Snooker fox (Banksy style)

Below is my recreation of a Banksy styled stencil art piece which I edited on photoshop. It is a fox playing pool, I got this idea from the position of what the fox is in with its paws making it look like it should be holding a pool cue. I changed the opacity on parts of it aswell, for example, on the window. You can also see the bricks and the glass through the fox.

BANKSY

Banksy is a well known british street artist and is most known for his work with stencils. He is also a person he is very secretive which shows, as he has made sure that he has a hidden identity.

This is an example for one of Banksy's stencil art works. I chose this one because I like what he has done with this art work, as you would expect the flowers to be a molotov. The stencil work is amazing and really caught my eye.

More extended project ideas

I now have another idea for the extended project which is to work in a pair with Louis to make little stuffed toys of people in our class. We got this idea from making a stuffed toy of our teacher 'Nick'. As a team we managed to pull together a good reconstruction of our teacher.

I think if we did this idea the down side to it would be the fact that it would take a whole day to do every different stuffed toy as we found out when we were making the Nick toy.

Although we would have to find a quicker way round things I think that this idea is very good and it could get us a lot of marks, as long as we do alot of research on stuffed toys.

2012 original and remake poster

Here is the original and my remake version of the 2012 movie poster. I am happy with my remake, because instead of the original structure I have replaced it with big ben and have added effects to make it look more realistic.

Original:

Remake:

I think that my remake version looks really cool and i did this all in photoshop by adding effects and using the tools. I used the curves action which can change the colour and mix the colours all in together. I also put some of the water layer on top of big ben so it looked as if some of the water was covering big ben. I also changed the auto levels, auto colours, and auto contrast.

I really enjoyed this task we could get any poster we wanted and make it in to what ever we wanted it to be.

bibliography 3

Title: The making of landscapes photographs

Author: Charlie Waite

Place of publication: London

Year of publication: 1992

Published by: Collins and Brown

Why did you chose this book? Because of the title

What made you pick it up? The front cover

What made you take it out? The pictures inside

Give a brief summary of what you think the book is about?

How do you think it will help with your XP?

bibliography 2

Title: Photo Art

Author: Uta Grosenick and Thomas Seelig

Place of publication: London

Year of publication: 2008

Published by: Thames and Hudson

Why did you chose this book? Because the landscapes which I saw inside look like they could inspire me.

What made you pick it up? At the front it said photography and the picture looked cool.

What made you take it out? I wanted a book which showed some art aswell as landscapes.

Give a brief summary of what you think the book is about? I think that this book is stating the obvious and is all about 'Photo Art'.

How do you think it will help with your XP? I think it could give me inspiration on how to position building landscapes.

Bibliography 1

Title: France

Author: Michael Busselle

Place of publication: London

Year of publication: 1996

Published by: Pavilion books limited

Why did you chose this book? Because my ideas are based upon landscapes and although the pictures are taken in France these are the types of landscapes I am looking for.

What made you pick it up? The front cover picture.

What made you take it out? I looked at the pictures inside the book and they fitted my idea.

Give a brief summary of what you think the book is about? I think it is about landscapes and nature in the french countryside.

How do you think it will help with your XP? I think that this book will help me to understand more about landscapes in other countries, so when I go abroad landscape visions will make more sense.

My view on the Saatchi Gallery

When we went to the Saatchi gallery in London I was thinking that it would be very boring because of past experiences of going to galleries and muesiums, but I actually found the Saatchi gallery to be quite cool and interesting. I really enjoyed looking ayt very odd and unusual paintings and sculptures. As I walked into the gallery the first thing I saw inside of the gallery was the oil art work. When I first saw it I was very confused and didn't understand what it was, but once I got told that it was oil reflecting off whats on the ceiling, I then understood what it was, which made me become very interested in it and I wanted to know more about it. A quote which I found from 'Chmie Reid' was "Today, art is much more varied and reflects the diverse and complex nature of the world more broadly" I think that this sums up the oil work completely.

As I was walking round it wasn't just these strange things that were interesting me, it was also strange paintings that got me looking around. One of these paintings was a swan with a human hand, I liked this very much because it is odd and unusual so I picked up on this art work. One quote that represents this is from 'Phoebe Unwin' which says "I'm interested in painting things that can not necessarily be seen..." and this painting can not be seen in the way that it is out of the ordinary.

Overall, the Saatchi gallery was a great inspiration for me and I enjoyed most of the day looking around at lots of different modern day YBA (young british art), but I agree with 'Sigrid Holmwood' when she says "YBA art seemed to be pointing its finger at you..." meaning it is almost aimed at younger people to be influenced by, but I would rather be influenced by an artist like Picasso when it comes to starting an arrt project and being inspired by art.

My analysis on Eugenie Scrace's Trunkated Trunk

Why is it art?

I think that this is seen as art because she was the first person to see it as being art. I think that this is very unusual and the fact that she bought it off the counsil is another thing because she must have looked at it and analysed it for a while and then said to herself, this is art.

Is it good or bad art?

In my opinion this is bad art because I don't see the creativity behind it as she didn't actually make it, she just bought it, looked at it, and then must have said 'This is art'. I can never look at this and say 'wow' this is great art, because it has been found by someone, not actually made by someone. On the other hand, my friend Liam says that it is good art because even though it has been found by her and not actually created by her, she has seen the artistic side to it so that is all that matters, which I think is a fair arguement.

Does it matter?

I don't think that it really matters, because it is actually quite interesting to see what other people see as being art, and this piece is a great example for this.