New Project and brain storming!

So we`ve moved on to a new project straight away, this one is on the Flaws and Perfections or the Ideals and Compromises within a certain topic.

The teachers chose the project that the year 13 group have just finished off, so we`ve already got some initial ideas and starting points to work from right now. I`m going for a personal topic again, so i`ve been trying to avoid talking about the project to the teachers as much as the last few times as it turns out that the teachers didn`t even know about the matter. 

My project will be on the Flaws and Perfections in the mental health illness Psychosis. I`ve had the illness when i was seven and i still have it to this day; i had a breakdown when i was about 12 or 13 and that`s when my mum found out. I tried to keep it a secret as i thought that my own mum would think that i was crazy or insane.
But it got really bad so i had a little bit of a breakdown and that`s when my mum found out; we went to the doctors and got referred to CHAMS for a psychiatrist. I`ve been through so many psychiatrists and i`ve never stuck with one as they always give me someone else quite quickly. i`ve only ever stuck with one women called Lisa Kennedy, and she`s the only reason that i got even just a little bit of help; she gave me medication and helped e out in all sorts of ways. But it`s still been hard for me as the problem has always been there and hasn`t gone, yet. 

So this one is going to be the most personal one to me, I am looking forward to it but then again it`s hard to explain to the teachers and other students. I don`t want to make everyone feel awkward with me choosing such a personal project, but ehhh, i`m gonna do it anyways and i`m looking forward to it now. 

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Project 2, Final Piece and Extreme Disappointment...

So we`ve just finished out second project... But since the whole thing had to be done in an Exam, i`ve ended up being extremely disappointed with my final piece and i know that if it didn`t have to be done in a set time then i would of been able to make it look sooo much better than it did.

I`m not really looking forward to it going up in exhibition; if i could go back and make improvements to this, then i really would but obviously we only had two days to do the piece so i can no longer even touch it now. The only thing i`m aloud to do, and only when there`s a teacher around, is move it out of the way or move it so i can take pictures of it for my sketchbooks. 

 To start off with, i had the most basic background to work on top off. I just put some ink in a bottle and sprayed it all over the background, then i used stencils and sprayed bleach over the top off of it so it would turn yellowy. It`s sprayed all around the edges, under the shelves and randomly over the stencils, i didn`t plan this part out since it was just a very small first layer which i could then apply stuff over the top of.
So the first few layers i added where pretty simple; those square pieces of pale fabric are actually emulsion prints that i had done before hand and then just glued it on. I wasn`t too bothered about the way they looked because i knew that when everything was stuck on there and it was complete then it wouldn`t really matter as to what they looked like; they`re mainly just something to add a bit more extra bulk to the final thing.
Then the green/brown layer is simply crushed pastels and leaves mixed into a very thin paste with water and PVA glue... If it wasn`t thin enough then there would just be huge blobs of this disgusting looking paste all over the board. It all had to be the same consistency and it had to be thin enough so you could still see a bit of the colour coming through from the first layer that i had applied.

After that i used a thicker version of the paste to go around the small emulsion prints, but it didn`t look right to everyone else because the emulsion prints where so pale and the colours around them where too dark.
Then i added the pieces of fabric that went over the shelves; It was just plain white fabric when i first got hold of it. I didn`t use dyes on the fabric, i just bits of ink that then bled out into the fibres of the fabric which then saved me time. I also screen printed small feathers over the top first in grey, then over again with black so you could see them just a bit more since all of the ink and splashes had died out the colour a bit. The shelves where only small and couldn`t hole that much, but the fabric neatened up the finish on the wood as it was covered in scratches; i didn`t want to bother the DT technician that much so i just took some scraps for the shelves.
So i then added the small laser cut pieces i did underneath the shelf... Was very painful. I had to stick them on with hot glue and there was no room at all to lie my board down so i had to do it as it was leaning up against a cupboard. So i had to hot glue gun them on and hold them in place with my index finger which was then very sore afterwards.

In the end i added more cardboard cut out pieces then i was going too, two different canvas` with seals on them, flowers and small objects on the shelves. Everything on the piece that acts as a border to another object is done with natural materials and then the border to the actual final piece is done with glass and crushed wooden pieces.
Even the borders to the two small canvas` are done with small branches that where covered in blossom before i got my hands on them.

I actually hate this piece... Out of all of the work i`ve done out of my first two projects; i seriously just want to rip everything off of this specific piece. The design seemed better when i had drawn it out and when it was in my head, but when it was on the board something just didn`t seem right with it... I don`t know if it was the colour scheme or the layout in general that makes it look off, but something definitely isn`t right with the piece and i really don`t want this to go up in exhibition.



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Photography And A Bit Of Therapy

So if you keep up with my Live Diary blog then you would know that i`ve been ill recently and have came off of some mediation. I hardly ever leave the house nowadays, so since i was feeling down in the dumps, i went for a little walk with David down to a very isolated area that is pretty tucked away.
But it`s awesome, so i`m gonna show you!

 So where i live, there`s this huge industrial estate behind me; it`s mainly for recycling but there is a safe distance in-between the houses and the factories. Every now and then, there are explosions and loud disturbing noises; but since it`s a wonderful place to live we really don`t mind.

But if you walk down the main road that leads straight down between the factories. At the end of the road there is a row of bushes and there is a small dirt path that leads down to this little section of water.
You have to go down into a dip and there, there is a small stream then you go up the dip on the other side. The only thing is that when it rains, the path floods and when we went down the water had just settled back down.

 So when you get out of this little dip surrounded by tress, you end up on the nut-brook trail. These trails go all around england and i think they`re all supposed to be connected together (I think); but they go on for miles and miles so it`s hard to walk down them for a few hours. Everything looks the same so you never know how far down the Trail you are.

So the area that i go down is actually part of an old coal mining industry, the factories that run along the back of this place are quite old and used to belong to the miners as storage space. However, it`s completely mined out... There is another place in Ilkeston that has an abandoned coal mining section (We used to be famous for mining), but that was bombed by the Germans 7 times as the Viaduct ran across the edge of; luckily for Ilkeston, every bomb missed the Viaduct and hit the mining areas, meaning that there are still huge holes in the ground that are filled up with water as a place for local wildlife.
Luckily, this area of mining was never targeted so it`s flat and very stony and tracks ran through it. One side is completely fenced off but someone has obviously been down and torn a hole in another fence to get in. Then you can walk down the other side which leads you behind factories and then runs through a place called Stanton.

But it`s lovely to walk down there, it goes on for a long time and it`s quite and out of the way. Obviously it`s bumpy and stuff but it`s out of the way, it`s quite and it`s just nice to be by yourself and go for a walk every now and then. Since i was ill (at the time, late upload) It was nice to get out of the house, but the next morning i was sick so i had to have a day off of Sixth Form... :/


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