#luimneach

This is my final design for my album design. I am quite happy with the result. I think that it looks better on the screen in comparison to being printed on paper.

I attended Fridays Type & Image workshop. We were given an introduction to Photoshop, particularly looking at how to manipulate images and use type. It took a bit of getting used to working on a Macbook, but it got easier the more I used it.

We were given a brief of re-designing an album cover while working our movement project into it.

This below was my first draft.

I featured a live hand. This is from a photograph I captured. At first I thought that there was nothing to work with, but when I went to working, I found that isolating the hand itself makes it really powerful. It's such a simple thing, but it translates quite well I think.

For my background I featured a textured skin like image, and edited that. I really like the contrast of the the background and the foreground.

I chose Massive Attack's Unfinished Sympathy as my album of choice, as I really love their music. The artwork for the bands album actually features a hand.

We went to painting on Thursday with Sylvia. We mixed the paint, and created a 3 tone palette. We were then given some card to use the edge of to create lines on the page. We first did some thumbnails.

From that we chose which composition to create on the page.

I did 3 of these drawings, and my final painting was my favourite I think.

I used some indian ink and made some impressions of hands. I got some people to manipulate their hands in interesting ways, and photographed these. I put a plain white backdrop of card behind so that I could witness some shadows and incorporate them as it would make for much a more interesting composition.

I used a mixture of bamboo and brushes to do them. I wanted to capture the essence of the live hand on a flat 2d media.

I progressed my bad spud, so that it was more diseased and "bad" looking.

I like it's "rawness". It translates quite a natural atmosphere I feel.

I was very enthusiastic about entering the 3d clay room, having heard of others that had tried it out.

When I went in, I spoke to Mary and explained my very little knowledge of clay. She walked me through the different methods of making, including how to make a sphere. I never realised that in order to create a sphere, it has to be hollow in the middle, as opposed to a big ball of clay. To make the sphere you make two "pinch pots" and bond them together using slip (watered down clay used as a "glue"). This sounds a lot easier than it actually was. It takes a bit of patience but is okay once you get the hang of it!

I found the moulding and shaping of the clay sphere so therapeutic. There was something so lovely about the feeling of it in my hands. I also loved the messiness of it.

I used tools to create a varied surface on the apple, giving it that hyper-realistic state. It helped to refer to an actual apple.

I hope to paint the apple once it is finished in the kiln.

360° of the apple: