Old Photographs

The next part of the project was to concentrate on a strand of research that we uncovered while looking at our chairs. I kept finding old photos of people using wicker furniture, as they were commonly used in photographer's studios.

These photos are some of the photos I developed further. There are more that I liked but didn't develop as much on my flickr.

Japanese Art

Some images of Japanese art that inspired the second half of the Chair project

Different uses for the Wicker Chair.

I didn't really get much done at the beginning of the chair project, it was a very image-creating heavy task, and this was where all my tutors said that I was working too hard on producing one image, and taking too long. I think I still have that problem. I find that when I work roughly and quickly, I don't put as much thought into my work and it becomes basic and boring.

Wicker- Dress

Wicker - Sledge

A Garden - Chair
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Drawings from researching the Wicker chair.

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The Chair project.

And so i get around to the start of the dreaded Chair project. I chose to research the Wicker Chair.

This was probably partly infleunced by my trip to New England, which of course is full of wicker chairs.

Below are some photos of some lovely old wicker chairs that were on a terrace of one of the HUGE houses built in New England, by rich Americans in the late 1800's /early 1900's.

And these are some simple wicker chairs i found in the Garden room at the Geffrye Museum.

Bits.

This is a piece of Annette Messager's work I saw in Paris:

And this is an Art Deco Teaset I found in the Geffrye Museum.

I really love the colours and design.

I used to really love the Geffrye Museum when i was younger, when I went back to look at it, though, it wasn't as special as I remembered. I preferred the more modern rooms.
My favourite was the Turn of the Century room (below). I assume this is what my family home would have looked like at some point. (in the past, before we owned it, obviously)

Red Ettin Images

These are some of the images i produced for the Red Ettin story. My best was the old lady below, but the others don't have the subtlety I wanted to achieve. I was really irritated with how they turned out, i think i was trying to achieve too much in one image. I think the orginal sketches are more interesting.

I do like the monster's face though.