gloucestershire
• The entire piece has been tested to ensure it can withstand high winds and sea spray

the above 3 images are from a local paper close to Verity

http://www.northdevongazette.co.uk/news/one_foot_on_the_pier_for_damien_hirst_statue_1_1506335

Something From Damien Hirst

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17589754

her Erection
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19881524

Landscape+Urbanism: Tree Art Revisited

Landscape+Urbanism: Tree Art Revisited

Gnomon school of visual arts

http://www.gnomonschool.com/student_work/gallery/index.php

one of my favourite artists is currently at this school

image URL: http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/283821_10150279228030839_7914335838_7359932_8255328_n.jpg

Reiq -  & yes im aware his work is seriously sexual &  that may not be deemed 'appropriate'

image url: http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v601/12/42/7914335838/n7914335838_958610_5750.jpg

POP-ART spin off Coca Cola 125 years

this blog accompanies a coke bottle plastic sleeve with an example of coca colas 125th anniversary pop-art cans... pop art on pop...

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=coca+cola+retro+ads+art,+125+years&hl=en&safe=off&biw=1728&bih=930&tbm=isch&tbnid=vtiI6f_HSiiC3M:&imgrefurl=http://www.coca-cola.co.uk/125/&docid=Dw62oydskfoOOM&imgurl=http://www.coca-cola.co.uk/content/en_GB/img/125/LM_706x264_2801_KEY-ART_FAMILY_SHARING.jpg&w=706&h=264&ei=7ce2Tpv4KcKX8gPWzuCxCw&zoom=1

Coca Cola Celebrates 125 years: http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/2011/coca-cola-celebrates-125-years/

http://hotchypotch.blogspot.com/2011/05/one-of-my-favourite-things-turns-125_09.html

http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/check-out-125th-anniversary-coke-cans-around-world-134308

http://www.adweek.com/files/imagecache/node-blog/blogs/125_coke_can_designs_0.jpg

there are more designs shown on the above website :) 

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6230/6272950701_4131511e00.jpg

http://www.dionlabel.com/tl_files/dion/images/Ashley's%20Blog/Coca%20Cola%20125%20years.jpg

Spin off art

image URL: http://th09.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2011/174/0/e/125_years_of_coca_cola_by_raduserban-d3jr85t.jpg
Image found at: 

http://da-art-gallery.deviantart.com/gallery/29048743#/d3jr85t

artists to look into

Nichole De Carle - Lingerie
name discovered during an incidental episode of 'Great British hairdresser' on earlier this morning while iw as eating breakfast


more lingerie artists (seriously bloody gorgeous!!!!)
http://hsharman.blogspot.com/2010/12/maybe-degree-is-worth-it-after-all.html



Jamie Hewlett - Comic artist
Punk
creation: Tank Girl, Gorillaz (music group artwork)
recommended by a friend only known as Spoony McMooch
he can be found at: http://skuzzmunch.blogspot.com/


Jason Thielke

Shepard fAIREY

there are others but firstly for my contextual folder i plan on printing the images i created during the various tripswith college & probably those without for my contextual folder.

i've been tryin to find my sketchbook from over the summer when i went to YSP twice
they're in my room somewhere, tis just a matter of finding exactly where.... i thought it was in one place but after lookin there a few times, removing everything else & putting things back i still haven't found it...