Birmingham Art Trip - Birmingahm Gallery

Below are images that were taken from the Birmingham art gallery. This was the only art gallery out of the 3 that linked with my own personal theme 'war' so they are what my photos are based around:

These were buildings/landmarks that I seen between the different galleries.

This was the final gallery that we went to and it was also the best for my theme and from the gift shop I picked up a WW1 replica which is going to be great when doing my work.

My trip to nuneaton museum and art gallery

For my own personal angle on the current theme we are doing (memories, time, fade and traces) I like to thing this links very well with war which is also my own chosen theme. I went to the museum and art gallery in Riversley park, Nuneaton. When I was out I took several photographs all of things that linked with war and some of these were paintings, objects and statues all things that I could then go onto to draw. Below are some of the photographs that I took: 

This was a poppy that was on a statue.

This is the statue where the poppy was engraved. This is was a war memorial for the first and also the second world war.

This is a statues of a solider from the war holding a rifle.

These are medals from different wars. The medal on the left is service for the Iraq war. On the right was a medal awarded to the Nato Alliance Forces in the former Yugoslavia since 1994.

These are different weapons used in the war for example canon balls and guns.

This is a painting of a solider that had been into war.

These are the clothes the men would wear in the first world war.

This is a picture of people wearing gas masks because when the was happening there was a lot of different toxins in the air that could kill you so people wore these to be able to keep clean and breathe easy.

This is a uniform that a solider would wear.

These a paintings were of the homes and villages during the war.

These were the helmets the soldiers had to wear during the first world war.

These were the gas masks that the adults and children had to wear over their faces during the war when it was happening to keep them safe.

Tissue paper collage

In class we did 3 different collages. one was news paper and the other two were in tissue paper but I used two different colours to make them relate to my own personal theme. 

Red tissue paper collage: 

Firstly, I ripped up small pieces of red tissue paper and layered them up onto the page using glue.

I then covered the newspaper in emulsion and moved some of the tissue paper and left it to dry but because tissue paper is very thin it takes a lot longer to dry.

This was the tissue paper after the emulsion had dried.

Finally, I used charcoal to draw on this tissue paper but this time it was a lot more rough and edgy.

I did the same thing with the green tissue paper:

Overall, I think theses collages went alright and I liked the different textures that each material caused. 

Composition

composition: 

In art composition is the way the drawings or photographs are made up of things to put them all together. This can be things like different angels or the dark and light areas. 

The google definition of composition is:  

In the visual arts—in particular painting, graphic design, photography, and sculpture—composition is the placement or arrangement of visual elements or ingredients in a work of art

, as distinct from the subject of a work. (click on the definition above to go to google and see the definition there.)