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Semester One Elam 2011 Part 2

2011-06-18T11:41:00.009+12:00

A couple of works I did in the second half of semester.

Because I have a massive boner for archaeology, I decided to shift from medical illustrations to archaeological drawings as the basis for this work. I sat on the floor in the university general library for two hours looking for books of theory/illustration and eventually came away with a stack of books full of the most aweome shit ever.

The first drawing is based off an field drawing of an infant skeleton found in Aude, France. Size A0, 8B pencil with gilded background. The second image shows the set-up I used for presentation. I made everything, including the wee nameplate (text photoetched into a steel plate with forced corrosion from spray fixative).
[I apologise for the iffy quality of the photos - i took them while the drawing was set up on the floor and it was near impossible to get a good angle and clear image together]

This second set of images are of a large (A0) watercolour drawing.
One of the books I found in the library was a case study of a proto-neolithic cemetary found in the Zagros Mountains of Iraq called Shanidar Cave. It had descriptions of varying detail of each of the 26 graves found within the cave (without images), and I decided to try and depict each grave as I understood it from the descriptions, inspired by the work of Isodor Engel. Time constraints and the (sometimes very) limited amount of information I had on each grave were responsible for the vague, cartoony style of the skeletons. I had also never used watercolour before this, and it took a lot of getting used to.

Details:

There are a couple more works for me to post, I just have to get around to photographing them properly. With any luck I should be able to update within the week.

Semester One Elam 2011

2011-04-04T17:43:00.015+12:00

Beautiful, beautiful bones.

The first thing I made for this project (Self Portrait, because old habits die hard):

Vertebrae studies:

Both formative pieces are A0 size on cream coloured paper, and the background of the second piece is painted with gilding paint. Detail shots below give a much better idea of what they actually look like. Please remember to have a look at those too.

Formative finals:

Details:

Semester Two Elam 2010

2010-11-08T10:59:00.005+13:00

Thought I ought to update, so here's the final work I did for my fields of practice paper (etching) for semester 2 2010. I have heaps more work to post over the next few days so if anyone actually watches this thing, keep an eye out.

Semester One Elam 2010, first half

2010-05-14T12:30:00.006+12:00

My given subject was clothing, and I chose to work with animal stoles/skins. It evolved into what looks like a very anti-animal product series, but I didn't intend it to turn out that way. I don't mind animal skin.

Large scale finished works from 2009

2010-05-14T12:19:00.006+12:00

Photography project for Elam 2009

2010-05-14T12:14:00.005+12:00

2010-05-14T11:17:00.002+12:00

So according to Roi, I should start a visual blog. I told him I don't feel like I produce enough work to justify having a whole blog dedicated to it, but he said I should make one anyway. I've never been very good at things like this, and I'm still not entirely sure what it is I'm supposed to be doing here, so for now, enjoy the incoming image dump.