Amy Lowe Honours Project

 I have finished two further illustrations: hibiscus and violet. The hibiscus illustration wa primarily insipred my Kali, a goddess in Hinduism. From what I read about her, she is portrayed as a being of chaos. However, in othe instances she is a divine mother who blesses people with one hand and deals punishment with the other. I found the contrast to be interesting so I made my character fairly masculine in a very feminine environment. Initial sketches My first idea was to have her in a gym First drawing of the composition I went with The phone charms were repurposed for her earings in the final Final draft Finished piece She is among nature since it felt wrong to keep her inside. She is having a picnic with dried hibiscus and hibiscus tea. On the embroidery there is the golden sun bird which is the insipiration for the emblem of Chengdu which is city in China. It is nicknamed the hibiscus city. This originated with Lord Mengchang, an aristocrat in Ancient China, ordered hibiscus...

I finished the aster illsutration last thursday.       The flower meaning that influenced my illustration the most was Love of variety. It personally reminded me of asexuality. Just to understand their sexuality, asexual people break down their experiences of love into categories. It’s important to do this because even though we don’t feel sexually attracted to others that doesn’t mean we are robots who can’t love at all.      Alongside the flower meanings, I found three stories that used the aster: two from Greek mythology and one Cherokee legend. The story that most inspired the direction I took was the myth of Astraea.      Astraea is the virgin goddess of innocence, justice, purity, and precision. In Greek mythology, there is a myth that once the gods lived amongst the people during the golden age. Over time, technology progressed during the bronze and iron ages. This resulted in the development of weapons and war and the gods fleein...

       Before I get into my recent work, I'll just acknowledge some stuff I did before Christmas that I didn't get round to posting about. I made adaptations of two works; The Seasons by Alphonse Mucha and Jimson Weed / White Flower no.1 by Georgia O'Keefe respectively: The Seasons Alphonse Mucha (1896) Jimson Weed / White Flower no.1 Georgia O'Keefe 1936     The idea was to study the pieces and to adapt them for my project concept to try and develop my ideas further. For The Seasons, I researched into flowers that grew in each season that also matched with the personalities I associated with them. I used crocus meaning cheerfulness for spring, snapdragon meaning presumption for summer, chysanthemum meaning condolences for autumn and snowdrop meaning hope for winter.       For White Flower no.1, I was already given a flower: datura meaning deception. O'Keeffe's work has been analysed as beeing representative of female sexuality; the flor...

I've done a few more of the group figure drawings. Firstly, heather and clover: They both have meanings associated with luck so I continued with the gambler idea that I used before. Also, heather has a double meaning of luck and protection. So for the latter part, I gave her some muscle and chunky but friendly facial features. Secondly, zinnia and jasmine: Both have meanings to do with friendship. Specifically, jasmine means amicability and cheerfulness and zinnia means everlasting friendship. I chose to leave this one largely unfinished because I think I need to move on from these kinds of drawings. I need to work out a way for this project to push me more. I'm go back to reading and research for a bit to see if I can get any ideas. Refernces Heather pose reference Clover pose reference Jasmine pose reference Zinnia pose reference

 I've done a couple drawings. I don't think that they push me forward that much but I'm a little stumped right now about my immediate next steps so it's better than not doing anything at all. First, I did a group drawing of clover, crocus and baby breath: They all mean innocence in some way so drawing them as a group felt appropriate. I was meaning for them to be sisters but it didn't really end up like that. My interpretation of daisy is different than before but I think this version fits better. I want to do more of these group shots. Secondly I did a drawing of clematis: I want to see how the Victorian style fashion fits with 60s style appliances. I think it's worked out okay but I need to do a test in colour before I'm certain. References Drawing one  reference one  and two Drawing two reference

 I finished my interior concept: I'm not particularly happy with it. I think there's still stuff I could do. The door in particular isn't blending in as well as I'd like. And I should include an artificial light source to contrast the natural light from the windows. But I think I need to move on so I'm choosing to leave it here. I do like the atmosphere that I got though. References Photo packs used HIGH RESOLUTION TEXTURE PHOTO PACK Art nouveau / building pack Ireland Reference Pack Medieval Village PNG Photo Pack: People

I managed to catch a cold so that halted my progress for a handful of days and then I had trouble getting back into the swing of things. I've managed to make some progress now though. I've started on an interior photobashed painting. I wasn't really sure how to to tackle it so I drew out a basic room top-down perspective room outline and tried to fit photos to it: Attempt 1 Attempt 2 I wasn't happy with these were looking. It didn't feel right. I went back to the drawing board and went researching for new photo packs and images that I could use. Eventually I decided to use an image of a room as a base and then layer on top clippings of other photos. Original photo Edited photo I also have a figure on a separate transparent layer. Separating the full edited photo into multiple worked out well last time so I'm doing it again. Figure image layer I was going to try and put in furniture but I think I just need to get this out of the way right now considering the dela...