Hello!

okay, so I tried uploading a video, but it failed. so bad.

As I mentioned, there was an Art Exhibition at our School. They had up many of the GCSE students work, including mine. All four of my final pieces and two of my books set out. Large white panels, mostly with one panel to a person, or two people's work on one panel. Yeah, well, my work had two panels 'cause they're so freaking huge. This one, my final piece for natural forms, was my first canvas on paint I've ever done. I don't like paint that much, so I'm not proud of this whatsoever. I don't know what I was doing with it tbh, just that the fans have natural scenes on and it relates to a Japanese Mangaka, and Claude Monet. Somehow. Monet has a piece where his wife, I believe, is wearing a kimono with a man on, and lots of flowers. I changed this to an anime character, Sakura from Naruto, and added 3D fans with chalk designs on. Not my best, I know. But, it works.

My second final piece, and possibly one of my favourites. This took up its own panel because it was so big: made out of two large pieces of foamboard, all covered with photographs of clouds that I've taken, in the style of... uh... David Hockney! Then, of course, the man to represent Human Forms, the second project. His veins and lungs are visible because I also studied Damien Hurst, famous for his statue of a pregnant woman, her skin peeling away so you can see past the muscle into her belly, where the baby is. With this, you can see past his skin and jacket to see his blackened lungs. Blackened Lungs, you say? Familiar, you say? Well, the lyrics surrounding my man (Gerald, I called him) are from a song by Panic! At The Disco, called London Beckoned Songs About Money Written By Machines. On the background, you can see the lyrics do with the weather, hence the link to the clouds. And he's also got fire on his tongue, another lyric in the song: "I'm burning and I'm blacking my lungs, but you know it feels good with fire back on your tongue."

This one is another favourite of mine. For the project, "Barriers". It's kind of hard to explain: I focused my coursework on transport, a barrier to keep people dry when travelling. Hence the black London taxi cab. But, the reflection on the window is another, less noticeable barrier. The cab is acting as a barrier between social status: the street is run down, lower class, and the person in the taxi comes from a higher class, therefore kept seperate from the street. Make sense? The odd colour is influenced by Sonia Delauney, known for abstract, colourful print patterns.

The last project we had to do, as you've seen me post about before, was "I, Me, Mine". I didn't really focus on artists with this topic as much as I should have, but my final piece is a mix of everything to do with me and memories. The notes hold dreams [one of me meeting Brendon Urie, another of meeting Gabe Saporta, which actually happened!] and the crowd of people behind, the music coming forth~ etc. I like it. :)