Kat's Art
I'm a 18 year old Art and Design student studying BTEC National Diploma Level 3 in Art and Design.
My hobbies are art making, reading, creative writing, watching movies and listening to music.
I hope to pursue a career in Graphic Design/Illustration/Advertising/Media and hopefully one day write/illustrate a few novels or novelettes.
Haven't really fixed on one career choice yet!
This is my official professional tumblr used as a portfolio for my body of work;
for my personal blog go to http://filthylittleoptimist.tumblr.com
although I must warn you it's quite strange!
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And the mini-comic with some of them in it (not this one) is available here!
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Bubbles at the Beach
bubbles that don’t pop on a rock at Southend Beach
this was meant to represent how a few can stand together, stronger as a group than if they were alone, against the oncoming night, and also the passing of time and transience of life
The Hannah Werning style mural collaboratively done by the first year South Essex GAD students, the first photograph shows the long shot of the mural, which can be found in Southend Victoria shopping centre, next to the toilets.
The second photograph is of my group’s little section yellow-orange. Each person chose their native-to-Essex flora and fauna and was in charge of their board, but we had to work in the groups using the given colour scheme. The two middle boards were entirely done by me, as one of our group members could not come in for the duration of the mural painting, and I also had to work closely with the other two members of my group.
This was created last year, in June
Various life drawings capturing the movement of two dancers who freestyle danced to movie soundtracks for our class
1st drawing - ink on a stick and ink on a Chinese brush
I am pleased with this but I feel that I should have used the ink on a stick more as I like the thin, scratchy quality of the line better
2nd and 3rd drawings - blue, purple and white compressed chalk and charcoal on black paper.
I like the second as there is a good flow between each drawing, thanks to the use of two chalks at once as it enabled me to capture more of the figure in a more fluid motion.
The third drawing consists of more figurative based sketches, which took more time.
4th and 5th drawings- blue and purple compressed chalks on white.
For these drawings I also used both chalks at once, to achieve the fluid, layered look. However the main difference between these two drawings and the rest are that I did these completely blind- both times the drawing surface was completely covered as I drew the figures, leading to this layered up chaos.
Life Drawings- Foreshortening
two pencil and compressed white chalk drawings of the same subject from two different angles
‘No Place Like London’ Paper-craft, print and T-shirt
Brief- ‘Adaptations’
This piece is an adaptation of the film ‘Sweeney Todd; The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’ which itself is a story which has been adapted many times, from a Penny Dreadful in the Victorian era, to plays, musicals, films and such. For the task we had to choose a film to adapt into paper-craft, and I chose this film as it has already been adapted to become what it is and I particularly like the film.
I took the iconic image of the main character, Sweeney Todd, and tried to make the shading of his clothing look like blood dipping down; then I incorporated one of my favourite quotes from a song in the film ‘There’s no place like London’, and other imagery that relates to the film- a pie, Mrs.Lovett, the houses of Parliament, a barbers blade and a bird cage.
After finishing the paper-craft I then used it as a stencil, by taping it to a silkscreen, and took prints from it which nearly destroyed the paper-craft itself. I then photographed one of the better prints and edited slightly on Photoshop before turning it into a smaller A4 silkscreen which I then used to print my design onto the t-shirt shown above.
I really like it and a few of my friends have already asked for a t-shirt for themselves, so this may be something I sell in the future =3
This piece inspired and informed my final pieces for this project
Life drawing
Three different studies based on different angles of the same subject, using different toned paper for each one.
Charcoal, pencil and compressed white and yellow chalk.
I am heavily inspired by music, so here are two photos of K’noup, the singer for an amazing band who combine a variety of influences into their sound. I saw them live for the second time at Borderline (a really teeny, cosy little venue near Leceister Square in London) and I took these photos of this lovely man =3 <3
my final pieces for the ‘Adaptations’ Brief
These are photographs of two paper-crafts
I have chosen two different lyrics, from two different songs by the same band, from the same album (City of Evil by Avenged Sevenfold) to adapt and I have combined these lyrics with two different classic Disney characters who I feel correspond well with the lyrics.
The first is the villain, Scar, from The Lion King, and the lyric I have paired him with is ‘Hatred fuels my blood, I’ll burn you down. One king to watch the horsemen fall’ from the song Burn it down, and I have surrounded him with flames as he kills his brother, the king, in the flames to gain the throne and out of jealousy and hatred, and he ends up in the flames himself, at the end of the film. The part about the Horsemen relates to how he commands the hyenas like an army and how he watches the lionesses he is king of suffering and dying of starvation because of his poor leadership.
The second paper-craft is of the Beast, from the Disney film Beauty and the Beast, and the lyric I have chosen is ‘He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man’ from the song Bat Country. This lyric is actually quoted from a film, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, based on a book of the same name, but the author took this quote from an 18th century author so this has been adapted many times. I felt it went well with the beast as a character as the beast is only in the situation that he is in (a man in the form of a beast, isolated from society) because of his own selfishness. I made him look more scary by adding more, sharper, bloodstained teeth, bigger horns and wilder fur and I have surrounded him by the roses and their stems as it is an important feature of the film- the rose alone holds the key to this redemption.
I’m really pleased with the level of detail I managed to achieve with these pieces =3
/unashamedly long descriptions for my work
Brief- UAL Printmaking Award
Theme - Subcultures
base layer- brusho inks on the paper
second layer- three silhouettes masked, with yellow printed over the top
third layer- a further two silhouettes added with red printed over the top
fourth layer- additional three silhouettes added before printing the final blue layer of ink over the top
I then removed all of the silhouettes to reveal the final print.
Final piece for the ‘Structures’ Brief
it was approximately 6 foot high and a few feet wide, made entirely using inflated balloons and clear glue.
Locations: a tunnel near Laindon shopping centre and a pathway leading to the tunnel
The idea behind this piece was to capture the feeling of childhood within my structure, hence deciding to use balloons as my building material instead of say wood or paper. I wanted to contrast this brightly coloured fun piece by placing it in a darker, more adult scenario; the pathway I chose is dark and wooded, somewhere that I haven’t often seen children walking through, especially not alone. The tunnel however is often used by parents walking their children to and from school in the morning and afternoon, but of an evening it is often frequented by teenagers and adults that are drug using, smoking or drinking.
I felt these two rather bleak, grimy, adult places were a good contrast to my balloon sculpture so overall I am quite pleased with the final photos.
