My 2nd Mural

Designer: Calita Munro

Painters Reuben Munro and Calita Munro

This is my most recent mural we painted in a dark, seedy smokers area. It took us about 10 hours of painting, a worthwhile experience. It gave me an idea how long painting takes on such a big scale. We used about 5 different coloured test pots, to keep the material cost down.

Avatars winter style

A sequel to my designs I have posted from my ‘Fashion world’

Designer: Calita Munro

Model: Calita Munro

Photographer: Andrew Spencer

Recycled materials used: Stockings, Vacuum cleaner hose, Merino wool, wire, mussel shells, plastic support wire.

My intention was to make an outfit for the category, Aliens and Predators, in the Kaikoura Trash to Fashion show.  Win and hopefully beat the mother! The colour choice and the texture of the wool was very effective. I had no idea the colours would work so well together. The metallic blue paint stood out on stage. This is my favourite design so far. The movie inspired me to create something that an Avatar might wear. It did well winning the section, and came 2nd runner-up to supreme.

Image retrieved from: asphoto.co.nz

Wow Inspiration

She Looks good in a sack/ Cathy ‘tree’ Harris

Materials: Sacking, Hessian strapping.

I have uploaded a couple of designs that have inspired me from WoW (World of Wearable-arts) here in New Zealand.
This style caught my eye, as it is very avant-garde, and it shows something I haven’t seen before. I love that these designs make me wonder what they were made out of. In this outfit the designer has done a superb job of linking this whole look together, being modern and creative at the same time.

Lady Of the Wood, David Walker, United States

Materials: mahogany, maple, cedar

This 17th Century ball gown was made completely out of wood!
The Designer has gone to the next level, in reusing wood shavings for hair. It reminds me of an animated fairytale. Amazing craftsmanship I admire.

References:

Potton, C. (2009). The world of wearable arts (2nd edition.). New Zealand: Craig Potton publishing and the world of wearable arts. ltd.
Potton, C. (2011). Off the wall : the world of wearable arts: Craig Potton publishing and the world of wearable arts. ltd.

Self-portrait on patterned paper

Our last self-portrait lesson with Paula. With this lesson we could let loose and use our imagination and try to express ourselves in all different ways.

The main thing I was focussing on with this portrait is I didn’t want to take it too seriously, looking into more of my humorous silly side. Laughing is a huge factor in my life.

This was turning into a ‘to nice’ portrait, so trying something different with my art was pretty fun and exciting and that has really inspired me to be more creative with patterns and ideas I see around me. I love how my face is popping out of the paper but sinking at the same time. I really appreciate the effect It gave, only enhancing certain parts of my face.

Self-portrait on Sandpaper

Experimenting with drawing on sandpaper. A very rough texture to work with it just wore this pencil right down not much left of the old 4B now.

 

I put both pictures up to show the stages of working with sandpaper. Image on the left I used dramatic heavy dark lines: influenced by the look of a print I saw on Thursday. Appreciating that prints are simple but effective. I was wanting to emphasize the main feature lines on my face.

 I feel once I shook the paper from all the dust of the lead, it changed the feel of it, it lost the print like look I was going for, changed it, making it feel very young and youthful. I feel they both represent me in different ways, which I though was effective. The image on the left feels like my bold, dramatic talkative side and the image on the right shows my soft, caring sensitive side.

Assembalage Art on board

Turning trash into portraits! This is amazing! I am so inspired to create my portrait out of trash.

Zac Freeman’s artwork The use of found objects, disposable goods and leftover trash and then gluing to a wooden canvas. Reading though his website and blog, he uses the influence that consumables continue to change, new things are designed and the old chucked away. It is incredible how well he has captured the lines with the use of different coloured trash. I feel I connected with the way Zac Freeman views trash and recycled products – using them and incorporating a statement into his art.

Some recycled products that he uses: Washers,  screws, computer printer cartridges, puzzle pieces, buttons, caps, rings, keys, Lego, plastic toys, chains, cassettes. etc.

Zac Freeman. (n.d.). Retrieved from  http://zacfreemanart.com/wordpressengine/blog/

My First Mural

Designer: Calita Jensen

Year: 2006

I had the opportunity to paint this garage wall, on such a large scale canvas, I couldn’t turn it down. For me I was inspired purely by the wave. I’ve always lived beside the ocean, west and East coast of New Zealand. I grew up watching the surf.

Sketches in class

Top Left Fig.: Blind drawing – Oh my gosh this was all so much fun.  It was challenging  I left the green tape so you could see how I felt my way around my face while drawing. It was a pretty interesting exercise. The lines I made felt too dark and harsh looking a little too masculine for what I wanted. It makes me laugh how I have four eyes.

Top Right Fig.: Self portrait – I started this drawing with pencil first, but then decided to experiment with using colours that wouldn’t normally be. I emphasised colour in this portrait, but when I chose it I was pretty pissed off so to me I can see a lot of my emotions in this self-portrait. I’m not fully convinced with this drawing, especially with the hand  through the hair it just doesn’t feel right, like I haven’t focused on pressure points on the arm.

Bottom Fig.: Life drawing – Half hour sketch and the last drawing we did as a class. I was more distinctive with my lines, and I tried not to sketch too scratchy with the charcoal and focussed more on long, full, dark lines. I swapped views, this was the only drawing from this angle. It was pretty challenging, missing the view of her feet. I was a bit gutted at first missing the full body but when I took a step back I though it was the most flattering, modest angle. Her tummy was a little smaller than I drew it. But overall, I’m stoked with my results with working on perspective and the bodies proportions.

My First Design

I’m in the process of uploading my photos, of me growing up, in what I call my fashion world.

Here Is my very first fashion catwalk, modelling my very own design.

I remember how excited I was, making this garment embellished with walnut shells and leaves, glued to plastic hand-made pants, and spray painted bronze.  I was inspired to make a design out of recycled products. When I look back, it is very creative, and I even had quite good style back in 1999.  The costume stayed intact and achieved an armour/warrior look which was my original intention.