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AS Exam Board 5 - This is the final piece which was produced by using a Compressed Black Set of charcoal, a Specialist watercolor palette, a black 0.5 mm PIGMA MICRON pen, a 1.0 mm Silver Pen-Touch marker, an HB graphite pencil, and a 0.7 mm lead pencil, black paper, white paper, cream paper, and marbled paper that was marbled by ink. The first ¼ contains the cutlery that was bent in unusual ways and the last ¼ contains cutlery melting into noodles.
AS Exam Board 4 - Disfigured, Alessi-inspired, and flower shaped cutlery objects.
AS Exam Board 3 - I boiled plastic cutlery in oil and water, used marbled paper as a background and drew a spoon balancing over mirror that curves upwards in the center.
AS Exam Board 2 - From "EAT ME" written on cutlery to cutlery melting into spaghetti and cutlery sculpture with aluminum foil, it's all there.
AS Exam Board 1 - An observational study of the cutlery that I use daily.
AS Coursework Board 5 - This is the final piece which portrays how when people and I listen to music, we feel as though we travel to a different world. Rene Magritte helped inspire this piece with one of his surrealistic pieces. On the newspaper, sunrise was depicted to symbolize how listening, playing, or writing music creates new beginnings even if in reality (the background) the sun is setting and the day is coming to an end.
AS Coursework Board 4.5 - This collage was produced by using the following materials: Inscribe (chalk) Pastels, foil box covers, & regular papers. Paints: polymer, acrylic, gouache, & ready mix paints. I’ve layered some of the papers with PVA glue to create a glossy effect. This is another one of Vladimir Kush’s surrealistic pieces: “Still Life With Mandolin”. It incorporates both the themes fantasy and music with Kush’s ability to realize the similarity in shape between a pear and a mandolin.
AS Coursework Board 4.4 - I drew squares to focus on a few places in my piece in which I will experiment by using different mediums. The inside of the squares was colored while the outside was sketched in B&W. The materials used: Top right square: A Specialist watercolor palette & HB Graphite pencil, the square in the middle to the left: Inscribe (chalk) Pastels & HB pencil, bottom right square: 12 Derwent skintone watercolour pencils & HB pencil, & bottom left square: A blue Ballpoint pen.
AS Coursework Board 4.3 - This is my right hand which was created using 12 Derwent skintone watercolour pencils. Both this piece and the next one were inspired by the wooden material of my violin and the color shades of both my violin and recorder. The images of wood grains on Google inspired the textures and shapes in my pieces. I created these hands in this way to show how when playing a musical instrument, the body of the musician and the instrument they are playing become one with the music.
AS Coursework Board 4.2 - This is the piece that was mentioned in the last description which is of my left hand which was produced by using shading pencils and a Specialist watercolor palette.
AS Coursework Board 4.1 - I created this (practice for board 5) piece of the top of my head (primary source) by using a Specialist watercolor palette and a Twinkle Jewel Seal Sticker as my hair pin.
AS Coursework Board 3.6-Watercolor palette, black 0.1 Fine Line Uni-Pin,& brown Staedtler triplus fineliner pen. Inspired by my Classic music sketch. Forest-photograph taken in Azerbaijan, ballerinas-Google. I added wings to the ballerinas=they’re reaction to music makes them seem like they’re flying while dancing. Walking through a forest=the confusion formed when listening to different types of Classic music at once. This piece has lots of circular paint strokes=inspired by my tiny dot doodle.
AS Coursework Board 3.5 - This piece was inspired by Vladimir Kush’s Horn. It was produced by using red ink, Daler Rowney watercolor paint, an HB graphite pencil, a black 0.8 & 0.1 Fine Line Uni-Pin Pen and Gouache paint. I developed the horn by reforming it into the three musical instruments that were studied in board 1. This piece shows how music creates civilizations by bringing them together and this is also shown by the horn spilling out houses and people.
AS Coursework Board 3.4 - When I was in London, I liked how cloudy the sky was and so I took this photograph which I am now using to develop my Classical music sketch. I developed the sketch by drawing ballerinas dancing and jumping on clouds to show how music can improve people’s moods. In the original sketch, there was a winged ballerina, so I took the idea of ballerinas being able to fly and decided to put them on clouds. Materials:Watercolor palette, a black 0.8 & 0.1 Fine Line UniPin Pen.
AS Coursework Board 3.3 - This piece was inspired by a La Perle musician found in my La Perle brochure (secondary source). It was recreated by using Gouache and Spray Fabric Paint. The reason I sprayed the background was to show how the musician is splattering paint in different sizes and shapes as she plays her instrument, the violin, in different pitches.
AS Coursework Board 3.2 - This is a La Perle dervish which was produced by using Gouache paint and a black 0.8 Fine Line Uni-Pin Pen. A dervish is someone guiding a Sufi Muslim ascetic down a path and is known to practice Dhikr through physical exertions. Their most common practice is Sama which is displayed in my piece. This shows how different people/cultures respond to music. I chose the color blue for the background because of how it’s considered to be a spiritual color.
AS Coursework Board 3.1 - These three streaks of paint were created by using acrylic, gouache, polymer, watercolor, and metallic gold paint while listening to music to show how music affects the way I my hand moves the brush by affecting my mood.
AS Coursework Board 2.8 - This piece was inspired by a surreal artist named Michael Cheval (artist/secondary source – webneel.com 23/10/17). I first drew the outline of the piano on white paper then I cut it out and stuck it onto black paper. I then incorporated the Marbling technique into this piece by using multiple ink colors to emphasize on how music causes me to feel many different emotions at once.
AS Coursework Board 2.7 - I was inspired to draw a swan ballerina while listening to Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky (Classic music) because his music is so soft, dreamy and magical and it reminded me of the delicacy of ballerinas and how they resemble swans in their movements. This was created by merging the body of the ballerina (secondary source – Google 21/09/17) with photographs of swans that I took in London. This piece shows how music inspires the mind to think of fantasy creatures.
AS Coursework Board 2.6 - This is a direct observation of my piano. It was drawn by using a white pencil on black paper. I added surrealism into my piece by melting a part of my piano like how Salvador Dali, a surreal artist, melted the clocks in his piece: ‘The Persistence Of Memory’.
AS Coursework Board 2.5 - I used red, green, blue, purple, and black Ballpoint pens to create another doodle piece of how music makes me feel. One of the doodles is of a girl with a hot air balloon body (secondary source - my La Perle brochure 6/12/17). This represents how high/happy I feel while listening to Electronic music.
AS Coursework Board 2.4 - I wanted to put my feelings while listening to music onto paper and so I thought of Marbling due to how the colors mix smoothly with one another with just the help of a toothpick. I chose the colors to match the mood of different songs and created multiple pieces. I used ink and water for all the pieces except two in which I used oil to experiment and create different outcomes.
AS Coursework Board 2.3 - This piece was created by using ink, Johnson’s baby oil, oil pastels, a black 0.8 Fine Line Uni-Pin Pen, different sized feathers, different types of sponge, toothpicks, and a nail brush. The music is emerging from the Tabla to show how instruments are usually needed to create music. I also added an Arabic newspaper in the background to reinforce the Arabian culture feel. Andre Breton’s “Constellations" (1959) was also an inspiration to create this abstract piece.
AS Coursework Board 2.2 - This is an art piece which was inspired by a Leonid Afremov piece (artist/secondary source). The bright vivid colors represent upbeat pop music while my addition of black marks (created by dragging a card & a toothpick) represent creepy classic music. This creates a strong yet beautiful contrast in my piece. The materials used to create this piece were Daler Rowney watercolor paint and Metallic Gold paint.
AS Coursework Board 2.1 - This piece was inspired by my IDM sketch which contained a hanging pocket watch. I took the idea of time and drew clocks (primary source) inside musical notes that I sent floating down the waterfall. The reason that I used a waterfall and not a large body of water is because waterfalls move into streams and rivers and around again like the “cycle of life” and this shows how music helps move time faster/slower depending on the rhythm of the track I’m listening to.