Tuesday:
So in the morning to prepare for my collage work, I collected research on artists who worked in collage, which can be found in my book and then using my research I have since been working on my own collages in my book and on stretched paper.
My first collage I did is in reference to classic comic onomatopoeia bubbles that became popular from the 60s Batman tv show. I collected some previews catalogs for my work and then arranged them working on the colours from orange to green. I then glued the white lettering on and cut out the black boarders.
I plan on adding Ben-Day dots to the white to give the background some detail and as a reference to other artists who have used this like Roy Lichenstein.
Wednesday:
In the morning we looked at composition in our collages by doing an exercise looking at how to structure our piece using geometric shapes, experimenting with different backgrounds and layouts which we will then apply to a bigger collage using our base of work.
In the afternoon for graphics we continued working on our illustrator piece, I added a gradient and a repeat pattern, my work for this can be found here
http://www.luketomlinsongraphicstownscape.blogspot.co.uk/
In the afternoon because I had finished my Tracy Emin work for my homework, I put my work in my folder and helped others with their work. (I also disabled a virus that was on one of the laptops, but that's irrelevant)
Friday:
Friday I kinda juggled my tasks, in the morning I began by creating my bigger collage based on my designs using black card, newspaper and red card but because I had to keep waiting for the glue to dry I was also working on researching the history of comic books because I plan on putting a timeline of significant events in my sketch book. I then contnued working on my collage by gluing comic books and characters onto my collage to link into my theme. (no pics yet because it was still wet)
Homework:
I created a collage in my book yesterday which I made to reflect the journey of imagination to a comic book reader. Starting at the top left corner at the comic shop, then onto comics themselves, into the panels and then the characters represent imagination itself. I chose the most fantastical panel to cut out to reflect the power of imagination.
I also have been thinking about ideas to do for my collage and came up with:
Using Nazi comic book character to form a swastika
Combining War time comics with real photos from the war
Painting an American flag over a photomontage of patriotic american comic covers
And I was thinking for my final collage, to look at the comic code authority, Dr. Frederick Wertham's "Seduction of the Innocent" and the ideas he talks about in his book to say why comics are bad for children.
