Tracy the Parade Horse

Using the automatic drawings and the designs that i had done for the horse from the parade i then decided to have a go at making it. I made it by making a simple structure out of wire which i then covered with glue and tissue paper. I used these materials as when i made made the hoodening horse i found that the materials that i used became too heavy, making it hard and slightly impractical to use. Using these materials worked well as they made the structure really light and easy to use but still strong enough that it can be handled and won't brake easily. 

Puppet Mechanism Experiment

As i had done some designs for a puppet for the horse for parade i then decided to try out one of the puppet mechanisms i had looked into. I made it using simple material, i used wood for the structure, made a hinge out of cardboard then using part of a rubber band to act as a spring to keep the mouth closed. I then used a piece of string to use to open the mouth. This mechanism work well for a puppet as is simple to make an still effective the only thing is that instead of using a piece of cardboard i could have use a hinge or something more durable as i don't think that cardboard would last very long when been used.

Parade Horse

After accidentally doing an automatic design for a hours i then decided to do a few quick designs for the horse that is in parade.

Collage

After doing research in to the 1960's, pop art and Richard Hamilton, so i then tried to create my own college using cut up pictures from magazines. I tried to work in a similar way to Richard Hamilton by using the images to create a scene. I don't think that it worked very well as it didn't turn out as i imagined, i think that it may have worked better if all the images were of a similar scale to what it should be and if there were more images to help complete the scene. 

Automatic Drawing

Whilst doing one of the automatic drawing session i created this image whilst i wasn't thinking what i was doing but just drawing. I created it by just drawing shapes and then adding on to it with different shapes then end result reminded me of a horse or some other similar animal.

Automatic Painting

After doing research in to abstract expressionism and the 1950's i then did some automatic painting base on the research that i had done. The automatic paintings that i did were based on the works of Jackson Pollock, the automatic paintings that i did worked well as they look similar to Jackson Pollock's work. But for doing designs creating automatic paintings like this didn't work that well as i didn't have much control over where the paint was going and is hard to create any designs using this style.   

I then tried to control the paint more to try and create some costume designs for parade, trying to control the paint worked okay as the piece that i produce look interesting but as for designs they don't work very well as i still didn't have enough control over the paint.

Costume Marquette

I want to try out some of the designs that i had done for costumes for parade but without making a full scale costume. So i decided to make so small models to try out the ideas that i had. I made the marquette with simple materials so i could quickly make them just to see if they worked. I made them form wire which i then covered with fabric using glue and then just simply clipped the maquette to a Lindsey Lohan doll. The first one didn't work that well as the pattern that i was trying to recreate from the design didn't work very well in a physical form. The second one worked a lot better as the design was much simpler and the size of the costume was a lot more ambitious which makes the costume look better and impressive.

Automatic drawings 2

After looking at degenerate art i then started to do some more automatic drawings slightly inspired by degenerate art and artist. Instead of being totally automatic i decided to try and focus my designs on character from parade, first focusing on the american girl. Doing the designs like this worked okay but most of the designs tended to be slightly similar and aren't quite as good as some of the designs that i was producing when they were totally automatic. So i then decided to do my designs almost totally automatic as i was still focusing the designs to ward producing a costume for parade. Doing the designs like this worked well as they are more focused but are still very automatic, expressive and have lots of life to them. 

Automatic Drawings

After doing some contextual research into Bauhaus and artists that were involved in the movement i then did some automatic drawings taking inspiration from the research that i  did. I found it very hard to work in an automatic way at first as i couldn't switch of and not think about the thinks that i was drawing. But i then started to switch of and just get in to drawing, which i think show in the later designs as they are a lot more expressive and more interesting designs. The designs that i did once i had switch off and stopped thinking about what i was doing work really well as they could work as costumes for parade. Doing automatic drawings has work as it has given me quite a few strong design within a short space of time and most of the designs work well within the theme of the project parade.