AuriolB | Ravensbourne Access \ Design

 A clear direction for the project: what to develop further Discover My objective is to find a way of visually portraying the passing of the seasons in a familiar place ― somewhere that a wide-ranging audience can identify as ‘home’. Define As an illustrator and storyteller, I will use the character of a bear so that we see the world through his eyes. Develop I want to bring natural colours, textures and perhaps even found objects into the illustration. Deliver I will create an illustrated calendar with drawings taking elements from nature.

This week I began a new design process | learned how to sew a yoke, a placket, a box pleat and   attach a collar | experimented with layering colour into black & white illustration on Photoshop | played with paint Design Process : Identify Briefed to identify three places to respond to over the next three weeks, I explored the Cutty Sark; Charlton Park and my garden at home. In my practice for three years now I have consciously responded to the changing seasons, especially as they are reflected in the signs of nature. In the process of my preparation for this project, I’ve been able to draw on the extensive research from that time as well as collating sketches, studies and photographs. This has led me to identify my garden and local park as the place to inspire my design process; and more specifically the elements I can see of the changing seasons in trees plants wildlife and weather. I find it helpful to gather the disparate pieces of work photographic research and inspiratio

This week I surprised myself by learning to sew a collar, complete with stand | created a gif and practiced Photoshop skills | enjoyed the play of light and colour on the Ravensbourne building | Submitted my Exhibition Review assignment, complete with Harvard Referencing ― see below . . . Exhibition Review (finding and reading information) THE COURTAULD | Exhibition Review Auriol Bishop 18 November 2022 Whose gaze do we share when we look at art? Treachery and lechery at The Courtauld. For a gallery claiming to be the home of enlightenment, The Courtauld holds some pretty dark shadows. https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2022/event/soheila-sokhanvari-rebel-rebel Wild at Heart (Portrait of Pouran Shapoori), 2019, egg tempera with squirrel-hair brush on calf vellum  The Love Addict (Portraits of Googoosh), 2019, egg tempera on calf vellum The Star, 2022, Perspex two-way mirrors, wood, metal, plastic and electronics Earlier in the week of my visit, I had one of those un

Back in college this week, a beautiful sunset caught my eye in the library | I spent some time experimenting | learning how to underpin everything with research, to look closely  ― and always clearly reference sources (Detail from Lewis, W , c.1921 PRAXITELLA [oil paint on canvas] | Staircase displays Brown, C. 2021 Unmoored From Her Reflection ) . . . Experiments in visual language Inspired by Access alumna showing us her sketchbooks, I took advantage of time at home on Thursday morning enforced by train strikes, playing in the pages of my sketchbook, taking her advice to think about different ways to communicate. . . . > continue experimenting with techniques, materials > as though tutors are clients ― it’s all good practice Embracing Harvard Referencing :  I’ve long loved a spreadsheet as a way of recording and marshalling information, so can’t resist creating a Harvard Referencing grid to catalogue my Gallery visit. Details shown here are my collection of animals spott

With no classes this week, I took the opportunity to do some research and development for my personal projects, thinking about my visual language, style and the skills I want to refine. . . . Illustrated storybook I brought together sketches and some stock images with the text to map out a first draft storyboard. This has helped me to see where the text needs tightening up and refining, and to start develop my thinking around how words and pictures will work together to enhance the emotion and arc of the story.   . . . Creating moodboards with a focus on colour palettes brought inspiration for the next three stories I want to write in a quartet about the seasons. I like the idea of each book having a restricted colour palette of natural hues and creating a progression through a colour gradient from the beginning of the book to the end. . . . I hope to develop my InDesign and Illustrator skills to be able to design and illustrate my own text. Research and discovery : My Neig